1/ Humans are the most dangerous animal on Earth. We represent just 0.01% of all living things and yet in our short time here we have already had a catastrophic effect on the natural world: we have destroyed 83% of all wild mammals and 50% of all plants.
2/ Of all mammals on Earth, 60% are now livestock, 36% are humans, and just 4% are wild animals. Farmed poultry makes up 70% of all birds on the planet, with just 30% being wild. How sad is it that most of the birds on Earth are not able to fly. That’s what wings are for.
3/ We are adding 1 billion people to our planet every 12 years and for every billion people comes 10 billion farm animals at our current rate of meat consumption. This is not sustainable.
4/ Charles Darwin once said “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change.”
5/ Every single environmental crisis we face: climate change, ocean acidification, habitat loss, pollution, species extinction - all of them are accelerated by our rapidly growing population. We cannot address the others without addressing the core issue of the problem.
6// Humans must show evolutionary adaptation by reducing population growth and meat consumption, as welll as replacing fossil fuel economy with a renewable energy economy. Otherwise we are up shit creek without a paddle.
Instead of “Otherwise we are up shit creek without a paddle” at the UN I said “The future of life on Earth depends upon us taking action” but otherwise, pretty much the same :)
