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.....globalization, the populist reaction to it, an ever-widening chasm of wealth disparity, and climate change are inextricably linked....the conjoined global elites from the worlds of politics, commerce and celebrity....are, by now, fully aware of the limits to the earth’s resources, and have concluded that there is no longer room for both them and everybody else to fully satiate their material desires.
    -- John Davis

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