No matter, AWG... You seem to have either misquoted and/or misunderstood what I said about the upper 5%... What I siad is thast the planet cannot sustain the consumption levels of the upper 5%...

When I grew up in Norhtern Virgina just about everyone lived in a moderate house... Senators, Congressmen, Generals, Admirals, diplomats, etc... No one *need*ed (or thought they *need*ed...) a 7000 sq. ft. house...

Now you'd be hard pressed to find a majoe city in the US that doesn't have at least one McMansion ghetto with 7000 sq, ft. houses everywhere... This is not only an obsene display of wealth but it is also wastefull of "resources"...

Ending poverty shouldn't be just about redistristribution of reources a discussion about conservation and sharing of what the planet has to offer us collectively...

Bobert