THE PROBLEM
We are experiencing the 6th mass extinction since the Earth was formed 4.5 billion years ago.
A sharp global decline in biodiversity in recent decades, caused largely by overuse of natural resources, such as massive deforestation for both intensive agriculture and intensive livestock farming, and the depletion of fish stocks in the oceans to feed markets around the world. In both cases, the human being is solely responsible.
We are destroying the Amazon, the primary forests of Southeast Asia, the oceans, the rivers, the polar ice caps, etc.
Throughout the world, tropical forests and their great rivers, their tributaries, swamps and mangroves, are essential for fish food globally and decisive in ocean cycles, not to mention all the important environmental services that provide us.
The massive deforestation of these forests undermines these sensitive balances. At the same time, the surpluses released by intensive agriculture and livestock farming change the soil and increasingly poison the rivers, which in turn, together with the atmospheric pollution they absorb, destroy the seas. And without healthy oceans, there is no oxygen on Earth.
At the same time, the warming of the atmosphere caused by human action is causing the ice at the poles to disappear. In turn, this massive melting dramatically increases methane emissions, a greenhouse gas that accelerates global warming and is also released in overwhelming quantities by intensive livestock farming, agriculture and the large carbon footprint of a consumerist society.
We thus give life to a descending vicious circle, which feeds back on itself and could lead us to collective extinction.