<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(4, 51, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-11/uok-mnf111620.php" class=""></a><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-11/uok-mnf111620.php" class="">News Release 16-Nov-2020</a></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-11/uok-mnf111620.php" class=""><b class="">Media, NGO framing of climate change affects how people think about issue: studies</b></a></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-11/uok-mnf111620.php" class="">UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS<br class="">
RESEARCH NEWS RELEASE</a></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 51, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-11/uok-mnf111620.php" class=""></a><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-11/uok-mnf111620.php" class="">In a pair of studies, Hong Tien Vu of the University of Kansas found that the way media organizations and global climate change NGOs frame their messages on the topic does in fact influence how people look at the issue, which in turn affects what action, if any, is taken to fight the problem.</a></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-11/uok-mnf111620.php" class=""></a><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-11/uok-mnf111620.php" class="">JOURNAL<span style="color: #0433ff" class=""> </span><i class="">The Agenda Setting Journal</i></a></div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 100px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 51, 255);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline" class=""><a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-11/uok-mnf111620.php" class="">https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-11/uok-mnf111620.php</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(205, 102, 95);" class=""><b class="">============================</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(205, 102, 95);" class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><a href="https://www" class="">News Release 16-Nov-2020</a></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><a href="https://www" class=""><b class="">Antarctica</b></a> : <b class=""><a href="https://www" class="">Recent climate extremes have driven unprecedented changes in the deep ocean</a></b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline" class=""><a href="https://www" class="">CSIRO AUSTRALIA<span style="color: #000000" class=""><br class="">
</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">RESEARCH NEWS RELEASE</span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><a href="https://www" class="">New measurements reveal a surprising increase in the amount of dense water sinking near Antarctica, following 50 years of decline.</a></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><a href="https://www" class="">JOURNAL<i class="">Nature Geoscience</i></a></div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 100px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(66, 66, 66);" class=""><span style="color: #2d2d2d" class=""><b class="">Excerpt from release - </b></span>"We found that an unusual combination of two climate phenomena drove the renewal of bottom water formation: an extreme El Niño event occurring at the same time as stronger and southward-shifted westerly winds," said Dr Silvano. "These results show how remote forcing can influence Antarctic processes and climate.”</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(66, 66, 66);" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(16, 109, 214);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline" class=""><a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-11/ca-" class="">https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-11/ca-rce111620.php<span style="color: rgb(16, 109, 214);" class=""></span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(205, 102, 95);" class=""><b class="">============================</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 155, 214); min-height: 17px;" class=""><a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-11/cuot-gb111320.php" class=""></a><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-11/cuot-gb111320.php" class="">News Release 16-Nov-2020</a></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-11/cuot-gb111320.php" class=""><b class="">'The global built environment sector must think in new, radical ways, and act quickly'</b></a></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-11/cuot-gb111320.php" class="">CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY<span style="color: #009bd6" class=""><br class="">
</span><span style="color: #ff2600" class="">RESEARCH NEWS RELEASE</span></a></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 155, 214); min-height: 17px;" class=""><a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-11/cuot-gb111320.php" class=""></a><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(99, 99, 99);" class=""><a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-11/cuot-gb111320.php" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class="">The construction sector, the real estate industry and city planners </span>must give high priority to the same goal - to drastically reduce their climate impacts. Powerful, combined efforts are absolutely crucial for the potential to achieve the UN's sustainability goals. And what's more - everything has to happen very quickly. These are the cornerstones to the roadmap presented at the Beyond 2020 World Conference.</a></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(154, 154, 154);" class=""><a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-11/cuot-gb111320.php" class="">MEETING -- Beyond 2020</a></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(154, 154, 154); min-height: 17px;" class=""><a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-11/cuot-gb111320.php" class=""></a><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(205, 102, 95);" class=""><b class="">============================</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(205, 102, 95); min-height: 17px;" class=""><b class=""></b><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 102, 153); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 102, 153); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="">Nature Climate Change <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-020-00938-y#article-info" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(0, 102, 153); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 102, 153);" class="">Published: 16 November 2020</span></a></span></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">Heat tolerance in ectotherms scales predictably with body size</b></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 102, 153); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 102, 153);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">Ignacio Peralta-Maraver</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class=""> & </span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">Enrico L. Rezende</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class=""> </span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">Abstract</b></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 28px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">Recent studies suggest that animals are decreasing in size as a general response to global warming, for reasons that remain unclear. Here, by analysing ectotherm death time curves that take into consideration the intensity and duration of a thermal challenge, we show that heat tolerance varies predictably with size. </span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #fffb00" class="">Smaller animals can maintain higher body temperatures than larger ones during short periods, but cannot maintain higher body temperatures over long periods as their endurance declines more rapidly with time. </span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">Body size effects and adaptive variation in heat tolerance may have been obscured in the past by these unaccounted for temporal effects.</span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #fffb00" class=""> With increasing size, thermal death occurs at relatively lower metabolic rates </span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">with respect to rest at a non-stressful temperature, which might partly explain the reported reductions in organism size with climate warming and shed light on the mechanisms that underlie scaling.</span></p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(205, 102, 95); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class=""><b class="">============================</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(154, 154, 154); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 17px;" class=""><a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-11/cuot-gb111320.php" class=""></a><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-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.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.homernews.com/news/seawatch-uaf-study-finds-sizes-of-four-salmon-species-shrinking/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYAioTMTQ0NjgwNzQ5MTk3ODQ2MTMxNjIaNTVhMjBiMWU5MmY1MDdlZDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNEpBehd1RWLomu1T3UDvtuoxIVKDA" class=""><b class="">Seawatch: UAF study finds sizes of four salmon species shrinking</b></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(115, 115, 115); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(115, 115, 115); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Homer News</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(37, 37, 37); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">With this huge database, the team was able to see patterns of <b class="">body size</b> ... The two major factors behind this change in sizes is <b class="">climate change</b> and …</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(37, 37, 37); 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(205, 102, 95); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(37, 37, 37);" class=""><b class="">============================</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(205, 102, 95); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(37, 37, 37); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><b class=""></b><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(10, 35, 54); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(37, 37, 37); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">Concluding 4 paragraphs :</b> I see this latest declaration of the Green New Deal as every bit as <i class="">prosocial</i> as it is pro-environment and, for that matter, economically friendly. It’s advocates aren’t afraid to confront the long-running trend of <i class="">antisocial</i> economic inequality that Business Week had spelled out for all to see in 1994: “The gap between high- and low-income families has widened steadily since about 1980, hitting a new high every year since 1985.”</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(10, 35, 54); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(37, 37, 37); 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(10, 35, 54); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(37, 37, 37); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">This trend has long held risks of its own, and, like the dire risk from the changes we’ve been forcing on the climate, the dangers of concentrated wealth have been hiding in plain sight. Around the same time that Business Week summarized the situation, two of the <i class="">Wall Street Journal</i>’s senior writers, Alan Murray and Albert Hunt, warned that if the trend continued it would set off a reaction that would make the long and bloody French Revolution of the 1790s seem like a picnic outing.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(10, 35, 54); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(37, 37, 37); 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(10, 35, 54); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(37, 37, 37); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">That’s not a rosy picture for anyone to ponder, but it hasn’t gone away. Indeed, <i class="">The Washington Post</i> reported on February 7 2019 that Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome H. Powell warned that income inequality is <i class="">the nation’s biggest economic challenge in the coming decade.</i> As quoted by the Post, Powell said income growth for middle- and working-class Americans “has really decreased,” while “growth at the top has been very strong.”</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(10, 35, 54); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(37, 37, 37); 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(10, 35, 54); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(37, 37, 37);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">He said we need to do something about it; “We have some work to do to make sure that the prosperity we do achieve is widely spread.” The Fed chairman didn’t endorse or even mention the Green New Deal, but he seems to have its back on at least that one important issue.</span></div><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(10, 35, 54); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(37, 37, 37); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 105, 217); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(37, 37, 37);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #000000" class=""><<<a href="https://mountainjournal.org/why-rising-temps-mean-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">https://mountainjournal.org/why-rising-temps-mean-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it</span></a>>></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(37, 37, 37); 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(205, 102, 95); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(37, 37, 37);" class=""><b class="">============================</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(205, 102, 95); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(37, 37, 37); min-height: 17px;" class=""><b class=""></b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(37, 37, 37); 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(43, 43, 43); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(37, 37, 37);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">Plants and animals aren't so different when it comes to climate</b></span></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(37, 37, 37);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><i class="">A new study reveals that plants and animals are remarkably similar in their responses to changing environmental conditions.</i></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(37, 37, 37); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #2b2b2b" class="">UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA </span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">NEWS RELEASE 24-MAR-2020</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(37, 37, 37);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><a href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/03/200324202037.htm" class="">https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/03/200324202037.htm</a></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(37, 37, 37);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">Despite fundamental differences in their biology, plants and animals are surprisingly similar in how they have evolved in response to climate around the world, according to a new study published this week in <i class="">Nature Ecology and Evolution <<</i><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-020-1158-x" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); background-color: transparent;" class="">https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-020-1158-x</span></a><i class="">>></i>.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(37, 37, 37);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">Plants and animals are fundamentally different in many ways, but one of the most obvious is in how they deal with temperature.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(37, 37, 37);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">"When it gets sunny and hot where they are at a given moment, most animals can simply move to find some shade and cool down," said lead study author John J. Wiens, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Arizona. "Plants on the other hand, have to stay where they are and tolerate these higher temperatures."</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(37, 37, 37);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">Together with Hui Liu and Quing Ye from the South China Botanical Garden, Wiens analyzed climatic data from 952 plant species and 1,135 vertebrate species. They included many major groups of flowering plants, from oaks to orchids to grasses, and all major groups of terrestrial vertebrates including frogs, salamanders, lizards, snakes, turtles, crocodilians, birds and mammals.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(37, 37, 37);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #fffb00" class="">The team used climatic data and detailed evolutionary trees to test 10 hypotheses </span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">about the temperature and precipitation conditions where each species occurs and how these change over time among species. This set of conditions is also known as the "climatic niche" of each species.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(37, 37, 37);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">The climatic niche of a species reflects where it can live, Wiens explained - for example, in the tropics versus the temperate zone, or at sea level versus the top of a mountain - and how it will respond to climate change.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(37, 37, 37);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">A species with a wide climatic niche can range widely across many different conditions and may be especially resilient to climate change. A species with a narrow niche, on the other hand, may have a small distribution and may be especially vulnerable to climate change. Understanding climatic niches is critically important for answering many of the most fundamental and urgent questions in ecology and evolution.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(37, 37, 37);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">F</span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #fffb00" class="">or all 10 hypotheses the authors tested, they found that plants and animals showed similar patterns of niche evolution.</span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""> For example, on average, each plant and animal species lives across a similar breadth of environmental conditions. The breadth of conditions that each species lives in also changes in the same way across the globe in both groups, with plant and animal species in tropical regions found in only a narrow range of temperatures and those in temperate zones tolerating a broad range of temperatures. </span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #fffb00" class="">Furthermore, climatic niches of plants and animals change at similar rates over time.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(37, 37, 37);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">These results can help explain many fundamental patterns in nature. For example, different sets of plant and animal species tend to occur at different elevations, which differ in temperature and precipitation. In the southwestern United States, for example, different elevations are home to different sets of plant and animal species, from low-lying deserts to grasslands to oak woodlands to pine forests to spruce-fir forests at the higher elevations.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(37, 37, 37);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">"Since each plant and animal species tolerates a similar, limited breadth of climatic conditions - on average - you end up with different sets of both plant and animal species at different elevations along a mountain slope," Wiens explained.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(37, 37, 37);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">These findings may also help explain why different sets of species occur in temperate regions and tropical regions in both groups, and why plants and animals tend to have biodiversity hotspots and high species numbers in the same places - for example, the Andes mountains of South America.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(37, 37, 37);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #fffb00" class="">The study also suggests how future climate change may impact plant and animal species.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(37, 37, 37);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #fffb00" class="">"The finding that plants and animals have similar niche breadths and rates may help explain why local extinctions from climate change have occurred at similar frequencies in plants and animals so far, and why similar levels of species extinction are predicted for both groups in the future," said Wiens</span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">. "Species with broader niches and faster rates may be better able to survive climate change over the next 50 years, and niche breadths and rates are very similar between plants and animals overall."</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(37, 37, 37);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">Furthermore, the finding that species are adapted to a narrower range of temperatures in the tropics helps explain why a higher frequency of extinctions is predicted there than in the temperate zone, even though warming may be similar or even greater at higher latitudes.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(37, 37, 37);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #fffb00" class="">The authors also found that in both plants and animals, species seem to have more difficulty adapting rapidly to hotter temperatures and drier conditions than to cooler and wetter conditions. Therefore, both plants and animals may have a particularly difficult time adapting to increasing temperatures and droughts related to global warming.</span></p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(37, 37, 37); 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(205, 102, 95); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(37, 37, 37);" class=""><b class="">============================</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(205, 102, 95); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(37, 37, 37); min-height: 17px;" class=""><b class=""></b><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-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/CAIiEC4hNHQVgmNshczAM5A7Xo8qGQgEKhAIACoHCAow4bOVCzDCl6sDMN-jxgY?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen" class="">I Am Greta' director explains the 'extreme hatred' the young climate activist has received online</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(32, 33, 36); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Nathan Grossman, director of the new documentary, "I Am Greta," started filming Thunberg in 2018 — well before she became the global face of the ...</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-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/publications/CAAqBwgKMOGzlQswwperAw?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen" class="">Yahoo Entertainment</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(32, 33, 36); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">8 hours ago</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); 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; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); 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(205, 102, 95); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><b class="">============================</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">“</span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #fffb00" class="">Decarbonization of the world’s economy would bring colossal disruption of the status quo.</span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""> It’s a desire to avoid that change — political, financial and otherwise — that drives many of the climate sceptics. </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">Still, as this journal has noted numerous times,it’s clear that many policymakers who argue that emissions must be curbed, and fast, don’t seem to appreciate the scale of what’s required.”</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">EDITORIAL</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">NATURE 21 FEBRUARY 2018</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); 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(205, 102, 95); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><b class="">============================</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">“...many scientists say deep emissions cuts are necessary … to prevent … dangerous consequences of global warming. </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #fffb00" class="">"Getting from here to there would require a massive economic shift.”</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">Rachel Pannett and Jeffrey Ball. “Australia Approves Energy Bill.” </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">The Wall Street Journal p.A7, August 21, 2009</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); 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(205, 102, 95); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><b class="">============================</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(205, 102, 95); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 17px;" class=""><b class=""></b><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 82, 116); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 82, 116);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="">Global Change Biology November</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(139, 139, 139); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(139, 139, 139);" class=""> </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(28, 29, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(28, 29, 30);" class="">2020</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(118, 118, 118); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(118, 118, 118);" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 82, 116); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 82, 116);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(118, 118, 118); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(118, 118, 118);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(0, 82, 116); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 82, 116);" class=""><b class=""><a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15307" class="">https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15307</a></b></span></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 82, 116); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 82, 116);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(118, 118, 118); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(118, 118, 118);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(0, 82, 116); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 82, 116);" class=""><br class=""></span></span></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(28, 29, 30); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(28, 29, 30);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">Rapid deep ocean deoxygenation and acidification threaten life on Northeast Pacific seamounts</b></span></p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 82, 116); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 82, 116);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/action/doSearch?ContribAuthorStored=Ross%2C+Tetjana" class="">Tetjana Ross</a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(139, 139, 139); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(139, 139, 139);" class=""> <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/action/doSearch?ContribAuthorStored=Du+Preez%2C+Cherisse" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(0, 82, 116); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 82, 116);" class="">Cherisse Du Preez</span></a> <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/action/doSearch?ContribAuthorStored=Ianson%2C+Debby" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(0, 82, 116); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 82, 116);" class="">Debby Ianson</span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(28, 29, 30); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(28, 29, 30); 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(65, 66, 70); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(65, 66, 70); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Abstract</span></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(28, 29, 30); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(28, 29, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Anthropogenic climate change is causing our oceans to lose oxygen and become more acidic at an unprecedented rate, threatening marine ecosystems and their associated animals. In deep‐sea environments, where conditions have typically changed over geological timescales, the associated animals, adapted to these stable conditions, are expected to be highly vulnerable to any change or direct human impact. Our study coalesces one of the longest deep‐sea observational oceanographic time series, reaching back to the 1960s, with a modern visual survey that characterizes almost two vertical kilometers of benthic seamount ecosystems. Based on our new and rigorous analysis of the Line P oceanographic monitoring data,</span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #fffb00" class=""> the upper 3,000 m of the Northeast Pacific (NEP) has lost 15% of its oxygen in the last 60 years.</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> Over that time, the oxygen minimum zone (OMZ), ranging between approximately 480 and 1,700 m, has expanded at a rate of 3.0 ± 0.7 m/year (due to deepening at the bottom). Additionally, carbonate saturation horizons above the OMZ have been shoaling at a rate of 1–2 m/year since the 1980s. Based on our visual surveys of four NEP seamounts, these deep‐sea features support ecologically important taxa typified by long life spans, slow growth rates, and limited mobility, including habitat‐forming cold water corals and sponges, echinoderms, and fish. By examining the changing conditions within the narrow realized bathymetric niches for a subset of vulnerable populations, we resolve </span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #fffb00" class="">chemical trends that are rapid in comparison to the life span of the taxa and detrimental to their survival. If these trends continue as they have over the last three to six decades,</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> they threaten to diminish regional seamount ecosystem diversity and cause local extinctions. This study highlights the importance of mitigating direct human impacts as species continue to suffer environmental changes beyond our immediate control.</span></p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(205, 102, 95); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(28, 29, 30);" class=""><b class="">============================</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">"We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing."</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">"We are not able even to think adequately about the behavior that </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">is at the annihilating edge."</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">R. D. Laing. Introduction, The Politics of Experience. </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">1967, New York. Pantheon Books, a division of Random House</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); 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(205, 102, 95); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><b class="">============================</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">“Consumer expectations of ever-higher living standards were fuelled by more lenient and readily available bank lending, …. 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; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">"Identifying oneself with the good life meant being able to live beyond traditional understandings of basic needs. Debt was the price </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">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; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" 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(17, 85, 204); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" 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 class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">
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