“is low salaries,” he said. “I’ve got children to feed. We’re not just imbeciles. They treat us like cattle. We can’t accept it.”

“Even if individual lifestyles do play an important role, it is plainly evident that average levels of consumption and emissions rise sharply with level of income..”

http://piketty.blog.lemonde.fr...

“Most significantly, the National Climate Assessment—which is endorsed by NASA, NOAA, the Department of Defense, and 10 other federal scientific agencies—contradicts nearly every position taken on the issue by President Donald Trump....”

https://www.theatlantic.com/sc...

An economic environment where a company is only considered viable if it's constantly expanding and increasing its production can't be expected to pump its own brakes over something as trivial as pending global catastrophe. Instead, market logic dictates that rather than take the financial hit that comes with cutting profits, it's more reasonable to find a way to make money off the boiling ocean....". Where are the brakes?

https://www.gq.com/story/billi...