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we face an American election unlike any other. It will determine not only the course of the American experiment but the path that civilization collectively follows.
for - quote - Michael Mann - quote - 2024 U.S. elections - future of civilization - quote - existential threat of 2024 Trump win - polycrisis - politics - inequality - climate
quote - Michael Mann - date: May 11, 2023 - source: The Hill - Op Ed - https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/4290467-trump-2-0-the-climate-cannot-survive-another-trump-term/ - (see below)
- It is not an overstatement to say, one year out, that
- we face an American election unlike any other.
- It will determine
- not only the course of the American experiment
- but the path that civilization collectively follows.
- On the left is democracy and environmental stewardship.
- On the right is fascism and planetary devastation.
- Choose wisely.
- It is not an overstatement to say, one year out, that
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- Dec 2023
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climateuncensored.com climateuncensored.com
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This 1% of humanity uses its awesome power to manipulate societal aspirations and the narratives around climate change. These extend from well-funded advertising to pseudo-technical solutions, from the financialisation of carbon emissions (and increasingly, nature) to labelling extreme any meaningful narrative that questions inequality and power.
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for: quote - Kevin Anderson, quote - elite positive feedback carbon inequality loop, climate crisis - societal aspirations, elites - societal aspirations, societal aspirations, key insight - societal aspirations
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- This 1% of humanity uses its awesome power to manipulate
- societal aspirations and
- the narratives around climate change.
- These extend from
- well-funded advertising to
- pseudo-technical solutions,
- and financialisation of carbon emissions (and increasingly, nature) to
- labelling extreme any meaningful narrative that questions inequality and power.
- This 1% of humanity uses its awesome power to manipulate
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- key insight - societal aspirations
- it is the societal aspiration of the logic of capitalism and the free market that continues to create the next generation of the 1%
- How can the luxury industry NOT BE high carbon intensity? It's an oxymoron. High carbon is baked into the definition of luxury, and it is luxury goods and services which accelerate climate breakdown.
- The elites have a strong feeling of entitlement. They feel they DESERVE to reward themselves with a luxury lifestyle. That aspiration and reward structure multiplied by 80 million (1% of 8 billion) is a major variable driving the climate crisis
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www.terrestres.org www.terrestres.org
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its design as by its original destination, the car is a luxury good. And luxury, in essence, cannot be democratized: if everyone has access to luxury, no one benefits from it; on the contrary: everyone cheats, frustrates and dispossesses others and is cheated, frustrated and dispossessed by them.
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for: quote - luxury cannot be democratized, 1% - democracy, elites - democracy, adjacency - luxury - democracy, luxury is not democratic, luxury is inequality, Andre Gorz, Terrestrial website, adjancency - luxury - democracy, quote luxury
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- ... By its design as by its original destination, the car is a luxury good. And luxury, in essence, cannot be democratized: if everyone has access to luxury, no one benefits from it; on the contrary: everyone cheats, frustrates and dispossesses others and is cheated, frustrated and dispossessed by them.
- author: Andre Gorz
- date: Sept. 25, 2023
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- insightful comment reveals an adjacency between luxury and democracy that is obvious in hindsight, but missed seeing in foresight!
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adjacency between:
- luxury
- democracy
- adjacency statement
- luxury is, by definition a premium artefact so by definition is beyond the reach of most people. It is therefore un-democratic by design.
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- Aug 2023
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docdrop.org docdrop.org
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what I'm advocating here isn't radical redistribution it's merely more 00:13:08 redistribution in a and structurally dependable manner that is fair that is inclusive and that allows for the poor and improvised Nations to be granted excess not just a vital strategic resources that are very much needed in 00:13:21 maintaining the quality of life at own citizens but also more importantly the ropes to climb the ladder
- for: W2W, TPF, stats, inequality, wealth redistribution, wealth tax, quote, quote - wealth tax, quote - inequality, stats, stats - inequality, stats - wealth tax
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- An annual wealth tax of just 5% on multi-millionaires and billionaires
- could raise US $1.7 trillion a year
- enough to lift 2 billion people out of poverty
- author Institute for Policy (2023)
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- that breaks down to approximately $US 1,000 per person for 2 billion people from the 1% elites
- this is pretty reasonable
- W2W can begin with this simple VOLUNTARY ASK
- if the multi-millionaires and billionaires do just this consistently, then it is so little from their coffers and they could avoid a wealth tax by simply stepping up voluntarily
- Could W2W motivate them to?
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there's the unsustainable lifestyle of so many of us and I include myself I have far more than I need and 00:10:11 some people take this to excess and they have way way way more than they could ever possibly need and this is something that somehow we have to change
- for: quote, quote - W2W, quote - inequality, quote - jane goodall
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- there's the unsustainable lifestyle of so many of us
- and I include myself
- I have far more than I need and
- some people take this to excess and they have way way way more than they could ever possibly need and
- this is something that somehow we have to change
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- this supports the need for the W2W program
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- Jul 2023
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davidkorten.org davidkorten.org
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The surplus of life’s labor is not sufficient to con-tinue bearing the burden of a caste system devoted tocontrolling the many so a few can indulge in egotisti-cal displays of privilege on a dying Earth. The more ofhumanity’s labor we devote to maintaining the system ofdomination, the less that is available to secure life’s wellbe-ing and the more rapid the living system’s collapse.
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for: caste system, caste, inequality, carbon inequality,
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- "The surplus of life’s labor
- is not sufficient to continue bearing the burden of a caste system
- devoted to controlling the many so a few can indulge in egotistical displays of privilege on a dying Earth. -The more of humanity’s labor we devote to maintaining the system of domination (by the few),
- the less that is available to secure life’s wellbeing (for all) and the more rapid the living system’s collapse."
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- David Korten
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new adjacency
- articulating inequality as a caste system
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davidkorten.org davidkorten.orgAbout Us1
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We see virtually no prospect that the Wall Street system will transform itself from within. Change depends on citizen’s working from outside the establishment to create from the bottom up a New Economy based on new values and institutions.
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- "We see virtually no prospect that the Wall Street system will transform itself from within.
- Change depends on citizen’s working from outside the establishment
- to create from the bottom up a New Economy based on new values and institutions."
- Author
- David Korten
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- Mar 2023
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www.sciencedirect.com www.sciencedirect.com
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1% of the world's population is responsible for an estimated 50% of emissions from commercial air transport, most of this associated with premium class air travel of affluent frequent fliers
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- carbon inequality stat
- 1% of the world's population is responsible for 50% of emissions from commercial air transport
- carbon inequality stat
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5245 superyachts with lengths of 30–180 m in 2021, a five-fold increase from 1090 yachts in 1990
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the top 1% now being responsible for 17% of total emissions, the top 10% for 48%, and the bottom half of the world population for only 12% (in 2019).
Quotable carbon inequality stats: - the top 1% responsible for 17% of total emissions, - the top 10% for 48%, - the bottom 50% for12% - stats carbon inequality - quote carbon inequality - 2019
// A key question is also this: - what are individuals using those carbon emissions for? - is it being used just for luxury consumption - or is it being used to develop and actionize scalable low carbon strategies? - if it is the later, it could be seen as a de-carbon investment
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close to two thirds of the overall carbon footprint of those billionaires owning yachts is caused by yacht-ownership. This implies a contribution to climate change that is up to 6500 times greater for these individuals than the global average of 4.5 t CO2 per capita and year, or up to 300,000 times greater than the contribution of the poorest, at 0.1 t CO2 per person and year
Yacht stats: - close to two thirds of the overall carbon footprint of those billionaires owning yachts is caused by yacht-ownership. - Carbon footprint is - 6500 times greater than the global average of 4.5 t CO2 per person per year, - 300,000 times greater than the poorest, at 0.1 t CO2 per person and year - stats - carbon inequality - quote - carbon inequality
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the top 0.01% emitting in excess of 2300 t CO2-e per capita in 2019, compared to 6 t CO2-e on global average.
Quotable carbon inequality stats: - top 0.01% emit more than 2300 t CO2-e per capita in 2019, - global average is 6 t CO2-e - therefore, the top 0.01% emit 2300/6 = 383x more than the global average. - quote - carbon inequality - stats - carbon inequality
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