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 Planet 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

TOP 10 MOST ENDANGERED ANIMALS - ELEPHANTS

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…