<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">~~~~~~~~~~ </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">!! </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 38, 0);" class=""><i class=""> S </i></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(0, 249, 0);" class=""><i class="">E </i></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 38, 0);" class=""><i class="">A </i></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(0, 249, 0);" class=""><i class="">S </i></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 147, 0);" class=""><i class="">O</i></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(0, 249, 0);" class=""><i class="">N </i></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 38, 0);" class=""><i class="">S</i></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(0, 249, 0);" class=""><i class=""> </i></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><i class=""> </i></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 38, 0);" class=""><i class="">G </i></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(0, 249, 0);" class=""><i class="">R </i></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 38, 0);" class=""><i class="">E </i></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(0, 249, 0);" class=""><i class="">E </i></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 38, 0);" class=""><i class="">T </i></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(0, 249, 0);" class=""><i class="">I </i></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 147, 0);" class=""><i class="">N </i></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(0, 249, 0);" class=""><i class="">G </i></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 38, 0);" class=""><i class="">S</i></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><i class=""> </i>!!</span><span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""> ~~~~~~~~~~</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></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);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><a href="https://news.google.com/articles/CBMiYGh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmZvcmJlcy5jb20vc2l0ZXMvam9zaHVhYmVja2VyLzIwMTkvMDkvMTcvd2h5LXdlLXNob3VsZC1zdG9wLWNlbGVicmF0aW5nLWNvbnN1bWVyaXNtL9IBZGh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmZvcmJlcy5jb20vc2l0ZXMvam9zaHVhYmVja2VyLzIwMTkvMDkvMTcvd2h5LXdlLXNob3VsZC1zdG9wLWNlbGVicmF0aW5nLWNvbnN1bWVyaXNtL2FtcC8?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen" class="">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);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">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;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></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);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">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);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/joshuabecker/2019/09/17/why-we-should-stop-celebrating-consumerism/#25c3d1a142b4" class="">https://www.forbes.com/sites/joshuabecker/2019/09/17/why-we-should-stop-celebrating-consumerism/#25c3d1a142b4<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 238);" class=""></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;" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></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);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</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);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/nov/27/reverend-billy-church-of-stop-shopping-black-friday" class="">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;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/nov/27/reverend-billy-church-of-stop-shopping-black-friday" class=""></a></span><br class=""></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);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(112, 117, 122);" class="">Nov 27, 2015 - </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(106, 106, 106);" class="">Reverend Billy</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""> Talen and his group are returning to New York City this Black Friday to deliver a simple message to Americans: </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class="">resist </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class="">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;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></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);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/nov/27/reverend-billy-church-of-stop-shopping-black-friday" class="">https://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/nov/27/reverend-billy-church-of-stop-shopping-black-friday<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 238);" class=""></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;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></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);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">"The big challenge is still</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> to deliver emissions </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">reductions</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> at the pace and scale needed, especially in a world </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">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;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">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;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">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);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-018-0155-4" class="">https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-018-0155-4</a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class="">“I just want it to be clear</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""> 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;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Extinction Rebellion’s radical philosophy</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">July 22 2019</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 105, 217);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><a href="https://thinkprogress.org/the-radical-philosophy-of-extinction-rebellion-5857d3955b57/" class="">https://thinkprogress.org/the-radical-philosophy-of-extinction-rebellion-5857d3955b57/<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></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;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">“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);" class="">consume</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">.” </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;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">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);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><a href="https://theintercept.com/2019/09/15/trump-straws-plastic/" class="">https://theintercept.com/2019/09/15/trump-straws-plastic/<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></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;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><b class=""></b></span><br class=""></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);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><b class="">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">“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;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">“Social status and identity became closely associated with </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class="">consumption</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">, 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;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">"Identifying oneself with </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class="">the good life </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">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;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">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);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><a href="https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2015-05-03/morality-debt" class="">https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2015-05-03/morality-debt<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></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;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></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);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">“The ecological systems upon which humans rely for </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class="">life support</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> 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);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">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;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">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;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">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);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><a href="https://science.sciencemag.org/content/356/6335/275" class="">https://science.sciencemag.org/content/356/6335/275<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></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;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">“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;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">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;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></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);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~`</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">"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);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">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;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">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);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">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;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</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);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">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;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></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);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">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/" class=""><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">abstract of their article</span></a> by saying </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class="">“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;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></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);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">They end it saying,</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">“we risk driving the Earth System onto a trajectory toward more hostile states from which we cannot easily return.”</span></div></div>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br class=""><div class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div><div><div class="">$$$ Mirror, mirror, on the wall, Who’s the richest of them all ? 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So by global standards, America's middle class is also really, really rich. To make it into the richest <span class="" style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(106, 106, 106);">1</span> percent globally, all you need is an income of around <span class="" style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(106, 106, 106);">$34,000</span>, according to World Bank economist Branko Milanovic.</span></div><div data-base-uri="/search?rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS737US737" id="ed_3" data-ved="2ahUKEwib-o_c2aPiAhWqFTQIHbV_DNgQ2Z0BMAl6BAgAEAY" class=""></div></div></div></div><div class="g" 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; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><div data-hveid="CAIQAA" data-ved="2ahUKEwib-o_c2aPiAhWqFTQIHbV_DNgQFSgAMAp6BAgCEAA" class=""><div class="rc" style="position: relative;"><div class="r" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; line-height: 1.54;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12px;"><a href="https://money.cnn.com/2012/01/04/news/economy/world_richest/index.htm" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://money.cnn.com/2012/01/04/news/economy/world_richest/index.htm&ved=2ahUKEwib-o_c2aPiAhWqFTQIHbV_DNgQFjAKegQIAhAB" class="" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 153); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><h3 class="LC20lb" 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 class=""><div class="TbwUpd" style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.54; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-top: 1px;"><cite class="iUh30" 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 class="ab_ctl action-menu" style="display: inline; position: relative; margin: 1px 3px 0px; vertical-align: middle;"><a class="GHDvEf ab_button" 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="am-b10" aria-label="Result Options" aria-expanded="false" aria-haspopup="true" role="button" jsaction="m.tdd;keydown:m.hbke;keypress:m.mskpe" data-ved="2ahUKEwib-o_c2aPiAhWqFTQIHbV_DNgQ7B0wCnoECAIQAg" style="border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; cursor: default; font-weight: bold; height: 12px; line-height: 27px; margin: 1px 0px 2px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; transition: none 0s ease 0s; background-image: none; border: 0px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); box-shadow: 0px 0px 0px 0px; filter: none; width: 13px; text-decoration: none; display: inline-block;"><span class="mn-dwn-arw" style="border-color: rgb(0, 102, 33) transparent; border-style: solid; border-width: 5px 4px 0px; width: 0px; height: 0px; margin-left: 3px; top: 7.5px; margin-top: -4px; position: absolute; left: 0px;"></span></a><div class="action-menu-panel ab_dropdown" role="menu" tabindex="-1" jsaction="keydown:m.hdke;mouseover:m.hdhne;mouseout:m.hdhue" data-ved="2ahUKEwib-o_c2aPiAhWqFTQIHbV_DNgQqR8wCnoECAIQAw" style="border: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: auto; top: 12px; white-space: nowrap; z-index: 3; transition: opacity 0.218s ease 0s; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 2px 4px; left: 0px; visibility: hidden;"><ol class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"><li class="action-menu-item ab_dropdownitem" role="menuitem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; list-style: none; cursor: pointer;"><a class="fl" 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" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:hBEabNzxQO8J:https://money.cnn.com/2012/01/04/news/economy/world_richest/index.htm%2B%26cd%3D11%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwib-o_c2aPiAhWqFTQIHbV_DNgQIDAKegQIAhAE" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"></a></li></ol></div></div></span></div><div class="s" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); max-width: 48em; color: rgb(84, 84, 84); line-height: 1.54;"><span class="st" style="line-height: 1.54; overflow-wrap: break-word; font-size: 12px;"><span class="f" 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.<wbr class=""> It only takes <span class="" style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(106, 106, 106);">$34,000</span> a year, after taxes, to be among the richest <span class="" style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(106, 106, 106);">1</span>% in the world.<wbr class=""> ... The rest are mainly scattered throughout Europe, Latin America and a few Asian countries.</span></div><div class="s" style="max-width: 48em; color: rgb(84, 84, 84); line-height: 1.54;"><span class="st" style="line-height: 1.54; overflow-wrap: break-word; font-size: 12px;"><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;">~~~~~~~~~~~~~ </span><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><b class=""> Reduce, baby, reduce </b></span><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span><br class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><span class="" 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 class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"> to deliver emissions <b class="">reductions</b> at the pace and scale needed, especially in </span><span class="" 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 class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><br class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;">Sonja van Renssen.</span><span class="" 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 class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. </span></span></span></div><div class="s" style="max-width: 48em; color: rgb(84, 84, 84); line-height: 1.54;"><span class="st" style="line-height: 1.54; overflow-wrap: break-word; font-size: 12px;"><span class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px;"><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Nature Climate Change MAY 2018 </span></span><span class="" 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" class="">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 class=""><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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