<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 style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="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); min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><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="font-kerning: none" class="">!! </span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ff2600" class=""><i class=""> S </i></span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #00f900" class=""><i class="">E </i></span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ff2600" class=""><i class="">A </i></span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #00f900" class=""><i class="">S </i></span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ff9300" class=""><i class="">O</i></span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #00f900" class=""><i class="">N </i></span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ff2600" class=""><i class="">S</i></span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #00f900" class=""><i class=""> </i></span><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><i class=""> </i></span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ff2600" class=""><i class="">G </i></span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #00f900" class=""><i class="">R </i></span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ff2600" class=""><i class="">E </i></span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #00f900" class=""><i class="">E </i></span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ff2600" class=""><i class="">T </i></span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #00f900" class=""><i class="">I </i></span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ff9300" class=""><i class="">N </i></span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #00f900" class=""><i class="">G </i></span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ff2600" class=""><i class="">S</i></span><span style="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; 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; line-height: normal; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; 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; line-height: normal; color: rgb(32, 33, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class=""><span style="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; line-height: normal; color: rgb(32, 33, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(32, 33, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Forbes magazine</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; 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; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(102, 0, 153); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="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; line-height: normal; color: rgb(102, 0, 153); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="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; line-height: normal; color: rgb(84, 84, 84); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #70757a" class="">Nov 27, 2015 - </span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #6a6a6a" class="">Reverend Billy</span><span style="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="font-kerning: none; background-color: #fffb00" class="">resist </span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #121212; background-color: #fffb00" class="">consumerism</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(84, 84, 84); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; 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; line-height: normal; color: rgb(84, 84, 84); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(84, 84, 84); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">"The big challenge is still</span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""> to deliver emissions </span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">reductions</span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""> at the pace and scale needed, especially in a world </span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">where economies are driven by consumption.”</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Sonja van Renssen.The inconvenient truth of failed climate policies.</span></div><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Nature Climate Change MAY 2018 Published online: 27 April 2018 </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 105, 217); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; 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="font-kerning: none; color: #000000" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #fffb00" class="">“I just want it to be clear</span><span style="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; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Extinction Rebellion’s radical philosophy</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">July 22 2019</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 105, 217);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; 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; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #000000; background-color: #fffb00" class="">“</span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #fffb00" class="">In the late 1700s </span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">British abolitionists, especially women, boycotted sugar and other goods produced by slaves in the West Indies.”</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://www.economist.com/business/2019/12/12/green-with-shame" class="">https://www.economist.com/business/2019/12/12/green-with-shame</a></span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #121212" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">“What we are witnessing is a temper tantrum against the mere suggestion that there are limits to what we can consume.” </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Naomi Klein</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 105, 217); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; 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; line-height: normal; color: rgb(32, 33, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class=""></b></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(32, 33, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #fffb00" class="">“Consumer expectations of ever-higher living standards </span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">were fuelled by more lenient and readily available bank lending, …. </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">“Social status and identity became closely associated with consumption, in particular with the concept of luxury. </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #fffb00" class="">"Identifying oneself with the good life meant being able to live beyond traditional understandings o</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">f basic needs. Debt was the price one paid for the joys of being part of a hedonistic consumer culture.”</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Kenneth Dyson. The Morality of Debt. Foreign Affairs. May 3, 2015</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 105, 217); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; 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; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 105, 217); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 105, 217); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">“The ecological systems upon which humans rely for life support are in crisis, </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">and human behavior is the root cause.”</span></div><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Elise Amel, Christie Manning, Britain Scott, Susan Koger</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Beyond the Roots of Human Inaction. Science 21 April 2017</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 105, 217); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; 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; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">“The American way of life is not negotiable.”</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">George H. W. Bush. 1992</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(84, 84, 84); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(84, 84, 84); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~`</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">"We are not able even to think adequately about the behavior </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">that is at the annihilating edge."</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">R. D. Laing. Introduction, The Politics of Experience. </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">1967, New York. Pantheon Books, a division of Random House</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="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; line-height: normal; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="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="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">abstract of their article</span></a> by saying </span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #fffb00" class="">“Over the past century, the total material wealth of humanity has been enhanced …” </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">They end it saying,</span><span style="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 class="">
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color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; 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 style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(32, 33, 36); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(32, 33, 36);"><div class="iv gt gE" style="padding: 20px 0px 0px; cursor: auto; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><b class="">**************</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><b class="">Greta Thunberg boils the basics down to just 5 words:</b> “… and it will get worse”</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhQVustYV24" class="">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhQVustYV24</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">She says so because, as she knows, climate scientists had made the same point; e.g., ….</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; 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; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><b class="">Camilo Mora:</b> “ …. our choices for deadly heat are now between more of it or a lot more of it.”</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><a href="https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1161/circoutcomes.117.004233" class="">https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1161/circoutcomes.117.004233</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;" class=""><br class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span></div></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(49, 68, 93);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><b class="">Michael Mann:</b> “</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">“</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">A new normal makes it sound like we have arrived in a new position, and that's where we're going to be. </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class="">But if we continue to burn fossil fuels ... we are going to ... get worse and worse droughts, and heat waves, and super storms, and floods, and wildfires.”</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/climate-change-is-making-wildfires-more-extreme-heres-how" class="">https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/climate-change-is-making-wildfires-more-extreme-heres-how<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><b class="">Kate Marvel:</b> “The whole idea that everything’s going to work out isn’t really helpful because it isn’t going to work out ” said Kate Marvel a climate scientist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Climate change is going to worsen to a point where millions of lives, homes, and species are put at risk she said. </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/151608/case-against-climate-pessimism" class="">https://newrepublic.com/article/151608/case-against-climate-pessimism</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;" class=""><br class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 51, 255);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><b class="">My own view, in 5,000 words:</b> <<</span><span style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><a href="https://mountainjournal.org/why-rising-temps-mean-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it" class="">https://mountainjournal.org/why-rising-temps-mean-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it</a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">>></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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