⬛️ Tiny plastic particles in the food we eat and in the water we drink, our bodies literally filling up with plastic.
⬛️ Fossil fuel extraction at record levels, greenhouse gas emissions rising faster and faster.
⬛️ Forests still being mowed down, jungles razed, species lost that haven't even been discovered.
⬛️ Our oceans heating up and acidifying, killing coral reefs and threatening the overall food chain.
⬛️ More and bigger storms, more and longer droughts, more climate chaos and much more suffering.
But it didn’t have to be this way. It could have been different.
Our governments knew and industry leaders knew decades ago about all the damage they were doing, about the risks they were presenting to public health, to our environment, and to the climate.
They knew, and they did it anyway. Because capitalism could not be denied. Because economic growth leading to concentration of wealth in the hands of a few greedy plutocrats was more important to them than anything else.
