<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear friends,<br class=""><div><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This is such a fine article that Iā€™m taking the liberty of circulating a link:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">        </span><b class="">No country on Earth is taking the 2 degree climate target seriously</b></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">    </span><a href="http://www.vox.com/2016/10/4/13118594/2-degrees-no-more-fossil-fuels" class="">http://www.vox.com/2016/10/4/13118594/2-degrees-no-more-fossil-fuels</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This piece by David Roberts is simply superb, required reading by everyone concerned with climate change ā€“ and more importantly by everyone who has not thought seriously about it. The political culture of every nation in the developed world is in complete denial with respect to what needs to be done to avoid rendering our planet uninhabitable. With unambiguous science and a handful of graphs, Roberts illustrates the cognitive dissonance that characterizes current global politics on climate change.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If you would like to dig deeper, the report (by Oil Change International) that the article is based on is:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">    </span>The Sky's Limit: Why the Paris Climate Goals Require a managed decline of fossil fuel production</b></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">   </span><a href="http://priceofoil.org/content/uploads/2016/09/OCI_the_skys_limit_2016_FINAL_2.pdf" class="">http://priceofoil.org/content/uploads/2016/09/OCI_the_skys_limit_2016_FINAL_2.pdf</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;" class="">If you read only one article today, let this be it ā€“ and then encourage your friends to do the same.</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class="">Cheers,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Chris</div><br class=""><br class=""><div class="">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; border-spacing: 0px;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Christopher Majka<br class="">Democracy: Vox Populi<br class=""><a href="https://www.facebook.com/democracyvoxpopuli" class="">https://www.facebook.com/democracyvoxpopuli</a><br class="">Email: <<a href="mailto:c.majka@ns.sympatico.ca" class="">c.majka@ns.sympatico.ca</a>> ā€“ Tel: (902) 425-3725 <br class=""> <br class=""><i class="">Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.</i> - Albert Einstein<br class=""><br class=""></div></span>
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