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Guillermou's avatar

A great reality. The Creator gave us nature and biodiversity that we must care for to be healthy. If we destroy nature, if we play with fire, if we don't take care of our diet, if we create destructive weapons, if we pollute the environment, we will create synergies between diseases and chronic pathologies. Environmental pollution is a sad reality. There are cities where it is almost impossible to breathe clean air. And because of the smog floating in the air, their inhabitants don't know what a clear sky is. And for them, a starry night is an unattainable utopia. Before the Industrial Revolution, people had to care for the environment around them because that's where they obtained their products. If they didn't care for it, they would face the consequences.

Now, with globalization, we have massive environmental impacts far from where we live. But we are isolated from these impacts, so they are abstract to us.

Foreign trade also creates and increases inequality. The pressure for material goods comes primarily from high- and middle-income countries and is often met by low- and middle-income countries.

For example, Japan, the US, and Europe alone consumed 64% of global fishery imports. High-income countries have their own fisheries, but most of them have collapsed. Fishing now takes place in previously unexploited or underexploited fisheries, most of which belong to low-income countries. About 77% of rivers longer than 1,000 kilometers no longer flow freely from their source to the sea, despite supporting millions of people.

The main cause of ocean change is overfishing, but 66% of the ocean's surface has also been affected by other processes, such as agricultural runoff and plastic pollution. The latest report paints a shocking picture. We are changing nature on a global scale, and the impacts of our actions are distributed unevenly.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aax3100

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2019/december/humans-are-causing-life-on-earth-to-vanish.html

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Cash - use it or lose it! Local, local, local. Diversify, yet coordinated with other Local and Regional efforts creating Basic Needs and Services. When if we can grow our own quality foods it does take effort and a learning curve, yet, quality foods afford the Real Wealth of Health. It makes our dollars go further as we don't waste our money chasing medicines dampening symptoms all the while creating new problems. Our abilities to address basic needs and stay out of the One Size For All and Feeds the Few System. While nearly all obsess about food, there are many and other skills, goods we can produce, fix, reuse especially when they are the things we create to make it that way - instead of the planned obsolescence producing mountains of junk, pollution, sickness and giving the excuse there are too many people, not enough resources, "we" need Depopulation. Despite things the way they currently are, Cash still offers us an off ramp to Independence, Liberty and Freedom. Just Sayn'

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