Indoor Air Pollution: Advocate for universal access to clean, affordable fuels and technologies for cooking, heating, and lighting. Be aware that your house contains two to three times more pollution than the outdoors.

Outdoor Air Pollution: Particulate Matter (PM) comes in many forms, dust, debris, chemicals (VOCs), and from combustion of fossil fuels.

Impact on Health: Long term exposure to air pollution may cause, asthma, reduced lung function, headaches, cardiovascular disease, liver damage, and premature death.

Deforestation - the clearing of trees for logging or to make room for livestock & development - releases carbon dioxide into the air and is a contributing factor to continued Global Warming.

Overdevelopment of wooded areas creates biodiversity loss and increases the impact of natural disasters, causing harm to the environment and the well being of future generations.

Climate change is forecasted to make the world hotter and drier (i.e. drought), which can lead to a higher likelihood of wildfires since dry conditions/vegetation and fuel (e.g., lightning, human error, etc.) can create the perfect combination for a wildfire.

The number of drought conditions throughout the United States continues to increase in amount and intensity. Most recent data from 2018 features a total of 107 million drought conditions nationally.

Fossil fuels have long lasting effects that impact other areas of the climate crisis including water and air pollution, as well as general global warming to name a few. When an area of terrain is processed, it leaves wildlife habitats uninhabitable thus leaving the wildlife of the area to suffer. As fossil fuels are burned, the emissions contaminate the air of the surrounding area, exposing wildlife and humans to the toxic air pollution that is created.

In the United States alone, according to Environmentamerica.org, costs consumers and businesses anywhere between $700 billion-$1 trillion dollars on coal and other gas emissions. And these numbers are not even including the cost that the fossil fuel pollution has on these businesses and consumers, as well as the wildlife.

The global rise in meat and dairy consumption is projected to grow by 76 and 65 percent respectively by 2050. If not dramatically reduced, this would result in eating up the entire climate emissions budget set for 2050 in the Paris Agreement.

Livestock now generate more Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions than all the world’s transport combined. Nearly half is in the form of methane, a gas 30 times more effective than carbon dioxide at trapping heat in our atmosphere but quick to disappear once we stop producing it.

If we did everything currently prescribed to stop climate change (stop extracting and burning fossil fuels, convert to renewable energies, etc.) except cut back on industrial meat, the planet would still be in danger of the ‘cataclysmic’ warming scenario of 4ºC by the end of the century.

Because of the large amounts of single-use plastics used and created in the past decade, landfills and floating islands of trash are growing dramatically and becoming a bigger problem to the environment and human health.

These landfills and trash islands directly affect the atmosphere and the communities who live near them. Studies are finding that plastic is being found in animals' bodies and fat tissue.