#down with plastic

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Does anyone have any shampoo bar recommendations? I have pretty naturally oily hair.

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We talk about climate change, the earth, GMOs, the bees, the animals…we need add our dying ocean to the conversation. This is just one great documentary you should watch.

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Why don't we care more?

Today, without even seeking it out I saw the following news stories:

1. A sperm whale washed up on the shore of Indonesia with 64 lbs of plastic trash in it's stomach

2. Seas are rising too fast to save much of the Mississippi River delta

3. The oceans currents haven't been this sluggish in 1,000 years.

4. Global warming is causing an Alaskan glacier to melt at it's fastest pace in 400 years.

The decimation of our planet is being thrown in our face and yet

We still use plastic shopping bags, water bottles, straws, utensils, k cups, etc. Instead of reusables.

We still gorge ourselves on livestock that are destroying rainforrests, polluting our water, and producing more methane than our earth can handle.

We are still driving when we could walk or ride a bike.

We are still resisting clean, renewable energy.

We just consume and waste and sleep.

It's time to WAKE UP and really take a look at the amount of human suffering that is directly caused by our carelessness.

These are not difficult changes to make.

We need to stop making this about politics and labels and greed and start practicing compassion. Making small changes to help protect our planet and fellow humans is not extremism, it's compassion.

[da-li0n]

"Their only incentive in promoting recycling is to be able to justify to the consumer that this product is good " -Martin Bourque on big plastic businesses