The Data Is In:
We Have Less Than 20 Years To Fix Our Global Problems Or The World As We Know It Will Come To An End
If you listen to the pundits and prognosticators the world is poised on the edge of a knife …
Scientists have concluded that Climate Change
is the biggest threat to our survival.
The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change representing the work of nearly 100 scientists. just released their revised timeline for the earth to reach the critical tipping point in climate change: 10 years. “It’s like a deafening, piercing smoke alarm going off in the kitchen. We have to put out the fire,” said Erik Solheim, executive director of the U.N. Environment Program. Even now, people are losing their homes,businesses, and dying in record numbers. 14 of the hottest annual temperatures ever recorded have occurred during the last 16 years. Along the U.S. coastline, flooding is now 300% to 900% more frequent than it was 50 years ago.The actions of humans have caused extinctions of plants and animals for hundreds of years. Now, global warming is taking place 10 times faster than any time in the past 65 million years. Plants and animals face mass extermination as they fail to adjust.
Politicians have concluded that Terrorism
is the biggest threat to our survival.
In 2015, a total of 11,774 terrorist attacks occurred worldwide killing 28,300 and injuring more than 35,300 people. The toll of terrorism around the globe has jumped 800% in the past five years.
Generals have concluded that Nuclear War
is the biggest threat to our survival.
Over 500,000,000 people have died as a direct result of war violence.In the event of a nuclear war, 90% of the surviving world's population would die from starvation as the world’s food crops perish due to climate change.
Doctors have concluded that Pandemics
are the biggest threat to our survival.
Laurie Garrett, Pulitzer Prize-winning science journalist and author of several books on disease and public health, stated"I'm increasingly very worried about broad spectrum drug resistant plasmids emerging in a huge range of bacterial populations and the high probability that we'll lose the efficacy of much of our antibiotic armamentarium."Bacteria are adapting and becoming resistant to our existing antibiotics. If this continues, a simple scratch could become deadly.When the global population was 450 million in the 1340's, estimates are as many as 200 million people perished from the Bubonic Plague. During the 1918 flu pandemic, 100 million people were estimated to be killed. Juveniles, elderly and young adults were forced to spend their last days in overcrowded medical camps and hospitals where their deaths were prolonged and painful. The financial toll from a severe flu pandemic could hit $4 trillion.
Economists have concluded that Overpopulation
is the biggest threat to our survival.
Overpopulation is a crisis that cannot be averted. Between 1999 and 2011, global population increased by a billion people. Most of this population increase took place in developing nations where resources are already limited. Meanwhile, three species are going extinct every hour. 30,000 species per year.
Environmentalists have concluded that Pollution
is the biggest threat to our survival.
“Sooner or later, we will have to recognize that the Earth has rights, too, to live without pollution. What mankind must know is that human beings cannot live without Mother Earth, but the planet can live without humans,”said environmental activist and President of Bolivia, Evo Morales. More than 3 million kids under the age of 5 years die every year due to environmental factors like pollution. Pollution affects more than 100 million worldwide. More than 1 billion people worldwide don’t have access to safe drinking water. Oceans are becoming more acidic due to greenhouse emissions from fossil fuel which in turn is harming ocean life and global weather. Pollution kills more than 1 million seabirds and 100 million mammals every year.
All these doomsday scenarios are man-made problems that have escalated over the last 100 years. Estimates are that by the year 2035, human civilization will have reached tipping points where efforts to correct problems will no longer make a difference.
The problems of the world are not going to be solved by governments, corporations or religious leaders. The Karma Constitution seeks to unite people from all around the world to act for a common cause with one long-term goal: The survival of the planet.
The Karma Constitution forms the foundation of Planned Acts Of Kindness, a global social responsibility program where each day people around the world wake up and on their cell phones, computers and devices, there’s a new planned act of kindness they can do with their family, friends, co-workers and in their community.
The Karma Constitution and Planned Acts of Kindness are the creation of Lyle Benjamin, Executive Director of 16 Things Kids Can Do, a non-profit educational organization that works for the betterment of kids, people, and the planet through a series of books, workshops, programs and activities all designed to help people lead happier, healthier and more successful lives.
To that end, Benjamin created The Karma Club where people can receive their daily Planned Acts of Kindness, invite others to join the cause, and volunteer to help out on social responsibility programs regardless of where they are in the world. Adhering to the principles of Karma, The Karma Club’s mantra is, “The more you do, the greater your rewards.”
According to Benjamin, “If we are to survive a species and have any chance at quality of life, we need to have tens of millions of people around the world working together on planned acts of kindness with the ability to mobilize instantly to effect corporate, political and grassroots change on common causes like pollution, environmental issues, energy, health, politics,etc.
Benjamin has enlisted numerous organizations, companies, authors, speakers and celebrities to help spread the message. With the goal of taking Planned Acts of Kindness to the United Nations in 2019, he is extending an open invitation to people from around the world, “If you’re unhappy with the direction your community, your country or the world is headed, become part of the solution. Join the Karma Club at PlannedActs.org and working together we can make the world a better place, one PAK at a time.”
In order to get people motivated and engaged over the long-term, Benjamin created The Karma Club, where people can level up each month based achieving milestones in different PAK (Planned Acts of Kindness) tasks. When members level up, they automatically become eligible for that level’s rewards given away each day for a month, beginning on the first of each month.
If you’re unhappy with the direction your community, your country or the world is heading, you need to become part of the solution: Take the first step now by becoming a member and help spread the message on your social network for people to check out PlannedActs.Org as it works to make the world a better place to live … one PAK at a time.
Take the initiative, become an activist, and “Viva la Revolucion!” Like the PAK T-shirt says, “If you’re not part of the solution, then get the Hell off my planet!” #ItsMyPlanet
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Together we can help make the world a better place by each doing our part. If even half of the people reading this website right now start to make an effort to be kinder to each other it would go a long way to healing our differences and in turn will start to heal the planet. Together we can help avoid the tough times we live in. We must make an effort to make the planet healthy for our children.
By participating with us on social media it will show a wider audience the kindness you are putting out everyday and in time others will do the same. People get inspired by others good deeds, the more you do, the more people will join the movement to be kinder to each other as well as pay attention to the planet as a whole.
We invite you to join us on both Facebook and Twitter to spread the kindness. Feel free to post a message on our Facebook page or tag us in a Tweet. You can also use our hashtags like #PlannedActsOfKindness #KarmaClub and #ItsMyPlanet.
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