The symbol above represents extinction. The circle signifies the planet, while the hourglass inside serves as a warning that time is rapidly running out for many species. The world is currently undergoing a mass extinction event, and this symbol is intended to help raise awareness of the urgent need for change in order to address this crisis. Estimates are that somewhere between 30,000 and 140,000 species are becoming extinct every year in what scientists have named the Holocene, or Sixth Mass Extinction. This ongoing process of destruction is being caused by the impact of human activity. Within the next few decades approximately 50% of all species that now exist will have become extinct. Such a catastrophic loss of biodiversity is highly likely to cause widespread ecosystem collapse and consequently render the planet uninhabitable for humans.

No extinction symbol merchandise exists, and it never will do. The free use of the extinction symbol by individuals in their personal artwork or other forms of expression is strongly welcomed and encouraged, but any form of commercial use of the symbol is completely against its ethos and should therefore be refrained from. To reiterate, please do not use the symbol on any items that will be sold, or for any other fundraising purposes. There are no exceptions to this policy.

• How is it any different from the cultist sales of iPhones and Android phones or the people who purchase them?
• The outrage should be about the “715 gallons to produce the cotton needed for one t-shirt – that is almost three years’ worth of drinking water.” (WWF) and the toxic chemicals dumped into water ways.
• Sadly, unscrupulous people will always capitalize on issues and emotions. Look no further than Trump and family or those who sell Trump protest wares. 

“We are in the midst of the sixth mass extinction, with about 200 species becoming extinct each day. Humans cannot continue to violate the fundamental laws of nature or of science with impunity.” #ExtinctionRebellion

— Greta Thunberg‏  @GretaThunberg -  Oct 27, 2018

Facts about our ecological crisis are incontrovertible. We must take action, The Guardian

“I think if more people really understood the climate science, the extinction rate and just all the terrible statistics about what we’re doing to our planet, they would be motivated, too. If everyone just paid attention to the facts, everyone would be a climate activist.”,  Alexandria Villaseñor, a 13-year-old environmental activist

Villaseñor has emerged as a leader within the youth climate movement ― a movement that scientists say has moved the needle on action to address the climate emergency.

British Prime Minister Theresa May, 62, criticized students for wasting valuable class time, and an Australian education minister [Rob Stokes] warned that children and teachers would be punished for participating in March 15 rallies.

“We hear you. And we don’t care,” Greta Thunberg wrote on Twitter in response to the Australian official’s demands. “Your statement belongs in a museum.” (Thunberg has since been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.)

“We are in the midst of the sixth mass extinction,” Thunberg

“It’s no longer acceptable for politicians who say they want to take action on climate change to just acknowledge the science and propose piecemeal solutions,” Stephen O’Hanlon told HuffPost. “If they want to be taken seriously by our generation, they need to back solutions that actually take action.”

A movement that began with a single teenager distributing homemade fliers outside the Swedish parliament last summer became a global phenomenon on Friday, as students worldwide skipped school and took to the streets to urgently demand that adults combat the perils of climate change.

Starting in the South Pacific and moving west with the sun, the protests blanketed grand city centers and humble village squares. Organizers said they were expecting demonstrations in at least 112 countries, in more than 1,700 locations.

The coordinated demonstrations were planned as the largest manifestation to date of the Fridays for Future movement, in which students forgo classes each week in favor of something they have said is more important: pleading for action on an issue that will affect every person on the planet, but young people most of all…

U.N. researchers have said the world has only the next dozen years to halt the most catastrophic impacts of climate change. These effects, they say, include rising seas that inundate cities, crop failures that spawn famines and more severe and frequent weather-related disasters that ravage communities and cause billions of dollars in damage. But politicians remain far off track in their efforts to address the issue.

They hate us for smiling, they hate us for crying, they hate us for speaking, they hate us for being alive - they hate us. What's important to remember is that their argument against us is so weak and futile that they have to resort to attacking the people delivering the message. 

— Emma González‏ @Emma4Change -  Feb 26, 2018

Dear Mr. President, when will you get a Department of Justice with teeth? Voter fraud, criminal “sanctuary” hideouts, mass illegal invasion, the opioid epidemic, gang murders, drug cartels are all rotting the soul of our blessed America. Unleash the dogs of war, sir. It is time.

— James Woods‏ @RealJamesWoods -  Feb 28, 2018