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style="font-family:lato,helvetica neue,helvetica,arial,sans-serif">Capitalism
                                                Created the Climate
                                                Catastrophe; Socialism
                                                Can Avert Disaster. The
                                                Thirty-Fifth Newsletter
                                                (2022)</span></span></span></strong>
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                                                style="color: #ba2025;">George
                                                Bahgoury (Egypt), <i>Untitled</i>,
                                                2015.</span></p>
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                                            friends,</p>
                                          <p style="margin: 10px
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                                            150%;text-align: left;">Greetings
                                            from the desk of <a
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                                              moz-do-not-send="true">Tricontinental:
                                              Institute for Social
                                              Research</a>.</p>
                                          <p style="margin: 10px
                                            0;padding:
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100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family:
                                            Helvetica;font-size:
                                            16px;line-height:
                                            150%;text-align: left;">In
                                            November 2022, most member
                                            states of the United Nations
                                            (UN) will gather in the
                                            Egyptian resort city of
                                            Sharm El Sheikh for the
                                            annual UN Climate Change
                                            Conference. This is the 27<sup>th</sup>
                                            conference of the parties to
                                            assess the UN Framework
                                            Convention on Climate
                                            Change, commonly referred to
                                            as COP 27. The international
                                            environmental treaty was
                                            established in Rio de
                                            Janeiro in 1992, with the
                                            first conference held in
                                            Berlin in 1995; the
                                            agreements were extended in
                                            the Kyoto Protocol of 2005
                                            and supplemented by the
                                            Paris Agreement of 2015. No
                                            more needs to be said of the
                                            climate catastrophe, which
                                            threatens mass species
                                            extinction. The move away
                                            from carbon-based fuel has
                                            been stalled by three main
                                            impediments:</p>
                                          <ol>
                                            <li aria-level="1"
                                              style="mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Right-wing
                                              forces which deny the
                                              existence of climate
                                              change.</li>
                                            <li aria-level="1"
                                              style="mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Sections
                                              of the energy industry
                                              which have a vested
                                              interest in the
                                              continuation of
                                              carbon-based fuel.</li>
                                            <li aria-level="1"
                                              style="mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Western
                                              countries’ refusal to
                                              admit that they remain
                                              principally responsible
                                              for the problem and to
                                              commit to repaying their
                                              climate debt by financing
                                              the energy transition in
                                              developing countries whose
                                              wealth they continue to
                                              siphon off.</li>
                                          </ol>
                                          <p style="margin: 10px
                                            0;padding:
                                            0;mso-line-height-rule:
                                            exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family:
                                            Helvetica;font-size:
                                            16px;line-height:
                                            150%;text-align: left;">In
                                            public debates over the
                                            climate catastrophe, there
                                            is barely any reference to
                                            the Rio Earth Summit of 1992
                                            and the treaty that <a
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                                            ‘The global nature of
                                            climate change calls for the
                                            widest possible cooperation
                                            by all countries and their
                                            participation in an
                                            effective and appropriate
                                            international response, in
                                            accordance with their common
                                            but differentiated
                                            responsibilities and
                                            respective capabilities and
                                            their social and economic
                                            conditions’. The phrase
                                            ‘common but differentiated
                                            responsibilities’ is an
                                            acknowledgement of the fact
                                            that while the problem of
                                            climate change is common to
                                            all countries and none are
                                            immune to its deleterious
                                            impact, the responsibility
                                            of countries is not
                                            identical. Some countries –
                                            which have benefited from
                                            colonialism and carbon fuel
                                            for centuries – have a
                                            greater responsibility for
                                            the transition to a
                                            decarbonised energy system.</p>
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                                                style="color: #ba2025;">Roger
                                                Mortimer (Aotearoa/New
                                                Zealand), <i>Whariwharangi</i>,
                                                2019.</span></p>
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                                          <p style="margin: 10px
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                                            150%;text-align: left;">The
                                            scholarship on the matter is
                                            clear: Western countries
                                            have benefited inordinately
                                            from both colonialism and
                                            carbon fuel to attain their
                                            level of development. The <a
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                                            from the Global Carbon
                                            Project, which was headed by
                                            the US Department of
                                            Energy’s now defunct Carbon
                                            Dioxide Information Analysis
                                            Centre, shows that the
                                            United States has been far
                                            and away the largest
                                            producer of carbon dioxide
                                            emissions since 1750. By
                                            itself, the United States
                                            has emitted more CO<sub>2</sub>
                                            than the entire European
                                            Union, twice as much as
                                            China, and eight times more
                                            than India. The main carbon
                                            emitters were all colonial
                                            powers, namely the US,
                                            Europe, Canada, and
                                            Australia, which, despite
                                            consisting of roughly one
                                            tenth of the global
                                            population, have together
                                            accounted for more than half
                                            of cumulative global
                                            emissions. From the 18<sup>th</sup>
                                            century on, these countries
                                            have not only dispensed the
                                            bulk of the carbon in the
                                            atmosphere, but they
                                            continue to exceed their
                                            share of the global carbon
                                            budget.</p>
                                          <p style="margin: 10px
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                                            150%;text-align: left;">Carbon-fuelled
                                            capitalism, enriched by the
                                            wealth stolen through
                                            colonialism, has enabled the
                                            countries of Europe and
                                            North America to enhance the
                                            well-being of their
                                            populations and attain their
                                            relatively advanced level of
                                            development. The extreme
                                            inequalities between the
                                            standard of living for the
                                            average European (748
                                            million people) and the
                                            average Indian (1.4 billion
                                            people) is seven times
                                            greater than it was a
                                            century ago. Though the
                                            reliance by China, India,
                                            and other developing
                                            countries on carbon,
                                            particularly coal, has risen
                                            to a high level, their per
                                            capita emissions continue to
                                            remain far below those of
                                            the United States, whose per
                                            capita emissions are close
                                            to twice that of China’s and
                                            eight times more than
                                            India’s. The lack of
                                            acknowledgment of climate
                                            imperialism leads to a
                                            failure to properly resource
                                            the <a
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                                              Climate Fund</a>, which
                                            was created in 2010 at COP
                                            16 with the aim of helping
                                            developing countries
                                            ‘leapfrog’ carbon-fuelled
                                            social development.</p>
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                                          <p style="margin: 10px
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                                            the global level, debates on
                                            how to address the climate
                                            crisis frequently revolve
                                            around various forms of a
                                            Green New Deal (GND), such
                                            as the European Green Deal,
                                            the North American GND, and
                                            the Global GND, which are
                                            promoted by nation states,
                                            international organisations,
                                            and different sections of
                                            environmental movements. In
                                            order to better understand
                                            and strengthen this
                                            discussion, the
                                            Tricontinental: Institute
                                            for Social Research office
                                            in Buenos Aires, Argentina,
                                            gathered leading
                                            eco-socialist scholars to
                                            reflect on the different
                                            GNDs and the possibilities
                                            to realise a genuine
                                            transformation to stave off
                                            the climate catastrophe.
                                            That discussion – with José
                                            Seoane (Argentina), Thea
                                            Riofrancos (United States),
                                            and Sabrina Fernandes
                                            (Brazil) – is now available
                                            in notebook no. 3 (August
                                            2022), <a
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                                                Socioenvironmental
                                                Crisis in Times of the
                                                Pandemic: Discussing a
                                                Green New Deal</i></a>.</p>
                                          <p style="margin: 10px
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                                            150%;text-align: left;">These
                                            three scholars argue that
                                            capitalism cannot solve the
                                            climate crisis since
                                            capitalism is the principal
                                            cause of the crisis. One
                                            hundred of the world’s
                                            largest corporations are <a
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                                            for 71% of global industrial
                                            greenhouse gases (largely
                                            carbon dioxide and methane);
                                            these corporations, led by
                                            the carbon energy industry,
                                            are not prepared to
                                            accelerate the energy
                                            transition, despite the
                                            technological capacity to <a
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                                            eighteen times the global
                                            electricity demand by wind
                                            power alone. Sustainability,
                                            a word that has been emptied
                                            of its content in much
                                            public discourse, is not
                                            profitable for these
                                            corporations. A social
                                            renewable energy project,
                                            for example, would not
                                            produce vast profits for the
                                            fossil fuel companies.
                                            Interest from certain
                                            capitalist firms in the GND
                                            is substantially motivated
                                            by their desire to secure
                                            public funds to engineer new
                                            private monopolies for the
                                            same capitalist class that
                                            owns those large
                                            corporations that pollute
                                            the world. But, as
                                            Riofrancos explains in the
                                            notebook, ‘“Green
                                            capitalism” purports to
                                            mitigate the symptoms of
                                            capitalism – global warming,
                                            the mass extinction of
                                            species, the destruction of
                                            ecosystems – without
                                            transforming the model of
                                            accumulation and consumption
                                            that caused the climate
                                            crisis in the first place.
                                            It is a “techno-fix”: the
                                            fantasy of changing
                                            everything without changing
                                            anything’.</p>
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                                                style="color: #ba2025;">Gonzalo
                                                Ribero (Bolivia), <i>Ancestor</i>,
                                                2016.</span></p>
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                                          <p style="margin: 10px
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                                            16px;line-height:
                                            150%;text-align: left;">The
                                            mainstream discussion of GND
                                            emerges, as Seoane points
                                            out, from initiatives such
                                            as the 1989 Pearce report <i>Blueprint
                                              for a Green Economy</i>,
                                            which was prepared for the
                                            UK government and proposed
                                            the use of public funds to
                                            produce new technologies for
                                            private companies as a
                                            solution to the cascading
                                            crises in Western economies.
                                            The concept of the ‘green
                                            economy’ was not to green
                                            the economy, but to use the
                                            idea of environmentalism to
                                            revitalise capitalism. In
                                            2009, during the world
                                            financial crisis, Edward
                                            Barbier, a co-author of the
                                            Pearce Report, wrote a new <a
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                                            for the UN Environment
                                            Programme titled <i>Global
                                              Green New Deal</i>, which
                                            repackaged the ‘green
                                            economy’ ideas as the ‘green
                                            new deal’. This new report
                                            once more argued for public
                                            funds to stabilise
                                            turbulence in the capitalist
                                            system.</p>
                                          <p style="margin: 10px
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                                            150%;text-align: left;">Our
                                            notebook emerges from a
                                            different genealogy, one
                                            that is rooted in the <a
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                                              People’s Conference on
                                              Climate Change and the
                                              Rights of Mother Earth</a>
                                            (2010) and the <a
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                                              World Conference on
                                              Climate Change and the
                                              Defence of Life</a>
                                            (2015), both held in
                                            Tiquipaya, Bolivia and then
                                            developed in gatherings such
                                            as the <a
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                                              World Water Forum</a>
                                            (2018), the People’s Summit
                                            (2017), and the People’s
                                            Nature Forum (2020). At the
                                            heart of this approach,
                                            which grew out of the
                                            popular struggles in Latin
                                            America, are the concepts <i>buen
                                              vivir</i> and <i>teko
                                              porã</i> (‘living well’).
                                            Rather than simply saving
                                            capitalism, which is the
                                            concern of the GND argument,
                                            the point of our notebook is
                                            to think about changing the
                                            way we organise society, in
                                            other words, to advance our
                                            thinking about building a
                                            new system. Building these
                                            ideas, Fernandes says, must
                                            involve the trade unions
                                            (many of which are concerned
                                            about job loss in the
                                            transition from carbon to
                                            renewables) and peasant
                                            unions (many of which are
                                            gripped by the fact that
                                            land concentration destroys
                                            nature and creates social
                                            inequality).</p>
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                                                style="color: #ba2025;">Klay
                                                Kassem (Egypt), <i>The
                                                  Mermaid Wedding</i>,
                                                2021.</span></p>
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                                          <p style="margin: 10px
                                            0;padding:
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                                          <p style="margin: 10px
                                            0;padding:
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100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family:
                                            Helvetica;font-size:
                                            16px;line-height:
                                            150%;text-align: left;">We
                                            must change the system, as
                                            Fernandes argues, ‘but the
                                            political conditions today
                                            are not conducive to this.
                                            The right wing is strong in
                                            many countries, as is the
                                            denial of climate science’.
                                            Therefore, rapidly, the
                                            people’s movements must put
                                            a decarbonisation agenda on
                                            the table. Four goals lie
                                            before us:</p>
                                          <ol>
                                            <li aria-level="1"
                                              style="mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><b>Degrowth
                                                for Western countries. </b>With
                                              less than 5% of the
                                              world’s population, the
                                              United States consumes a
                                              third of the world’s
                                              paper, a quarter of the
                                              world’s oil, nearly a
                                              quarter of the world’s
                                              coal, and a quarter of its
                                              aluminium. The Sierra Club
                                              <a
href="https://thetricontinental.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6a79324d3b4acfde1e7e546c6&id=2fb9bad0df&e=d206d0a40d"
style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
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                                                #007C89;font-weight:
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                                                underline;"
                                                moz-do-not-send="true">says</a>
                                              that US per capita
                                              consumption ‘of energy,
                                              metals, minerals, forest
                                              products, fish, grains,
                                              meat and even fresh water
                                              dwarfs that of people
                                              living in the developing
                                              world’. Western countries
                                              need to cut back on their
                                              overall consumption,
                                              scaling back, as Jason
                                              Hickel <a
href="https://thetricontinental.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6a79324d3b4acfde1e7e546c6&id=d50208c9ca&e=d206d0a40d"
style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
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                                                underline;"
                                                moz-do-not-send="true">notes</a>,
                                              the ‘unnecessary and
                                              destructive ones’ (such as
                                              the fossil fuel and arms
                                              industries, the production
                                              of McMansions and private
                                              jets, the manner of
                                              industrial beef
                                              production, and the entire
                                              business philosophy of
                                              planned obsolescence).</li>
                                            <li aria-level="1"
                                              style="mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><b>Socialise
                                                the key sector of energy
                                                generation.</b> End
                                              subsidies to the fossil
                                              fuel industry and build a
                                              public energy sector that
                                              is rooted in a
                                              decarbonised energy
                                              system.</li>
                                            <li aria-level="1"
                                              style="mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><b>Fund
                                                the </b><a
href="https://thetricontinental.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6a79324d3b4acfde1e7e546c6&id=8d034c7ca7&e=d206d0a40d"
style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
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                                                #007C89;font-weight:
                                                normal;text-decoration:
                                                underline;"
                                                moz-do-not-send="true"><b>Global
                                                  Climate Action Agenda</b></a>.
                                              Ensure that Western
                                              countries fulfil their
                                              historic responsibilities
                                              in supporting the Green
                                              Climate Fund, which will
                                              be used to finance the
                                              just transition in the
                                              Global South in
                                              particular.</li>
                                            <li aria-level="1"
                                              style="mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><b>Enhance
                                                the public sector.</b>
                                              Build more infrastructure
                                              for social rather than
                                              private consumption, such
                                              as more high-speed rail
                                              and electric buses, to
                                              decrease the use of
                                              private cars. Countries of
                                              the Global South will have
                                              to build their own
                                              economies, including by
                                              exploiting their
                                              resources. The issue here
                                              is not entirely whether to
                                              exploit these resources
                                              but whether they can be <a
href="https://thetricontinental.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6a79324d3b4acfde1e7e546c6&id=8d40141ace&e=d206d0a40d"
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                                                underline;"
                                                moz-do-not-send="true">extracted</a>
                                              for social and national
                                              development and not merely
                                              for the accumulation of
                                              capital. <i>Buen vivir</i>
                                              – living well – means to
                                              transcend hunger and
                                              poverty, illiteracy and
                                              ill-health, which will be
                                              developed by the public
                                              sector.</li>
                                          </ol>
                                          <p style="margin: 10px
                                            0;padding:
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                                            Helvetica;font-size:
                                            16px;line-height:
                                            150%;text-align: left;">No
                                            climate policy can be
                                            universal. Those who devour
                                            the world’s resources must
                                            reduce their consumption.
                                            Two billion people have <a
href="https://thetricontinental.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6a79324d3b4acfde1e7e546c6&id=6ef28cb319&e=d206d0a40d"
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                                              moz-do-not-send="true">no
                                              access</a> to clean water,
                                            while half the world’s
                                            population does not have <a
href="https://thetricontinental.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6a79324d3b4acfde1e7e546c6&id=d0211a202c&e=d206d0a40d"
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                                            to adequate health care.
                                            Their social development
                                            must be guaranteed, but this
                                            development must be built on
                                            a sustainable, socialist
                                            foundation.</p>
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href="https://thetricontinental.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6a79324d3b4acfde1e7e546c6&id=8b72178dfa&e=d206d0a40d"
target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule:
                                                          exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;" moz-do-not-send="true"><img
src="https://cdn-images.mailchimp.com/icons/social-block-v2/dark-facebook-48.png"
                                                          alt="Facebook"
style="display: block;border: 0;height: auto;outline:
                                                          none;text-decoration:
none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;" class="" moz-do-not-send="true"
                                                          width="24"
                                                          height="24"></a>
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                                                          </tr>
                                                          </tbody>
                                                          </table>
                                                          </td>
                                                          </tr>
                                                          </tbody>
                                                          </table>
                                                          </td>
                                                          </tr>
                                                          </tbody>
                                                        </table>
                                                        <!--[if mso]>
                                        </td>
                                        <![endif]-->
                                                        <!--[if mso]>
                                        <td align="center" valign="top">
                                        <![endif]-->
                                                        <table
                                                          style="display:
inline;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace:
0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"
                                                          cellspacing="0"
cellpadding="0" border="0" align="left">
                                                          <tbody>
                                                          <tr>
                                                          <td
                                                          style="padding-right:
10px;padding-bottom: 9px;mso-line-height-rule:
                                                          exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"
                                                          class="mcnFollowContentItemContainer"
                                                          valign="top">
                                                          <table
                                                          class="mcnFollowContentItem"
style="border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace:
0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"
                                                          width="100%"
                                                          cellspacing="0"
cellpadding="0" border="0">
                                                          <tbody>
                                                          <tr>
                                                          <td
                                                          style="padding-top:
5px;padding-right: 10px;padding-bottom: 5px;padding-left:
                                                          9px;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"
                                                          valign="middle"
                                                          align="left">
                                                          <table
                                                          style="border-collapse:
collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace:
                                                          0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;" width="" cellspacing="0"
                                                          cellpadding="0"
                                                          border="0"
                                                          align="left">
                                                          <tbody>
                                                          <tr>
                                                          <td
                                                          class="mcnFollowIconContent"
style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
                                                          100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
                                                          100%;"
                                                          width="24"
                                                          valign="middle"
                                                          align="center">
                                                          <a
href="https://thetricontinental.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6a79324d3b4acfde1e7e546c6&id=248ef534d8&e=d206d0a40d"
target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule:
                                                          exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;" moz-do-not-send="true"><img
src="https://cdn-images.mailchimp.com/icons/social-block-v2/dark-twitter-48.png"
                                                          alt="Twitter"
style="display: block;border: 0;height: auto;outline:
                                                          none;text-decoration:
none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;" class="" moz-do-not-send="true"
                                                          width="24"
                                                          height="24"></a>
                                                          </td>
                                                          </tr>
                                                          </tbody>
                                                          </table>
                                                          </td>
                                                          </tr>
                                                          </tbody>
                                                          </table>
                                                          </td>
                                                          </tr>
                                                          </tbody>
                                                        </table>
                                                        <!--[if mso]>
                                        </td>
                                        <![endif]-->
                                                        <!--[if mso]>
                                        <td align="center" valign="top">
                                        <![endif]-->
                                                        <table
                                                          style="display:
inline;border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace:
0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"
                                                          cellspacing="0"
cellpadding="0" border="0" align="left">
                                                          <tbody>
                                                          <tr>
                                                          <td
                                                          style="padding-right:
0;padding-bottom: 9px;mso-line-height-rule:
                                                          exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"
                                                          class="mcnFollowContentItemContainer"
                                                          valign="top">
                                                          <table
                                                          class="mcnFollowContentItem"
style="border-collapse: collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace:
0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"
                                                          width="100%"
                                                          cellspacing="0"
cellpadding="0" border="0">
                                                          <tbody>
                                                          <tr>
                                                          <td
                                                          style="padding-top:
5px;padding-right: 10px;padding-bottom: 5px;padding-left:
                                                          9px;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"
                                                          valign="middle"
                                                          align="left">
                                                          <table
                                                          style="border-collapse:
collapse;mso-table-lspace: 0pt;mso-table-rspace:
                                                          0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;" width="" cellspacing="0"
                                                          cellpadding="0"
                                                          border="0"
                                                          align="left">
                                                          <tbody>
                                                          <tr>
                                                          <td
                                                          class="mcnFollowIconContent"
style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
                                                          100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
                                                          100%;"
                                                          width="24"
                                                          valign="middle"
                                                          align="center">
                                                          <a
href="https://thetricontinental.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6a79324d3b4acfde1e7e546c6&id=73d848df10&e=d206d0a40d"
target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule:
                                                          exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;" moz-do-not-send="true"><img
src="https://cdn-images.mailchimp.com/icons/social-block-v2/dark-instagram-48.png"
alt="Instagram" style="display: block;border: 0;height: auto;outline:
                                                          none;text-decoration:
none;-ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;" class="" moz-do-not-send="true"
                                                          width="24"
                                                          height="24"></a>
                                                          </td>
                                                          </tr>
                                                          </tbody>
                                                          </table>
                                                          </td>
                                                          </tr>
                                                          </tbody>
                                                          </table>
                                                          </td>
                                                          </tr>
                                                          </tbody>
                                                        </table>
                                                        <!--[if mso]>
                                        </td>
                                        <![endif]-->
                                                        <!--[if mso]>
                                    </tr>
                                    </table>
                                    <![endif]--> </td>
                                                    </tr>
                                                  </tbody>
                                                </table>
                                              </td>
                                            </tr>
                                          </tbody>
                                        </table>
                                      </td>
                                    </tr>
                                  </tbody>
                                </table>
                              </td>
                            </tr>
                          </tbody>
                        </table>
                      </td>
                    </tr>
                  </tbody>
                </table>
                <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]>
                        </td>
                        </tr>
                        </table>
                        <![endif]-->
                <!-- // END TEMPLATE --> </td>
            </tr>
          </tbody>
        </table>
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          0pt;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
          100%;" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0">
          <tbody>
            <tr>
              <td style="padding-top: 20px;padding-bottom:
                20px;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
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                <table id="canspamBar" style="border-collapse:
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                        Arial, sans-serif;font-size: 11px;line-height:
                        150%;padding-right: 20px;padding-bottom:
                        5px;padding-left: 20px;text-align:
                        center;mso-line-height-rule:
                        exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
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                        valign="top" align="center"><br>
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                    </tr>
                  </tbody>
                </table>
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