Right now, we are in the middle of the earth’s sixth mass extinction and it’s our own dang fault.
We humans have pumped up the rate of species extinction by a factor of at least 100 and at least one renowned Harvard biologist, E.O. Wilson, predicts that within the next twenty years, we’ll have become so good at increasing the rate of extinction that the factor could jump as high as 10,000!
Plus right now, there is a fight for life going on in Ecuador, in the most biodiverse place on the planet.
As reported by Johann Hari, the oil beneath this lush 4,000 square miles of rainforest holds oil worth about $7 billion. And in the deal of the century, Ecuador’s government has agreed to forgo drilling and keep the rainforest standing if the world pays just $3.5 billion.
What a bargain!
No country has ever made a generous offer like this or even considered proposing an offer where they agree to give up significantly higher profits in order to preserve the rainforest.
Now the question is whether the world will respond.
If Ecuador doesn’t receive at least $100 million by the end of this year, the deal is off and digging and destruction of the rainforest will begin.
Now I’m guessing none of you readers have $3.5 billion tucked away to step up and save these 4,000 acres, but that doesn’t mean you can’t do anything to help.
Just one click a day at The Rain Forest Site will preserve 11.4 square feet of rainforest habitat somewhere in the world without costing you a penny.
And I can’t think of a better group of gals to help save this planet!
After all, as vintage fashionistas we already have a preservation spirit. Just imagine if we took that spirit and used it to save more than clothes!
Certainly the actual rainforest is even more worthy of rescue than today’s VPOD, which, I’m sure you’ll agree, deserved to be intercepted before it ended up in a landfill along with the other two QUADRILLION pounds of clothing we Americans discard each year!
This vintage Ferragamo silk scarf from the late 1980s or early 1990s fittingly features endangered jaguars hiding out in the jungle and their eyes are just pleading for us to help.
It’s a heart-wrenching reminder for an eco-conscious vintage fashionista!
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