The protection of the environment is of superior importance over other problems of injustice and exploitation (race, wealth, gender,...) as a healthy environment is the basis of survival of all of humanity. Our current focus on fixing other issues first is causing us to steer more and more towards a global catastrophe from which humanity and many other species on this planet will not or will only slowly and barely recover. This is excellently visualized in the below analogy of humanity building a brick wall and taking out more and more bricks from the foundation with the obvious result unless we want to defy gravity...
Source: Dr. Michael T. Barbour, Center for Ecological Sciences, Tetra Tech, Inc.
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