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Our Environment’s Reality ?
Perspective - Climate Change
Evidence & Facts
HISTORICAL CONTEXT - CLIMATE CHANGE
Repetitive orchestrated confusion raised by few dissident scientists funded by corporations…
BENCHMARKING & BEST PRACTICES
The Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI ) compares where countries actually are…
CCPI - RANKINGS
Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI) compares 57 countries and EU…
ENGAGE TO CHANGE “OUR STATUS QUO”
Demand Fossil Fuel Divestment and Funding ...
CLIMATE POLICY - RANKINGS
U.S. ranks last in Climate Policy…
Climate Change
EVIDENCE OF CLIMATE CHANGE - TEMP & CO2
NASA Vital Signs of the Plant states...
EACH COUNTRY'S SHARE OF CO2
Developed countries and major emerging ...
EVIDENCE OF CLIMATE CHANGE - ICE SHEETS & SEA LEVEL
Global sea level rose about 8 inches (20 centimeters) in the last century...
OIL & GAS LOBBYISTS IMPEDING SCIENCE
Five Largest companies have invested over $1Billion following the Paris Agreement...
CLIMATE CHANGE - AN EXISTENTIAL CRISIS
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) unequivocally concludes that human activities are affecting global warming …
Perspective - Pesticides
HISTORICAL CONTEXT - PESTICIDES
"We have become unwitting guinea pigs in our own vast experiment with synthetic chemicals...”
BENCHMARKING & BEST PRACTICES
Pesticide Action Network (PAN) has been …
BANNED PESTICIDES - U.S. VS EU
In U.S. use of pesticides continues unabated…
EU’s EXPORTED BANNED PESTICIDES ACTIVE INGREDIENTS
EU allows agrochemical to sell substances deemed too dangerous for European…
EU’s EXPORTED BANNED PESTICIDES TO OTHER COUNTRIES
Syngenta’s best-selling pesticide, paraquat, is so dangerous that just one sip can be lethal…
Pesticides in U.S
U.S.TOTAL PESTICIDE USE
In U.S. each year, an estimated 1.1 billion pounds of pesticides are applied to U.S. farms, forests, lawns and golf courses...
U.S. CITIZENS - PESTICIDES IN BODY
CDC tested for 212 chemicals, including 44 pesticides and found most of them in over 85 percent of Americans tested...
U.S. LAWN PESTICIDE USE
Of 30 commonly used lawn pesticides 13 are linked with birth defects...
INSECTICIDES, HERBICIDES & FUMIGANTS
Main Groups of Insecticides, Pesticides and Fumigants...
PESTICIDES & ENDOCRINE DISRUPTION
All chemically-mediated message systems, are now known to be vulnerable to endocrine disruptors...
Perspective - Extinction
HISTORICAL CONTEXT - SPECIES EXTINCTION
Numbers of extinctions are likely to snowball in the coming decades as ecosystems unravel..
BENCHMARKING & BEST PRACTICES
The IUCN Green List of Protected and Conserved Areas is the 1st global standard…
IUCN ENDANGERED SPECIES RED LIST
Currently there are more than 96,951 species on The International Union for Conservation of...
TOP 10 U.S. ENDANGERED SPECIES - ATLANTIC BLUEFIN TUNA
Atlantic bluefin tuna has declined by more than 80 percent since 1970 due to over harvesting...
TOP 10 U.S. ENDANGERED SPECIES - POLAR BEARS
Two-thirds of the world's polar bears could be extinct by 2050...
Species Extinctions
ELEPHANTS - TOP 10 MOST ENDANGERED ANIMALS
Elephants will be extinct in the wild in less than 10 years...
TOP 10 MOST ENDANGERED ANIMALS - ORANGUTANS
Bornean and Sumatran Orangutans have experienced sharp population declines...
TOP 10 MOST ENDANGERED ANIMALS - JAVAN RHINOCEROS
Javan rhinos are currently critically endangered making it one of the most threatened large...
TOP 10 MOST ENDANGERED ANIMALS - LEATHERBACK SEA TURTLES
Extensive egg collection and bycatch in fishing gear are the primary causes of these declines...
BIODIVERSITY IN ECOSYSTEMS
“Only if we understand, can we care. Only if we care, we will help. Only if we help, we shall be saved…”- Jane Goodall, “Jane Goodall: 40 Years at Gombe…
