“We are looking ahead, as is one of the first mandates given us as chiefs, to
make sure and to make every decision that we make relate to the welfare and well-being of the seventh generation to come. … What about the seventh generation? Where are you taking them? What will they have?” -Oren Lyons, Chief of the Onondaga Nation
Facts matter. Although the world witnessed five extinctions before the rise of homo sapiens, the sixth great extinction known as the Holocene extinction is
happening all around us every day and is largely attributed to unfettered human destruction.