–<\/span><\/p>\n The signs are loud and clear. From the Earth. From diverse species. From insects. From science. From women. From children. From indigenous communities. From the increase of disease in our daily lives.<\/strong> Life on this planet, our own future, is under severe threat of the sixth mass extinction and climate catastrophe. The extinction of species, disappearing biodiversity and the destruction of the planet\u2019s climate systems are interconnected through fossil fuels and chemical poisons based on rampant acquisitive competition and profit-based agricultural industrialization. It is clear that the sixth mass extinction has now begun, driven by the limitless greed of the 1% and their total disregard of the ecological limits set by the Earth, and the inherent limits for social justice and human rights. We are forgetting that we are one humanity on one planet. There is no planet B. It is here where either we will continue to live, or go extinct as a species, together with the millions of species that that have been driven to extinction by the violence and carelessness of an agriculture based on poisons.<\/p>\n Bees, butterflies, beetles and other insects are disappearing in what has been called an \u201cinsectageddon\u201d. Pesticides and chemical poisons, first used to kill humans in concentration camps have subsequently been used in industrial agriculture for \u201cwar on bugs\u201d. Killing insects, is their purpose. Protecting life on earth is critical.<\/p>\n Scientists have warned that \u201cUnless we change our ways of producing food, insects as a whole will go down the path of extinction in a few decades\u201d<\/p>\n The epidemic of chronic diseases is also the result of the spread of toxics in our food systems.<\/p>\n Unfair \u201cfree trade\u201d agreements are spreading poisons in food and farming worldwide destroying local, ecological food systems, which protect the earth and our future.<\/p>\n Small farmers who care for the Earth and our health through growing real food that nourishes us are going extinct with 200 species that disappear daily with the spread of capital intensive chemical intensive industrial agriculture.<\/p>\n The Inter Governmental Panel on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) has warned in its assessment that \u201cRapid expansion and unsustainable management of croplands and grazing lands is the most extensive global direct driver of land degradation, causing significant loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services \u2013 food security, water purification, the provision of energy and other contributions of nature essential to people.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n