This is home, beautiful blue globe in a vast universe. We travel in outer space and cyber space, but our space is here on earth. You can have a mountain of degrees, a mountain of money or a mountain of power, but in a moment of silence on top of your mountain what do you hear? Hear yourself breathe. If your mountain is high enough breathing is arduous, air is thin, less oxygen per lung full. There is no escaping or denying the fact that you need air. When the Amazon goes the rest of us are right behind. At the current rate of destruction we have less than 20 years.
I am not worried or fearful of the future, I am simply stating a fact that if we want to continue to breathe, we need to do something now. Twenty years ago when I would travel the Amazon there were no fires no problem, but now thousands of fires are burning and they are a threat to all of us.
The largest fire in history 13 million acres dumped soot along the Gulf coast and filled the sky with smoke as far north as Canada.
Where are we going to pipe oxygen in from? Will science come up with synthetic oxygen? We have a fire to put out do we have any volunteers?
They are killing hundreds of helpless animals per minute. Stealing you and your babies oxygen so you can't breathe. Destroying the rainforest at a raging rate of an acre per second. What are we doing? We are no longer ignorant or helpless in this situation. We can buy the rainforest before it burns protect it with forest rangers and stop this senseless destruction. With 200 trees per acre, only a dime per tree, a 150 foot tree for ten cents, also the birds that nest in its branches, orchids and bromiliads that grow in its forks, hummingbirds and butterflies that feed from its flowers, monkeys that swing from its vines, all saved with a dime.
For such a small price, the only person with an excuse not to save an acre is the one not breathing.
You are breathing, you comprehend, now respond.