<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; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">Excerpts :</b> “A group of researchers, led by a UNSW sustainability scientist, have reviewed existing academic discussions on the link between wealth, economy and associated impacts, reaching </span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #fffb00" class="">a clear conclusion: technology will only get us so far </span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">when working towards sustainability - we need </span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #fffb00" class="">far-reaching lifestyle changes</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> and </span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #fffb00" class="">different economic paradigms.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">“In their review, published in <i class="">Nature Communications</i><b class=""> [</b></span><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><b class=""> OPEN ACCESS pdf</b></span><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class=""> ]</b> <<<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-16941-y.pdf" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" class="">https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-16941-y.pdf</span></a>>> and entitled ‘Scientists' Warning on Affluence,’ the researchers have summarised the available evidence, identifying possible solution approaches.”</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">“’It's hardly ever acknowledged, but any transition towards sustainability can only be effective if technological advancements are complemented by far-reaching lifestyle changes,’ says co-author Manfred Lenzen, Professor of Sustainability Research at the University of Sydney.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">"I am often asked to explain this issue at social gatherings. Usually I say that what we see or associate with our current environmental issues (cars, power, planes) is just the tip of our personal iceberg. It's all the stuff we consume and the environmental destruction embodied in that stuff that forms the iceberg's submerged part. </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">“Unfortunately, once we understand this, the implications for our lifestyle are often so confronting that denial kicks in."</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" 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="">——————————————————————————</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(68, 68, 67); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Bloomberg March 19, 2019</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(68, 68, 67); background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Climate Challenge Will Be Harder Than It Seems, JPMorgan Executive Warns</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(68, 68, 67); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">CHRISTOPHER FLAVELLE </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="font-kerning: none; color: #444443" class=""><<<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-19/climate-challenge-harder-than-it-seems-jpmorgan-executive-warns" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 238);" class="">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-19/climate-challenge-harder-than-it-seems-jpmorgan-executive-warns</span></a>>></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(165, 167, 174); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(68, 68, 67); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Excerpts : The world isn’t cutting carbon emissions anywhere near quickly enough, a senior executive at <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/quote/0215978D:US" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" class="">J.P. Morgan Asset Management</span></a> told clients this week -- and changing that will require </span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #fffb00" class="">far harder choices than most people realize.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(68, 68, 67); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(68, 68, 67); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">The message to investors, Cembalest said, is not that cutting emissions is hopeless. Rather, it’s that the U.S. and other countries will need to accept much more sweeping – and </span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #fffb00" class="">likely politically unpopular</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> -- changes to reach that goal.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(68, 68, 67); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #fffb00" class="">“Reduced consumption</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> is going to have to be a part of the equation,” Cembalest said.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(68, 68, 67); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(68, 68, 67); background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">“I think more sacrifices are going to be needed than people still understand.”</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(68, 68, 67); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" 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(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">PNAS first published November 7, 2019.</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/10.1073/pnas.1917051116" class="">https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1917051116</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">Excerpts : </b>The emission of greenhouse gases into Earth’s atmosphere is a by-product of </span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #fffb00" class="">modern marvels such as</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> the production of vast amounts of energy, heating and cooling inhospitable environments to be amenable to human existence, and traveling great distances faster than our saddle-sore ancestors ever dreamed possible. </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">However,<b class=""> </b></span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #fffb00" class="">these luxuries come at a price:</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> climate changes in the form of severe droughts, extreme precipitation and temperatures, increased frequency of flooding in coastal cities, global warming, and sea-level rise (1, 2). </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #fffb00" class="">This is the price we pay for the<b class=""> </b>luxury</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> of about 200 y of relatively unchecked greenhouse gas emissions.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); 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(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" 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); min-height: 17px;" 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="">“Consumer expectations of </span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #fffb00" class="">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: 17px;" 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: 17px;" 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="">"Identifying oneself with </span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #fffb00" class="">the good life meant being able to live beyond traditional understandings of basic needs.</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> 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: 17px;" 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</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" 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=""><i class="">The Meaning of Things : Domestic symbols and the self. </i>Mihaly Czikszentmihalyi & Eugene Rochberg-Halton. 1981. Cambridge University Press</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><b class="">Excerpts : </b>“The point is that a habit of consumption can become an end in itself, feeding on its autonomous necessity to possess more things, to control more status, to use more energy.” p. 231</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">“The prognosis is not very bright, given that our goals and institutions are now geared to maximize each person’s drive to consume.”</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">“The most basic change needed to turn things around is a change in the meaning we derive from possession of goods and energy.” p. 232</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">======================================</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.economicsonline.co.uk/Competitive_markets/Consumer_demand.html" class="">Consumer demand - Definition - Economics Online ...</a></span></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=""><a href="https://www.economicsonline.co.uk/Competitive_markets/Consumer_demand.html" class="">www.economicsonline.co.uk<span style="font-kerning: none; color: #5f6368" class=""> › Competitive_markets</span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(77, 81, 86); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #5f6368" class="">Consumer demand</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> is the willingness and ability of consumers to purchase a quantity of products in a given period of time, or at a given point in time.</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.investopedia.com/terms/d/demand.asp" class="">Demand Definition - Investopedia</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(95, 99, 104); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #202124" class=""><a href="https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/demand.asp" class="">www.investopedia.com<span style="font-kerning: none; color: #5f6368" class=""> › Economics › Microeconomics</span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(77, 81, 86); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #70757a" class="">Jun 25, 2019 - </span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #5f6368" class="">Demand</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> is an economic principle that describes </span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #5f6368" class="">consumer</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> ... Market </span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #5f6368" class="">demand</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> is the total quantity demanded across all </span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #5f6368" class="">consumers</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> in a market ...</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><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 ecological systems upon which humans rely for </span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #fffb00" class="">life support</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> are in crisis, 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: 17px;" 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: 17px;" 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(68, 68, 67); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(68, 68, 67); 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); min-height: 17px;" 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="">"The big challenge is still to deliver emissions reductions at the pace and scale needed, especially in a world </span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #fffb00" 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: 17px;" 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><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</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=""><<<a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-018-0155-4" class="">https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-018-0155-4</a>>> </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="">————————————————————————————</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" 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="">The Story of Stuff</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.youtube.com/watch?v=9GorqroigqM" class="">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GorqroigqM</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); 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(0, 105, 217); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://www.resilience.org/stories/2020-05-20/from-energy-transition-to-energy-reduction/" class=""><b class="">From Energy Transition to Energy Reduction</b></a></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="">By Chris Smaje</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="">Excerpt : My request to those working in the renewable energy industry is to ask themselves before undertaking any new project:</span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #fffb00" class=""> “Will this help people to live a lower energy lifestyle than they previously did?” – which, regrettably, is not something we can say of the low carbon energy installed globally to date.</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> If they can’t answer yes to the question, I’d request they dump the project and seek another one. It’s urgent.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" 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="font-kerning: none; color: #111111" class=""><<<a href="https://www.resilience.org/stories/2020-05-20/from-energy-transition-to-energy-reduction/" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 238);" class="">https://www.resilience.org/stories/2020-05-20/from-energy-transition-to-energy-reduction/</span></a>>>2020</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); 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="">“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: 17px;" 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;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><<<a href="https://theintercept.com/2019/09/15/trump-straws-plastic/" class="">https://theintercept.com/2019/09/15/trump-straws-plastic/</a>>></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" 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: 17px;" 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; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" 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="">"We are not able even to think adequately about the behavior 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: 17px;" 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, M.D. 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: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); 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(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">It's too easy for consumers to blame the corporations for the climate crisis, when we subsidize them every time we buy what they’re selling. At the same time, corporate policy does matter, so corporations can’t pin the blame entirely on consumers. </span></div><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">This buck stops everywhere.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" 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="font-kerning: none" class=""><<<a href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/06/25/caught-in-a-trap-of-our-own-making-climate-change-blame-and-denial/" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 238);" class="">https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/06/25/caught-in-a-trap-of-our-own-making-climate-change-blame-and-denial/</span></a>>>2020</span></div><div class="">
<div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">+++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br class="">"The biosphere -- this thin film of air and water and soil and life no deeper than ten miles, or one four-hundredth of the earth's radius -- is now the setting of the uncertain history of man."<br class=""><br class="">“Man must learn to see himself in his true place and proportion in the biosphere.”<br class=""><br class="">The Editors, Scientific American. Foreword to The Biosphere, the book version of Scientific American’s September 1970 special issue on The Biosphere.<br class=""> </div></div>
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