“An average American, for example, consumes thirty-two times more resources and energy than an average Kenyan. A new human being born on Earth will have a carbon footprint a thousand times greater if she is born into a rich family in a rich country, than into a poor family in a poor country. Should the Yanomami Indians, who hunt, fish and garden in the Amazonian forest, working three hours a day with no fossil fuel (and whose gardens have a yield in energy terms nine times higher than the French farmers of the highly fertile Beauce), feel responsible for the climate change of the Anthropocene? A recent report shows that the 1 per cent richest individuals on the planet monopolize 48 per cent of the world’s wealth, while the poorer half of humanity have to make do with 1 per cent. The eighty richest individuals in the world have a combined income higher than that of the 416 million poorest – each one earning more than a million times that of their fellow humans!”