HEALTH
We all accept that we are harming this planet to
our own detriment and we must stop our wasteful
and polluting ways. Whether you are an adversary
or proponent of the highly politicized phrase “cli-
mate change,” the solutions we need to implement
for our long term viability are obvious, necessary
and beneficial for everyone that desires a regener-
ative world.
There are four primary components that can unite
everyone and bypass further arguments. Protect-
ing and improving our air, water and soil is simply
essential — not doing so is suicide. I recommend
you think about four indisputable actions that can
help avoid arguments and preserve regenerative
systems. These practices are essential and univer-
sally agreeable; getting caught up in any debate is
unnecessary.
1. Support Regenerative Agriculture
2.Protect our lakes, rivers, oceans and aquifers
3.Reduce Waste
for an hour-and-a-half and watch this film. A fact
that cannot be denied is that our world has be-
come increasingly and devastatingly toxic, and
these toxins are damaging our ecosystem, thereby
placing the survival of mankind at risk.
We are eroding soils, polluting water, draining aqui-
fers and contaminating our air. Any one of these
issues progressing will have devastating conse-
quences, and at our current pace we have roughly
50 years before time will run out. Some instances
of pollution, such as the plastic now choking our
oceans, or agricultural runoff contaminating our
fresh water supplies, highlight serious damage
that we can and must stop.
The decimation of forests, be it for the purpose of
tar sands operations or paper milling or building
cities and suburbs, also has an impact on the Earth.
Whether man-made CO2 is instrumental in climate
change or not, what’s clear is that our Earth is in
peril, and it’s up to all of us, corporations included,
to reassess our impact on the world at large.
4.Improve Energy Use and Sourcing
1. Before the Flood 2. We Must Reassess Our Dependence on a
Fossil Fuel Economy
Whether you believe man-made climate change is
real or not, I urge you to lay your judgments aside To sustain our dependence on fossil fuels, we’ve
had to implement increasingly risky and environ-
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