Reason #32: The planet's leading cause of human death and illness is diarrhea and 88 percent of these deaths are directly linked to a lack of access to safe water.
Reason #33: Ninety percent of the large fish in the ocean are already gone.
Reason #34: Eighty percent of the world's forests are already gone.
Reason #35: Every single day, 200,000 acres of rain forest are destroyed.
Reason #36: Every single day, 150-200 plant and animal species go extinct.
Reason #37: Every single day, 13 million tons of toxic chemicals are released across the globe.
Reason #38: Every single day, 25,000 to 30,000 children under the age of five die from preventable causes.
How much longer will you wait? How much time do you think we have?
Reason #39: Here in the land of the free, 1 in 31 adults is in prison, on parole, or on probation.
Reason #40: Here in the home of the brave, every 46 seconds, a woman is raped.
Our Way of Life
"The earth is not dying. It is being killed, and the people killing it have names and addresses."
- Utah Phillips
All that I just listed is but a minuscule sampling of what business-as-usual has wrought. It's standard operating procedure within our beloved "way of life" and, as Barack Obama announced to world at his first inauguration: "We will never apologize for our way of life nor will we waver in its defense."
Reason #41: "Our way of life" has brought us to the brink of social, economic, and environmental collapse.
Each of us plays a role in the endemic carnage and it's long overdue we own up to our culpability. However, there's an elite group of international criminals -- now identified as the 1% -- most responsible for the perpetual omnicide. These insatiable sociopaths will never change their behavior voluntarily, which of course means: It's up to us.
Far more than a symptom named George Zimmerman faced judgment last week. Our entire belief system was on trial and each of us remains on trial.
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