<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/feda0b97-42b9-45ca-83dd-f70804687e9a/B72D03B1-D970-4CA6-AE33-7544F5B65770/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.sciencewa.net.au/index.php?Itemid=587&id=2201&option=com_content&task=view" href="http://www.sciencewa.net.au/index.php?Itemid=587&id=2201&option=com_content&task=view" style="font-size: 11px;">www.sciencewa.net.au</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.sciencewa.net.au/index.php?Itemid=587&id=2201&option=com_content&task=view"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD width="100%" class="contentheading">Scientists in a bid to help cure affluenza </TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.sciencewa.net.au/index.php?Itemid=587&id=2201&option=com_content&task=view"><B>ARE you suffering from affluenza? In his book on the subject, Dr Clive Hamilton, former head of the Australia Institute, described it as “people spending money they don’t have to buy goods they don’t need to impress people they don’t like”.</B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.sciencewa.net.au/index.php?Itemid=587&id=2201&option=com_content&task=view"><P> But affluenza is making the planet sick. Burning fossil fuels in a desperate bid for energy to produce stuff is the main driver of carbon emissions that have led to global warming, while land clearing and unprecedented population growth place further stress on Earth. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.sciencewa.net.au/index.php?Itemid=587&id=2201&option=com_content&task=view"><P> In a paper published in <I>Nature</I>, American think tank the Worldwatch Institute says the world’s ecological capacity is simply insufficient to satisfy the consuming passions of every nation. </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/B72D03B1-D970-4CA6-AE33-7544F5B65770/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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