3 Actions You Can Make From Your Couch To Help Stop The Amazon Fires
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3 Actions You Can Make From Your Couch To Help Stop The Amazon Fires

Climate change will be irreversible in seventeen months. The time to help is now—and it won't even take 5 minutes.

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3 Actions You Can Make From Your Couch To Help Stop The Amazon Fires

If you didn't already know, the Amazon has been on fire for the past month. These fires are intentional; a greedy effort from the Brazilian government to clear land for economic gain.

A quarter of the rainforest has already been destroyed—a chunk the size of Texas.

I'm really mad about this, so I have already done all three actions below. It literally took five minutes.

1. Sign this petition with over four million signatures.

https://www.change.org/p/stop-the-burning-of-the-amazon-rainforest?signed=true

A lawyer who lives in the heart of the Amazon has created a petition to investigate the causes of the fire. If accomplished, this will lead to direct legal action agains the corrupt parts of Brazil's government.

Here's the link: https://www.change.org/p/stop-the-burning-of-the-amazon-rainforest

2. Donate the cost of a Starbucks to RAN.

https://act.ran.org/page/12794/donate/2

Rainforest Action Network (RAN) has been around since 1988, dedicated to protecting the rainforests. Any donations made this month and for a period onward are being reserved exclusively for the trauma situation in the Amazon. Donations will help protect land at risk and help indigenous peoples and species recover.

I donated $10, the cost of two days of my Starbucks order.

Here's the rush donation link: https://act.ran.org/page/12794/donate/1?ea.tracking.id=ad_gad&en_og_source=ad_gad&gclid=CjwKCAjwkqPrBRA3EiwAKdtwk9N6UAGNAp8yLSZt8c1WprsyIQiDkvU4TnJR7VBctiru3jLMfhtg5RoC9-oQAvD_BwE

3. Download Ecosia.

https://www.ecosia.org/

Ecosia is a search engine you can add to your Chrome browser. They have legally committed to planting a tree for every 45 searches that are made. The average student makes 10 google searches per day, so in less than a week you will have planted a tree in an at-risk area like the Amazon.

Here's the download link: https://info.ecosia.org/what

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