<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=""><a href="https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/ocean/surface/currents/overlay=sea_surface_temp/orthographic=-172.09,42.84,983/loc=-168.951,48.482" class="">https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/ocean/surface/currents/overlay=sea_surface_temp/orthographic=-172.09,42.84,983/loc=-168.951,48.482</a><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
<div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(255, 38, 0);" class="">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class="">Book review : Under the Sky We Make. Kimberly Nicholas, PhD</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; min-height: 17px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(60, 56, 48); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(60, 56, 48); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><b class="">Excerpt : </b></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class="">Individual responsibility has become something of a flashpoint in the climate discourse. On the one hand, </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">oil companies <a href="https://grist.org/energy/footprint-fantasy/" class="">love to harp on about</a> personal carbon footprints as a way of distracting from their much larger contributions to the climate crisis, both through the fossil fuel products they make and their longstanding, ongoing efforts to delay climate action and misinform the public. </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class="">At the same time</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">, prominent journalists and scientists have waved off individual climate actions as a distraction from the systemic changes that are needed to solve the crisis — changes like overhauling our electricity and transit systems through governmental investments in clean energy, better regulation, and carbon pricing. </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class="">They’re joined by</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""> a growing chorus of climate justice advocates who rightly point out that asking poor people to make difficult dietary shifts or give up the car they need to get to work is completely unfair.</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(60, 56, 48); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(60, 56, 48); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(60, 56, 48); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(60, 56, 48); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">That’s not what Nicholas is doing. Her message isn’t aimed at folks struggling to make ends meet, but at people making a middle-class income or higher who live in a wealthy country like the United States, Germany, or France. Far from a distraction, Nicholas argues that the climate impact of the carbon elite is something we need to focus on — individually and systematically. She points out that globally, more than two-thirds of climate pollution can be <a href="https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/es803496a" class="">attributed to household consumption</a>, and that the richest 10 percent of the world population — those making <a href="https://wedocs.unep.org/xmlui/bitstream/handle/20.500.11822/34432/EGR20ch6.pdf?sequence=3" class="">more than $38,000 a year</a> — is responsible for about half of those emissions. </span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(60, 56, 48); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(60, 56, 48); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(60, 56, 48); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(60, 56, 48); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">https://grist.org/culture/cutting-your-carbon-footprint-matters-a-lot-if-youre-rich/</span></div></div>
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