<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 class=""><br class=""></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(0, 249, 0);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><b class="">~~~~~~~ !!</b></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><b class=""> <i class=""> S </i></b></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 38, 0);" class=""><b class=""><i class="">E </i></b></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><b class=""><i class="">A </i></b></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 38, 0);" class=""><b class=""><i class="">S</i></b></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><b class=""><i class=""> O N </i></b></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 38, 0);" class=""><b class=""><i class="">S</i></b></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><b class=""><i class=""> G </i></b></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 38, 0);" class=""><b class=""><i class="">R</i></b></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><b class=""><i class=""> E </i></b></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 38, 0);" class=""><b class=""><i class="">E </i></b></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><b class=""><i class="">T </i></b></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 38, 0);" class=""><b class=""><i class="">I </i></b></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><b class=""><i class="">N </i></b></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 38, 0);" class=""><b class=""><i class="">G</i></b></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><b class=""><i class=""> S</i></b></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><b class=""><i class=""> </i>!!</b> <b class="">~~~~~~~</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></span></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; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><a href="https://news.google.com/articles/CBMiYGh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmZvcmJlcy5jb20vc2l0ZXMvam9zaHVhYmVja2VyLzIwMTkvMDkvMTcvd2h5LXdlLXNob3VsZC1zdG9wLWNlbGVicmF0aW5nLWNvbnN1bWVyaXNtL9IBZGh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmZvcmJlcy5jb20vc2l0ZXMvam9zaHVhYmVja2VyLzIwMTkvMDkvMTcvd2h5LXdlLXNob3VsZC1zdG9wLWNlbGVicmF0aW5nLWNvbnN1bWVyaXNtL2FtcC8?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen" class="">Why We Should Stop Celebrating Consumerism</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(32, 33, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Let's continue to admire success. But it is time to stop celebrating consumerism. Our society is longing for people who can tell the difference.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(32, 33, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-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="-webkit-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; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/joshuabecker/2019/09/17/why-we-should-stop-celebrating-consumerism/#25c3d1a142b4" class="">https://www.forbes.com/sites/joshuabecker/2019/09/17/why-we-should-stop-celebrating-consumerism/#25c3d1a142b4<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 238);" class=""></span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-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="-webkit-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="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/nov/27/reverend-billy-church-of-stop-shopping-black-friday" class="">The Church of Stop Shopping doesn't pull punches on its ...</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(102, 0, 153); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/nov/27/reverend-billy-church-of-stop-shopping-black-friday" class=""></a></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(84, 84, 84); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(112, 117, 122);" class="">Nov 27, 2015 - </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(106, 106, 106);" class="">Reverend Billy</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""> Talen and his group are returning to New York City this Black Friday to deliver a simple message to Americans: resist </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(18, 18, 18);" 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: 17px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-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; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/nov/27/reverend-billy-church-of-stop-shopping-black-friday" class="">https://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/nov/27/reverend-billy-church-of-stop-shopping-black-friday<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 238);" class=""></span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(84, 84, 84); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-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="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</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: 17px;" 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; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">A<a href="https://news.google.com/articles/CAIiEAvu22K9j9mshVha9QlDTnIqGQgEKhAIACoHCAow2Nb3CjDivdcCMP3ungY?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen" class="">re shoppers the biggest hurdle to corporations going green? Behavioral nudges could help</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="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Many consumers claim to care about the environment but research suggests they have other priorities when deciding what to buy. Understanding their psyche ...</span></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; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><a href="https://news.google.com/publications/CAAqBwgKMNjW9wow4r3XAg?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen" class="">CNBC</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: 17px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-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="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</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: 17px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-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="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">"The big challenge is still to deliver emissions reductions at the pace and scale needed, especially in a world 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="-webkit-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="-webkit-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); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Nature Climate Change MAY 2018 Published online: 27 April 2018 </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 105, 217); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-018-0155-4" class="">https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-018-0155-4</a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-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="-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: 17px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-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="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">“I just want it to be clear 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; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-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="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Extinction Rebellion’s radical philosophy</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">July 22 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; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><a href="https://thinkprogress.org/the-radical-philosophy-of-extinction-rebellion-5857d3955b57/" class="">https://thinkprogress.org/the-radical-philosophy-of-extinction-rebellion-5857d3955b57/<span style="-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: 17px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-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="-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: 17px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></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="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">“</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">In the late 1700s 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: 17px;" 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; -webkit-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="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(18, 18, 18);" 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: 17px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-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="-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: 17px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-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="-webkit-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="-webkit-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="-webkit-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; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><a href="https://theintercept.com/2019/09/15/trump-straws-plastic/" class="">https://theintercept.com/2019/09/15/trump-straws-plastic/<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(32, 33, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-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="-webkit-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); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-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="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">“Consumer expectations of ever-higher living standards were fuelled by more lenient and readily available bank lending, …. </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-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="-webkit-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="-webkit-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="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">"Identifying oneself with the good life meant being able to live beyond traditional understandings of basic needs. Debt was the price one paid for the joys of being part of a hedonistic consumer culture.”</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-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="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Kenneth Dyson. The Morality of Debt. Foreign Affairs. May 3, 2015</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 105, 217); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><a href="https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2015-05-03/morality-debt" class="">https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2015-05-03/morality-debt<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 105, 217); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-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="-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: 17px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-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="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">“The ecological systems upon which humans rely for life support are in crisis, and human behavior is the root cause.”</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Elise Amel, Christie Manning, Britain Scott, Susan Koger</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-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="-webkit-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; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><a href="https://science.sciencemag.org/content/356/6335/275" class="">https://science.sciencemag.org/content/356/6335/275<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-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="-webkit-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="-webkit-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="-webkit-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="-webkit-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: 17px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-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="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~`</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: 17px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-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="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">"We are not able even to think adequately about the behavior </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">that is at the annihilating edge."</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-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="-webkit-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="-webkit-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="-webkit-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="-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: 17px;" 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, 17, 17); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">An <i class="">Ambio </i>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); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" 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, 17, 17); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">A team including the likes of Will Steffen, Paul Crutzen, Veerabhadren Ramathan, Johan Rockstrom, Marten Scheffer and Hans Joachim Schellnhuber begin the <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3357752/" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">abstract of their article</span></a> by saying “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); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" 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, 17, 17); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">They end it saying,“we risk driving the Earth System onto a trajectory toward more hostile states from which we cannot easily return.”</span></div><div class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class="">===================================================<br class="">“Ten thousand years ago there were between 1 and 5 million people on the planet. <br class="">There was plenty of room to expand and move, and resources seemed endless.” <br class=""><br class="">Niles Eldredge. Dominion. 1995. University of California Press.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="">
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