1.Over the top use of chemicals and toxins in everything from households to industry.
2. "Development:" What a crappy word for building too much stuff. Humans have some crazy notion that they must groom, sterilize and otherwise change everything. Omnipresent advertising conditions humans to think they will be lesser beings if they do not modify and sterilize everything. Of course, money changes hands in each step: when things are cut down and destroyed, when something new is built, when everything around is sterilized, when exotic stuff is brought in to replace the good stuff that was destroyed, and then when all is put on a diet of chemical poisons. The last step happens because people -- who evolved living in dirt and the necessary minerals it supplies -- have been brainwashed into thinking a sterile, poisoned and medicated environment is better. KaChing.
3. Similar to development is the privatization of public land. That is where corrupt politicians sell public land at cheap prices to their cronies, and then the land get "developed." This supports money, not life.
4. In the same vein are "exemptions" to growth management plans. They are usually rubberstamped and end up destroying habitat suitable for wildlife.
5. Industry, making too much stuff.
6. Mining, to get materials to make too much stuff, often leaving environmental devastation in its wake.
7. Industrial agriculture, which destroys the soil and poisons everything it touches including the people who eat the crap they pass off as food. No, industrial agriculture is not necessary to feed the world, that's a Monsanto myth. tinyurl.com/hpc698q Mom and pop farms would do just as well, but more money would stay in communities and not as much would change hands on the way to offshore banks.
8. Logging: only slightly different from mining.
9. Disposal of "too much stuff." 99% of the stuff we buy is disposed of within six months.
10. Medications discarded or flushed down the toilet (but still active), many of which were needed to reduce the effects of the poisoned industrial agriculture products we had eaten.
11. Climate change.
12. And, let's not forget the big one: attitude, the attitude that humans are superior to everything and it is in our nature and morally OK to kill anything that offends us, gets in our way, or that we imagine may be even remotely threatening. This attitude tells us that we can completely control our environment. Forget the fact that the best and the brightest failed miserably when they tried to create a closed, self-sustaining system in the Biosphere experiments. tinyurl.com/k8ayw29)
Humans historically kill most everything around; replace it with touchy exotics; and, then kill whatever moves in to fill in the gaps. Biosphere Earth is now failing.
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