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:) and Austria where it is the far-right against everyone else including the Greens

Austria divided as far-right and Green-backed candidates face election rerun

Presidential candidates Alexander van der Bellen and Norbert Hofer reflect a country where one side is increasingly struggling to understand the other


Campaign posters for Norbert Hofer and Alexander Van der Bellen in Vienna.
Photograph: Leonhard Foeger/Reuters

Philip Oltermann in Kaunertal and Spiss

Friday 2 December 2016 18.00 AEDT

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/02/tyrolian-villages-divided-as-austria-goes-back-to-the-polls

.. just heard a win for Norbert Hofer would mean the first Austrian far-right president since 1945 .. the
commentator said the movement in Europe felt a rerun of the 1930's .. this one from inside the above ..

Year of electoral tests may end European Union as we know it

Populist, nation-first parties to contest key elections buoyed by Brexit vote and Donald Trump victory


National Front leader Marine le Pen has called for a referendum on EU membership
to be held in France. Photograph: Matthieu Alexandre/AFP/Getty Images

Jon Henley European affairs correspondent

Saturday 3 December 2016 00.58 AEDT
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/02/year-of-electoral-tests-may-end-european-union-as-we-know-it

.. all you say is spot on, will just add, as well as people generally feeling let down by not getting a fair share of past growth and prosperity the
war in Syria as a driver of migration is a huge factor in the dissent, too .. the arrival of strangers intensifies the other feelings insecurity ..

See also:

Europe's Lapse of Reason
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=123517238

Britain to Leave Europe for a Lie
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=123588636

Seduced and Betrayed by Donald Trump
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=126964522

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Living Planet Report 2014 Facts
http://www.footprintnetwork.org/en/index.php/GFN/page/living_planet_report_2014_facts/

is a good fact sheet with good diagrams .. can't find one like
it for 2016, just this one .. wow .. the photo at the bottom

WWF's Living Planet Report 2016

BOTTOM PHOTO .. sitting on top of ..
Building a future in which people live in harmony with nature.
http://wwf.panda.org/about_our_earth/all_publications/lpr_2016/

shows just how close we should feel to them, because we are so much like them.

Your "footprint" comment had me off looking for one

not this one .. 2008 - World moving towards 'vibrant sustainable economy'
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=25902570

nor this one .. 2010 - A World Made by War
How Old Will You Be When the American War State Goes Down?
By Tom Engelhardt
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=55709093

Ah, this is the one

ECO-FOOTPRINTS AND GLOBAL BIO-CAPACITY
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=54672885

your animal comments and "footprint" had me thinking of .. we can only do our bit .. :)

See also:

World on track to lose two-thirds of wild animals by 2020, major report warns
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=126348760

Orangutans Are Now One Step Closer To Extinction
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=123810004