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“If We Don’t Protect Nature We Can’t Protect Ourselves” –Harrison Ford

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We are facing an emergency resulting from our toxic economic and political system. The way we relate to each other and to nature is destroying Earth’s capacity to sustain life.

Unending economic growth and profits drawn from a planet with limited resources is causing gross inequality, poverty, mass misery, and species extinction.

We are sold an illusion that consumption will bring purpose and happiness into our lives, yet this systemic consumption is threatening our very existence. It is based on unjust and unethical land use and ownership, unsustainable and increasing amounts of debt and enslavement of individuals.

Power and money is concentrated in the hands of the few, while the masses struggle to simply survive. It is causing climate breakdown and biodiversity collapse.

As Greta Thunberg has been saying since the ‘Declaration of Rebellion’ last October 31:

‘We can no longer save the world by playing by the rules. Because the rules have to be changed.
Everything needs to change. And it has to start today.”

So, everyone out there, it is now time for civil disobedience. It is time to rebel.

Edited by Lindford Lowe

There’s a Smart Way to End the Global Water Crisis

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Millions of people around the world could get access to safe water in their homes with the help of small, affordable loans.

That’s where Water.org comes in. We are here to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans. There is both a need and demand for these loans, because when people have access to safe water, they get time back to go to school, earn an income and take care of their family. It changes their world.

For more than 25 years, with your help, we’ve been providing families with hope, health and the opportunity to break the cycle of poverty.