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On average, Americans consume more than three times the amount of food they need to survive and about 250 times as much water.14 In return, they prod… - David A. Sinclair
" "On average, Americans consume more than three times the amount of food they need to survive and about 250 times as much water.14 In return, they produce 4.4 pounds of trash each day, recycling or composting only about of a third of it.15 Thanks to things such as cars, planes, big homes, and power-hungry clothes dryers,16 the annual carbon dioxide emissions of an average American are five times as high as the global average. Even the “floor” — below which even monks living in American monasteries typically do not go — is twice the global average.17 It
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As the venture capitalist and "very large yacht" owner Nick Hanauer wrote in a memo to "My Fellow Zillionaires" in 2014, there is no example in human history where wealth accumulated like this and the pitchforks didn't eventually come out. You show me a highly unequal society, and I will show you a police state. Or an uprising. There are no counterexamples. None. . . . We will not be able to predict when, and it will be terrible — for everybody. But especially for us.
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