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1. Only 4% of all mammals on Earth are actually wildlife, 62% is livestock and 34% 

2. We have lost 70% of all species and wildlife since 1970, including 70% of our pollinators which we need for ⅓ of our food. Just last year the US  lost half of our total honey bee populations. 

3. The Earth is 4.5 billion years old. Humans have been around for 300 thousand years, which is only 0.007% of the entire history of the planet.

4. Many species of animals had been around for millions of years and it only took humans a few decades to wipe them out completely.

5. We are destroying 10 football fields worth of forests every minute, in some years this rate was up to 50 football fields worth of trees per minute.

6. 12-200 wildlife species, depending on source, go extinct EVERY SINGLE DAY.

7. Humans have manipulated 97% of land mass, leaving only 3% untouched/uncultivated.

8. 6 out of 7 global fisheries are currently overfished and unsustainable. We are depleting these populations far faster than they can replenish themselves due to human overpopulation and overeating in “rich” countries. No more buffets should be allowed or unlimited specials.

9. Industrial farms add chemicals to water ecosystems, as well as the condensed fish waste, and introduces antibiotic resistant parasites and bacteria to wild fish populations. This pattern can be compared to what European colonists did to Native Americans, introducing diseases that wiped out 90% of their total population.

10. On top of this, 80% of over 8 Billion people’s untreated sewage is sent to the ocean, to pollute the already suffering marine ecosystems.

11. The Ocean is hotter than it has ever been before and so 50% of our coral reefs have been lost in 30 years. Bleaching does not mean dead. They can be brought back with lower temperatures, however 90%+ are currently experiencing bleaching. Our coral reefs have lost their color, vibrancy and ability to support marine life.

12. Every second, an entire truckload of garbage ends up in the ocean.

13. We eat an entire credit card’s worth of plastic every week. Plastic is in our food and water, such as fish, meat, dairy, packaged foods and in most of our fruits and veggies. Plastic has been found in newborns, our blood, eggs, sperm, our brains, and our organs.  It has made it's way into every millimeter of every ecosystem in the hottest and coldest parts of the world, the largest glaciers, and the deepest oceans. Plastic is made from petroleum which is oil and the oil is the Earth's blood and we are draining her of her very essence.

14. Since we have interrupted ecosystems and nature with roads, interstates, cities, and CAFOs, we now have no uninterrupted nature. We must rebalance to as close to 50/50 as possible for nature to thrive again. 

15. Conscious circular consumerism. CCC SEE US. 

16. The Earth can only handle a limit of 5 billion people without dramatically altering geological and biological systems, which explains why the majority of our food is poisonous, our soils are depleted and is now 40% less nutritious. Efficiency and productivity is a mindset which we must lose, including the way we view the human population. A sustainable human population is needed now, and to get back to 5 billion people, that means many family lines will need to end in our lifetimes and orphan children can be adopted and animals in shelters can be adopted, and plants, wildlife and ecosystems can be protected, rehabilitated and restabilized in numbers and space coverage.

17. I plan to get a hysterectomy in my 20s because I don’t want to be part of the problem. I would rather adopt from the pool of 140 million orphans worldwide. Sex can be enjoyed for both parties without the constant worry of pregnancy which automatically disempowers females.

18. I propose a plan of Ecoicism as a new ECOnomy where we literally put the “Eco” back in the economy. We place nature hand and hand with humans because any creature which destroys its origin destroys itself, so we have been experiencing the negative effects since the industrial “revolution.” 

19. I’m talking, shopping from local farms and producers. Buying ONLY reusable hygienic products and food packaging. Reusable pads or menstrual cup, reusable bathroom cloths or bamboo toilet paper, silicone baggies, metal water bottles, even going to restaurants with a reusable container rather than using the plastic or styrofoam one. Going to picnics or out eating with a reusable straw and silverware. Buying recycled art or decor. Composting ALL food to return the energy back to Earth. Recycling everything you can’t reuse to maintain the demand for recycling so investors will continue to take notice. 

20. Right now most of us only have money to trade, but once we become more independent we will have actual resources to trade with our neighbors. I am not saying to remove the monetary currency completely. You cannot have capitalism without communism or communism without capitalism. But right now, communism has been neglected. Ecoicism weighs in both economies while rehabilitating and serving back nature to it’s former health.

21. If we don’t correct environmental injustice THIS decade, there will continue to be droughts, floods, food shortages, rising prices, famine, starvation, civil and social unrest, virtually all wildlife will be extinct and very soon we could initiate a global war over resources and billions of people will lose their lives. If you have children or you want future generations to have a habitable planet, these are the changes we must make immediately.

22. I don’t care how bleak it looks now, we must try, and we have to give it our all. The first step to change is AWARENESS. The media does not share this information to continue functioning under capitalist rule so they can keep filling their pockets, and we know the media is bought out by big business and government (gov is it’s own business, people forget). We can’t trust these entities anymore. We the people have been programmed and censored for too long. We are making a stand THIS decade. It begins with me. It begins with you. I call you to action to get informed, get involved, and get moving!

23. As an aspiring philanthrepreneur, it is my duty to return any good fortune back into communities to empower them to be fully autonomous, and unreliant on the system once again. 

24. There is no greater issue needing resolved on the planet other than restoring the Earth systems and life forms. 

25. Share if you want to help raise awareness.