chp1: cut semi-irrelevant figueres quote

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@@ -38,18 +38,11 @@ root cause of green evils is the aggregated consumption choices of all the
 world's individuals.
 
 So, when Christiana Figueres, a leading architect of the 2015 Paris Agreement,
-wrote to the general public on the problems and solutions to climate change,
-she overwhelmingly focused on individual psychology. In her telling, the
-problem is that 'we' (that is, the universal human individual) are consuming too
-much. The solution is to change the psychology behind over-consumption.
-
-> Much of what we buy is intended to enhance our sense of identity. Particular
-> brands of clothes, soap, cookies, televisions, and cars and designed with a
-> _tribe_ in mind, their attributes carefully cultivated by the consumer goods
-> companies that sell the products. \[…\] In the UK, for example, the average
-> person consumes more than 65 pounds of clothes every year, equivalent to about
-> five loads of laundry. These purchases are driven mainly by the fact that
-> fashion trends change every season. [@future-we-choose, p. 118]
+co-wrote _The Future We Choose_, addressing the general public on the problems
+and solutions to climate change, she overwhelmingly focused on individual
+psychology. In her telling, the problem is that 'we' (that is, the universal
+human individual) are consuming too much. The solution is to change the
+psychology behind over-consumption [@future-we-choose, p. 118].
 
 Figueres is not alone in emphasising individual psychology as a root cause of
 climate change. For example, writing about climate change with TV co-host Chris