<html aria-label="message body"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">The numbers game is slick and shallow. If there was safety in numbers, Midwestern skies would still be filled by passenger pigeons and grizzlies themselves would still number in the tens of thousands<div><br></div><div><br><div>
<meta charset="UTF-8"><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid; overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br><span style="font-size: 12px;">~~~~~<br>"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.\u201d<br><br>Sonja van Renssen.The inconvenient truth of failed climate policies. Nature Climate Change MAY 2018<br><br>Published online: 27 April 2018 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-018-0155-4 <br><br>~~~~~<br><br>\u201cif Americans were asked point blank whether they would agree to reduce their energy consumption by one-half, many would probably recoil in apprehension and reject the idea. <br><br>"Yet energy consumption in 1960 was about half of what is now [ 1970 ]. Many of us remember 1960. Surely we had a civilized country then, with roads, electricity, entertainment, and so on. Yet we we were consuming half the energy.\u201d<br><br>Page 181 : The Conserver Society. Harper Colophon Books. Copyright 1979 by Kimon Valaskakas et al<br><br>*****<br><br> \u201cI just want it to be clear that the mainstream environmental movement has been asking very little of people for decades.\u201d<br><br>\u201cThere\u2019s no element of, \u2018We are in an emergency. We all need to do more than what we\u2019re doing.\u201d <br><br>Extinction Rebellion\u2019s radical philosophy<br>July 22 2019<br>https://thinkprogress.org/the-radical-philosophy-of-extinction-rebellion-5857d3955b57/<br><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br><br><br><br></div></div></div></div></div>
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