<div dir="auto">Reading today's Missoulian article on the problem of U.S wine producers running into huge tariffs in China, I again reflect on the fact that this whole world trade mentality should be abandoned by all in the face of climate change. What is more ridiculous than transporting US wine to China while importing wine from Australia, France, Italy, Etc. While we all supposedly try to reduce fossil fuel consumption, it seems we ignore that issue. For me, a determination to buy local is largely based on the fossil fuel / transportation issue in climate change.  It seems to me that factor is ignored, and the subject of wine exports is just a super example of the stupidity.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Nov 28, 2019, 7:55 AM Lance Olsen via Missoula-Community-News <<a href="mailto:missoula-community-news@bigskynet.org">missoula-community-news@bigskynet.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal">~~~~~~~~~~     </span><span>!!    </span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,38,0)"><i> S </i></span><span style="background-color:rgb(0,249,0)"><i>E </i></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,38,0)"><i>A </i></span><span style="background-color:rgb(0,249,0)"><i>S </i></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,147,0)"><i>O</i></span><span style="background-color:rgb(0,249,0)"><i>N </i></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,38,0)"><i>S</i></span><span style="background-color:rgb(0,249,0)"><i> </i></span><span><i>   </i></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,38,0)"><i>G </i></span><span style="background-color:rgb(0,249,0)"><i>R </i></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,38,0)"><i>E </i></span><span style="background-color:rgb(0,249,0)"><i>E </i></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,38,0)"><i>T  </i></span><span style="background-color:rgb(0,249,0)"><i>I </i></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,147,0)"><i>N </i></span><span style="background-color:rgb(0,249,0)"><i>G </i></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,38,0)"><i>S</i></span><span><i>   </i>!!</span><span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal"> ~~~~~~~~~~</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);min-height:15px"><span></span><br></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="text-decoration:underline"><a href="https://news.google.com/articles/CBMiYGh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmZvcmJlcy5jb20vc2l0ZXMvam9zaHVhYmVja2VyLzIwMTkvMDkvMTcvd2h5LXdlLXNob3VsZC1zdG9wLWNlbGVicmF0aW5nLWNvbnN1bWVyaXNtL9IBZGh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmZvcmJlcy5jb20vc2l0ZXMvam9zaHVhYmVja2VyLzIwMTkvMDkvMTcvd2h5LXdlLXNob3VsZC1zdG9wLWNlbGVicmF0aW5nLWNvbnN1bWVyaXNtL2FtcC8?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Why We Should Stop Celebrating Consumerism</a></span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(32,33,36);background-color:rgb(255,251,0)"><span>Let's continue to admire success. But it is time to stop celebrating consumerism. Our society is longing for people who can tell the difference.</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(32,33,36);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);min-height:15px"><span></span><br></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(32,33,36);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span>Forbes magazine</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,238);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="text-decoration:underline"><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/joshuabecker/2019/09/17/why-we-should-stop-celebrating-consumerism/#25c3d1a142b4" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.forbes.com/sites/joshuabecker/2019/09/17/why-we-should-stop-celebrating-consumerism/#25c3d1a142b4<span style="color:rgb(0,0,238)"></span></a></span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,238);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);min-height:15px"><span style="text-decoration:underline"></span><br></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(102,0,153);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/nov/27/reverend-billy-church-of-stop-shopping-black-friday" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">The Church of Stop Shopping doesn't pull punches on its ...</a></span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(102,0,153);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);min-height:15px"><span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/nov/27/reverend-billy-church-of-stop-shopping-black-friday" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"></a></span><br></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(84,84,84);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(112,117,122)">Nov 27, 2015 - </span><span style="color:rgb(106,106,106)">Reverend Billy</span><span> Talen and his group are returning to New York City this Black Friday to deliver a simple message to Americans: </span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,251,0)">resist </span><span style="color:rgb(18,18,18);background-color:rgb(255,251,0)">consumerism</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(84,84,84);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);min-height:15px"><span></span><br></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,238);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="text-decoration:underline"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/nov/27/reverend-billy-church-of-stop-shopping-black-friday" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/nov/27/reverend-billy-church-of-stop-shopping-black-friday<span style="color:rgb(0,0,238)"></span></a></span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(84,84,84);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);min-height:15px"><span></span><br></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(84,84,84);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,251,0)"><span>"The big challenge is still</span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> to deliver emissions </span><span>reductions</span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> at the pace and scale needed, especially in a world </span><span>where economies are driven by consumption.”</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);min-height:15px"><span></span><br></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span>Sonja van Renssen.The inconvenient truth of failed climate policies.</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);min-height:15px"><span> </span><br></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span>Nature Climate Change  MAY 2018  Published online: 27 April 2018 </span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,105,217);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="text-decoration:underline"><a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-018-0155-4" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-018-0155-4</a></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);min-height:15px"><span></span><br></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal"><span>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,251,0)">“I just want it to be clear</span><span> that the mainstream environmental movement has been asking very little of people for decades,” said Bea Ruiz, also an organizer with the U.S. national [ Extinction Rebellion ] team. “There’s no element of, ‘We are in an emergency. We all need to do more than what we’re doing.”</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;min-height:15px"><span></span><br></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal"><span>Extinction Rebellion’s radical philosophy</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal"><span>July 22 2019</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,105,217)"><span style="text-decoration:underline"><a href="https://thinkprogress.org/the-radical-philosophy-of-extinction-rebellion-5857d3955b57/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://thinkprogress.org/the-radical-philosophy-of-extinction-rebellion-5857d3955b57/<span style="font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"></span></a></span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);min-height:15px"><span></span><br></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal"><span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">“What we are witnessing is a temper tantrum against the mere suggestion that there are limits to what we can </span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,251,0)">consume</span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">.” </span></span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);min-height:15px"><span></span><br></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span>Naomi Klein</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,105,217);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="text-decoration:underline"><a href="https://theintercept.com/2019/09/15/trump-straws-plastic/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://theintercept.com/2019/09/15/trump-straws-plastic/<span></span></a></span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(32,33,36);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);min-height:15px"><span><b></b></span><br></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(32,33,36);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span><b>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</b></span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span>“Consumer expectations of ever-higher living standards were fuelled by more lenient and readily available bank lending, …. </span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);min-height:15px"><span></span><br></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal"><span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">“Social status and identity became closely associated with </span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,251,0)">consumption</span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">, in particular with the concept of luxury. </span></span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);min-height:15px"><span></span><br></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal"><span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">"Identifying oneself with </span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,251,0)">the good life </span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">meant being able to live beyond traditional understandings of basic needs. Debt was the price one paid for the joys of being part of a hedonistic consumer culture.”</span></span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);min-height:15px"><span></span><br></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span>Kenneth Dyson. The Morality of Debt. Foreign Affairs. May 3, 2015</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,105,217);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="text-decoration:underline"><a href="https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2015-05-03/morality-debt" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2015-05-03/morality-debt<span></span></a></span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,105,217);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);min-height:15px"><span></span><br></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,105,217);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal"><span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">“The ecological systems upon which humans rely for </span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,251,0)">life support</span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> are in crisis, </span></span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span>and human behavior is the root cause.”</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);min-height:15px"><span> </span><br></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span>Elise Amel, Christie Manning, Britain Scott, Susan Koger</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);min-height:15px"><span></span><br></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span>Beyond the Roots of Human Inaction. Science 21 April 2017</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,105,217);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="text-decoration:underline"><a href="https://science.sciencemag.org/content/356/6335/275" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://science.sciencemag.org/content/356/6335/275<span></span></a></span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);min-height:15px"><span></span><br></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span>“The American way of life is not negotiable.”</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);min-height:15px"><span></span><br></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span>George H. W. Bush. 1992</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(84,84,84);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);min-height:15px"><span></span><br></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(84,84,84);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~`</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span>"We are not able even to think adequately about the behavior </span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span>that is at the annihilating edge."</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);min-height:15px"><span></span><br></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span>R. D. Laing. Introduction, The Politics of Experience. </span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span>1967, New York. Pantheon Books, a division of Random House</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);min-height:15px"><span></span><br></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(17,17,17);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span>A recent Ambio article by some heavyweights in climate science sets out the situation well enough. </span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(17,17,17);min-height:15px"><span></span><br></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(17,17,17);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span>A team including the likes of Will Steffen, Paul Crutzen, Veerabhadren Ramathan, Johan Rockstrom, Marten Scheffer and Hans Joachim Schellnhuber begin the <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3357752/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"><span style="font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(51,51,51)">abstract of their article</span></a> by saying </span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,251,0)">“Over the past century, the total material wealth of humanity has been enhanced …”  </span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(17,17,17);min-height:15px"><span></span><br></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;color:rgb(17,17,17);background-color:rgb(255,251,0)"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">They end it saying,</span><span>“we risk driving the Earth System onto a trajectory toward more hostile states from which we cannot easily return.”</span></div></div>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br><div><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div><div><div>$$$  Mirror, mirror, on the wall, Who’s the richest of them all ? $$$</div><div><span style="font-size:12px"><br></span></div><div><div style="line-height:1.2;font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:26px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><div><div><div style="margin:0px;line-height:1.54"><span style="font-size:12px"><a href="https://foreignpolicy.com/2012/02/27/were-all-the-1-percent/" style="color:rgb(102,0,153);text-decoration:none" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"><h3 style="font-weight:normal;margin:0px;padding:0px;display:inline-block;line-height:1.33">We're All the 1 Percent – Foreign Policy</h3><br><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:1.54;padding-bottom:1px;padding-top:1px"><cite style="color:rgb(0,102,33);font-style:normal;padding-top:1px;line-height:1.43">https://foreignpolicy.com/2012/02/27/were-all-the-1-percent/</cite></div></a><div style="display:inline;margin:1px 3px 0px;vertical-align:middle"><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=%2434%2C000+1%25&rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS737US737&oq=%2434%2C000+1%25&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.27159j1j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#" id="m_8501737439106395164am-b9" style="border-top-left-radius:0px;border-top-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-left-radius:0px;font-weight:bold;height:12px;line-height:27px;margin:1px 0px 2px;min-width:0px;padding:0px;text-align:center;background-image:none;border:0px;color:rgb(68,68,68);width:13px;text-decoration:none;display:inline-block" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"><span style="border-color:rgb(0,102,33) transparent;border-style:solid;border-width:5px 4px 0px;width:0px;height:0px;margin-left:3px"></span></a><div style="border:1px solid rgba(0,0,0,0.2);padding:0px;white-space:nowrap"><ol style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px"><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;list-style:none"><a href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:yapyloaVjVoJ:https://foreignpolicy.com/2012/02/27/were-all-the-1-percent/+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(51,51,51);display:block;padding:7px 18px;outline:0px" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"></a></li></ol></div></div></span></div><div style="max-width:48em;color:rgb(84,84,84);line-height:1.54"><span style="line-height:1.54;font-size:12px"><span style="color:rgb(112,117,122);line-height:1.54">Feb 27, 2012 - </span>But the global average is about a fifth of that. So by global standards, America's middle class is also really, really rich. To make it into the richest <span style="font-weight:bold;color:rgb(106,106,106)">1</span> percent globally, all you need is an income of around <span style="font-weight:bold;color:rgb(106,106,106)">$34,000</span>, according to World Bank economist Branko Milanovic.</span></div><div id="m_8501737439106395164ed_3"></div></div></div></div><div style="line-height:1.2;font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:26px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal"><div><div><div style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);margin:0px;line-height:1.54"><span style="font-size:12px"><a href="https://money.cnn.com/2012/01/04/news/economy/world_richest/index.htm" style="color:rgb(102,0,153);text-decoration:none" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"><h3 style="font-weight:normal;margin:0px;padding:0px;display:inline-block;line-height:1.33">Half the world's richest 1% live in the United States - Jan. 4, 2012</h3><br><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:1.54;padding-bottom:1px;padding-top:1px"><cite style="color:rgb(0,102,33);font-style:normal;padding-top:1px;line-height:1.43">https://money.cnn.com/2012/01/04/news/economy/world_richest/index.htm</cite></div></a><div style="display:inline;margin:1px 3px 0px;vertical-align:middle"><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=%2434%2C000+1%25&rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS737US737&oq=%2434%2C000+1%25&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.27159j1j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#" id="m_8501737439106395164am-b10" style="border-top-left-radius:0px;border-top-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-left-radius:0px;font-weight:bold;height:12px;line-height:27px;margin:1px 0px 2px;min-width:0px;padding:0px;text-align:center;background-image:none;border:0px;color:rgb(68,68,68);width:13px;text-decoration:none;display:inline-block" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"><span style="border-color:rgb(0,102,33) transparent;border-style:solid;border-width:5px 4px 0px;width:0px;height:0px;margin-left:3px"></span></a><div style="border:1px solid rgba(0,0,0,0.2);padding:0px;white-space:nowrap"><ol style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px"><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;list-style:none"><a href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:hBEabNzxQO8J:https://money.cnn.com/2012/01/04/news/economy/world_richest/index.htm+&cd=11&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(51,51,51);display:block;padding:7px 18px;outline:0px" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"></a></li></ol></div></div></span></div><div style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);max-width:48em;color:rgb(84,84,84);line-height:1.54"><span style="line-height:1.54;font-size:12px"><span style="color:rgb(112,117,122);line-height:1.54">Jan 4, 2012 - </span>The United States holds a disproportionate amount of the world's rich people. It only takes <span style="font-weight:bold;color:rgb(106,106,106)">$34,000</span> a year, after taxes, to be among the richest <span style="font-weight:bold;color:rgb(106,106,106)">1</span>% in the world. ... The rest are mainly scattered throughout Europe, Latin America and a few Asian countries.</span></div><div style="max-width:48em;color:rgb(84,84,84);line-height:1.54"><span style="line-height:1.54;font-size:12px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana;font-size:14px">~~~~~~~~~~~~~ </span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana;font-size:14px"><b> Reduce, baby, reduce </b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana;font-size:14px">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana;font-size:14px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana;font-size:14px;background-color:rgb(255,251,0)">"The big challenge is still</span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana;font-size:14px"> to deliver emissions <b>reductions</b> at the pace and scale needed, especially in </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana;font-size:14px;background-color:rgb(255,251,0)">a world where economies are driven by consumption.”</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana;font-size:14px"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana;font-size:14px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana;font-size:14px">Sonja van Renssen.</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana;font-size:14px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">The inconvenient truth of failed climate policies</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana;font-size:14px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">. </span></span></span></div><div style="max-width:48em;color:rgb(84,84,84);line-height:1.54"><span style="line-height:1.54;font-size:12px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana;font-size:14px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Nature Climate Change  MAY 2018 </span></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana;font-size:14px">Published online: 27 April 2018 <a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-018-0155-4" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-018-0155-4</a> </span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><br>
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