The fact of the matter is that today, stuff-selling mega-corporations have a huge influence on our daily lives. And because of the competitive nature of our global economy, these corporations are generally only concerned with one thing - the bottom line. That is, maximising profit, regardless of the social or environmental costs.

Birds are, especially canaries, are super sensitive to hydrogen sulfide and sour gas.

Water is our most precious resource, but we waste it, just as we waste other resources, including oil and gas.

Aboriginal people are key because they have a different sense of where we belong and how we interact with nature.

Ultimately we need to recognize that while humans continue to build urban landscapes, we share these spaces with others species.

There are some things in the world we can't change- gravity, entropy, the speed of light, and our biological nature that requires clean air, clean water, clean soil, clean energy and biodiversity for our health and well-being. Protecting the biosphere should be our highest priority or else we sicken and die. Other things, like capitalism, free enterprise, the economy, currency, the market, are not forces of nature, we invented them. They are not immutable and we can change them. It makes no sense to elevate economics above the biosphere.

I can't imagine anything more important than air, water, soil, energy and biodiversity. These are the things that keep us alive.