by Ellinorianne
The unprecedented disasters that seem to be building up around us are numerous. Environmental emergencies are easy to ignore because they happen mostly out of sight, so therefore, they can't be happening for a huge number of those who live around us. Deforestation? I see trees. Climate change, there was snow on the ground just this winter, a lot of it. As eloquently as Bill Maher put it, the lack of sunlight each night does not negate the existence of the sun. Plastic islands floating in our oceans, birds dying around the plastic contents in their stomachs, whales digesting tons of plastic, species lost every year on a scale not seen before unless for reasons that were nature or disaster caused, industrialized farming practices killing oceans and the people it was meant to feed, the problems go on forever and yet we cannot thread all these issues together because for some odd reason either we choose not to, or the more obvious reason, we are forced not to.
continued at Daily Kos....
