<div dir="ltr">Thanks Lance...good info....very important for deeds to match our words!<div><br></div><div>Patty</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Nov 25, 2021 at 8:39 AM Lance Olsen via Missoula-Community-News <<a href="mailto:missoula-community-news@bigskynet.org">missoula-community-news@bigskynet.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(33,255,6)"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><b>~~~~~~~ !!</b></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b> <i> S </i></b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(251,2,7)"><b><i>E </i></b></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><i>A </i></b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(251,2,7)"><b><i>S</i></b></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><i> O N </i></b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(251,2,7)"><b><i>S</i></b></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><i>    G </i></b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(251,2,7)"><b><i>R</i></b></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><i> E </i></b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(251,2,7)"><b><i>E </i></b></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><i>T  </i></b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(251,2,7)"><b><i>I </i></b></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><i>N </i></b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(251,2,7)"><b><i>G</i></b></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><i> S</i></b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><b><i> </i>!!</b> <b>~~~~~~~</b></span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);min-height:17px"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(16,60,192);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="text-decoration:underline"><a href="https://news.google.com/articles/CBMiYGh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmZvcmJlcy5jb20vc2l0ZXMvam9zaHVhYmVja2VyLzIwMTkvMDkvMTcvd2h5LXdlLXNob3VsZC1zdG9wLWNlbGVicmF0aW5nLWNvbnN1bWVyaXNtL9IBZGh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmZvcmJlcy5jb20vc2l0ZXMvam9zaHVhYmVja2VyLzIwMTkvMDkvMTcvd2h5LXdlLXNob3VsZC1zdG9wLWNlbGVicmF0aW5nLWNvbnN1bWVyaXNtL2FtcC8?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Why We Should Stop Celebrating Consumerism</a></span></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(24,25,27);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">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="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(24,25,27);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);min-height:17px"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(24,25,27);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Forbes magazine</span></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,233);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="text-decoration:underline"><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/joshuabecker/2019/09/17/why-we-should-stop-celebrating-consumerism/#25c3d1a142b4" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">https://www.forbes.com/sites/joshuabecker/2019/09/17/why-we-should-stop-celebrating-consumerism/#25c3d1a142b4<span style="color:rgb(0,0,233)"></span></a></span></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,233);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);min-height:17px"><span style="text-decoration:underline"></span><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(26,26,26);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~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e="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(66,66,66);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);min-height:17px"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">"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="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);min-height:17px"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Sonja van Renssen.The inconvenient truth of failed climate policies.</span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);min-height:17px"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> </span><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Nature Climate Change  MAY 2018  Published online: 27 April 2018 </span></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(9,80,208);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="text-decoration:underline"><a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-018-0155-4" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-018-0155-4</a></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);min-height:17px"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);min-height:17px"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">“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="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);min-height:17px"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Extinction Rebellion’s radical philosophy</span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">July 22 2019</span></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(9,80,208);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="text-decoration:underline"><a href="https://thinkprogress.org/the-radical-philosophy-of-extinction-rebellion-5857d3955b5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>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</b></span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);min-height:17px"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">“Consumer expectations of ever-higher living standards were fuelled by more lenient and readily available bank lending, …. </span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);min-height:17px"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">“Social status and identity became closely associated with consumption, in particular with the concept of luxury. </span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);min-height:17px"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">"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="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);min-height:17px"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Kenneth Dyson. The Morality of Debt. Foreign Affairs. May 3, 2015</span></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(9,80,208);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="text-decoration:underline"><a href="https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2015-05-03/morality-debt" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2015-05-03/morality-debt<span style="color:rgb(9,80,208)"></span></a></span></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(9,80,208);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);min-height:17px"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);min-height:17px"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">“The ecological systems upon which humans rely for life support are in crisis, and human behavior is the root cause.”</span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);min-height:17px"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> </span><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Elise Amel, Christie Manning, Britain Scott, Susan Koger</span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);min-height:17px"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Beyond the Roots of Human Inaction. Science 21 April 2017</span></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(9,80,208);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="text-decoration:underline"><a href="https://science.sciencemag.org/content/356/6335/275" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">https://science.sciencemag.org/content/356/6335/275<span style="color:rgb(9,80,208)"></span></a></span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);min-height:17px"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">“The American way of life is not negotiable.”</span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);min-height:17px"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">George H. W. Bush. 1992</span></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(66,66,66);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);min-height:17px"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(66,66,66);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~`</span></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(66,66,66);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);min-height:17px"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">"We are not able even to think adequately about the behavior </span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">that is at the annihilating edge."</span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);min-height:17px"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">R. D. Laing. Introduction, The Politics of Experience. </span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">1967, New York. Pantheon Books, a division of Random House</span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);min-height:17px"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);min-height:17px"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(14,14,14);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">An <i>Ambio </i>article by some heavyweights in climate science sets out the situation well enough. </span></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(14,14,14);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);min-height:17px"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(14,14,14);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">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/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(38,38,38)">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="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(14,14,14);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);min-height:17px"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-variant-ligatures:normal;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(14,14,14);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">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 style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-variant-ligatures:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><div dir="auto"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">——————————————</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">“ … we are committed to a high level of consumption because, whether we need the goods or not, we very much need the employment their production provides.”<br>John K. Galbraith.<br><br><br>“How much should a country consume?”<br>In Jarrett, Henry (editor), Perspectives on Conservation. John Hopkins Press. 1958</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">——————————————</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div>Consumer spending: an engine for U.S. job growth - Bureau of ...<br><a href="https://www.bls.gov/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">https://www.bls.gov</a> › opub › mlr › 2002/11<br>PDF<br>by M Toossi · 2002 · Cited by 30 — spending was 83.2 million, accounting for 62 percent of total employment in the economy. Consumer spending is projected to add 11.3 million net new jobs by …<br>———————————————</div><div><br>Consumer spending and US employment from the 2007–2009 ...
Through 2022, consumer spending is projected to support stable job growth with increasing expenditures on labor-intensive services like health care. However, ...</div><div><br></div></div></div><div>
<div dir="auto" style="text-align:start;text-indent:0px;word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:normal;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none">——————————————</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:normal;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:normal;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none">“ … we are committed to a high level of consumption because, whether we need the goods or not, we very much need the employment their production provides.”<br>John K. Galbraith.<br><br><br>“How much should a country consume?”<br>In Jarrett, Henry (editor), Perspectives on Conservation. John Hopkins Press. 1958</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:normal;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:normal;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none">——————————————</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:normal;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><br></div><div>Consumer spending: an engine for U.S. job growth - Bureau of ...<br><a href="https://www.bls.gov" target="_blank">https://www.bls.gov</a> › opub › mlr › 2002/11<br>PDF<br>by M Toossi · 2002 · Cited by 30 — spending was 83.2 million, accounting for 62 percent of total employment in the economy. Consumer spending is projected to add 11.3 million net new jobs by …<br>———————————————</div><div><br>Consumer spending and US employment from the 2007–2009 ...
Through 2022, consumer spending is projected to support stable job growth with increasing expenditures on labor-intensive services like health care. However, ...</div></div>
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