<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; background-color: rgb(251, 251, 251);" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(16, 60, 192); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(12, 12, 12); 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(26, 26, 26); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">The Lancet goes off the deep end, devaluing human life as no more important than animals</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(16, 60, 192); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/01/emthe_lancetem_goes_off_the_deep_end_devaluing_human_life_as_no_more_important_than_animals.html" class="">https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/01/the_lancetem_goes_off_the_deep_end_devaluing_human_life_as_no_more_important_than_animals.html</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class=""></b></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">“… man hath no pre-eminence above the beast: for all is vanity.” </b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">Ecclesiastes 3:18–20</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); min-height: 11px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">=================================</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class=""></b></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">"We’re logically left with one primary path: cutting the demand for fossil fuels.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">“The hard truth about this path, a truth the Davos elite and most mainstream media seem reluctant to acknowledge, is that it will require personal sacrifices, especially from the world’s wealthiest people. </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">"On average, the top 1% of global earners – people who earn $130,000 a year or more – cause 110 metric tonnes of carbon emissions each year per person. For perspective, that’s about 2,200 times the carbon burden of a typical citizen of Burundi.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">“The world’s 1-percenters out-polluted the poorest half of humanity twice over between 1990 and 2015, and recent estimates suggest they are collectively responsible for more than 11 times the annual greenhouse gas emissions attributed to notorious climate villain ExxonMobil. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class="">Meanwhile, the top 10% – which includes earners who make $39,100 a year, a middle class income for individuals in Global North countries like the US – produce nearly half of all carbon harms. </span></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class="">"No arithmetically coherent plan to cut carbon emissions can ignore this reality.”</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; 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(9, 79, 209);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://science.thewire.in/environment/technofixes-elites-responsibility-climate-crisis/" class="">https://science.thewire.in/environment/technofixes-elites-responsibility-climate-crisis/<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(9, 79, 209);" class=""></span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; 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(251, 2, 7);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">=================================</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; 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(63, 63, 63);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/cleaner-production-letters" class="">Cleaner Production Letters</a> <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/cleaner-production-letters/vol/4/suppl/C" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(18, 104, 173);" class="">Volume 4</span></a></span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #232323" class="">, June 2023</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: right; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(18, 104, 173); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/cleaner-production-letters/vol/4/suppl/C" class=""></a></span><br class=""></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(63, 63, 63);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><b class="">Millionaire spending incompatible with 1.5 °C ambitions</b></span></p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(18, 104, 173);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">StefanGössling AndreasHumpe</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(18, 104, 173);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(18, 104, 173);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clpl.2022.100027" class="">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clpl.2022.100027<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(18, 104, 173);" class=""></span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(35, 35, 35);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Under a Creative Commons <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(18, 104, 173);" class="">license</span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(35, 35, 35);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><i class="">Open access</i></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(63, 63, 63);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">Abstract</b></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(35, 35, 35);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Much evidence suggests that the wealthiest individuals contribute disproportionally to climate change. Here we study the implications of a continued growth in the number of millionaires for emissions, and its impact on the depletion of the remaining carbon budget to limit global warming to 1.5 °C (about 400 Gt CO2). To this end, we present a model that extrapolates observed growth in millionaire numbers (1990–2020) and associated changes in emissions to 2050. Our findings suggest that the share of US$2020-millionaires in the world population will grow from 0.7% today to 3.3% in 2050, and cause accumulated emissions of 286 Gt CO2. This is equivalent to 72% of the remaining carbon budget, and significantly reduces the chance of stabilizing climate change at 1.5 °C.</span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffff0a" class=""> Continued growth in emissions at the top makes a low-carbon transition less likely, as the acceleration of energy consumption by the wealthiest is likely beyond the system's capacity to decarbonize. </span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">To this end, we question whether policy designs such as progressive taxes targeting the high emitters will be sufficient</span></p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; 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(251, 2, 7);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">=================================</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">"In 1972, pursuing his calculations of ice-cover feedbacks, Budyko declared that, at the rate we were pumping CO2 into the atmosphere, the ice covering the Arctic Ocean might melt entirely by 2050." </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">"Most scientists spoke more cautiously.”</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Spencer Weart. The Discovery of Rapid Climate Change. </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Physics Today, American Institute of Physics</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><<<a href="https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.1611350" class="">https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.1611350</a>>></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class=""></b></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">=================================</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">“… the serious meaning in a concept lies in the difference it will make to someone if it is true.”</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">William James (1842 –1910)</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Pragmatism. Meridian Books, 1955</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class="">
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