There you go exposing your blind spot again.

How many people do you know in the less developed world where most of the worlds people live? Almost everyone you know it part of the world's elite. Certainly, the Middle-Class people you talk about are part of the elite. Even the working class in the UK are in the top 20% of the world by income or wealth. You exclude yourself and your peers from the elite by redefining it to "ruling elite." Maybe you like me are extraordinary in that you don't consume like your peers.

Your call to curb our consumption is correct but what you don't point out is how privileged we (the elite) are and recognize we are the problem, and it is us who encourages the Fossil fuel producers and goods manufacturers to create the products that are destroying the planet.

It is not ordinary people; it is spoiled rotten privileged elites who are most of the population in developed countries that are destroying the planet. To claim this is ordinary is a disgrace, it is hedonistic orgy of consumption by the privileged.

I have seen this quote or something similar, too many times "just 100 companies responsible for 71% of global emissions, study says" What that does not make clear is that the emissions do not come from the company's operations but from the company's products that we consume.

You again properly point out consumption is the problem not production. We need to curb the consumer not the producer. We need to ration carbon at the consumer level.

TEK