Accurate except--for the much larger number of even more unacknowledged lives strapped UNDER the slaves strapped under our shoes. All the nonhuman beings in the world, who are dying, displaced by humans and our livestock. Humans now make up about 30% of the mass of mammals and our livestock over 60%--ALL the wild creatures together now total 4 %. Insects are declining at a steady 2% per year. A few more decades of this and we will have done so much damage to ecosystems that we won't survive either. And hardly anybody talks about this crisis, even those who worry about climate change.. This is not an issue that is "more important" than the ignorance and indifference of privileged humans toward the less privileged--it's part of the same phenomenon, the same aggressive, violent culture based on domination. Stepping back before it's too late from global annihilation due to ecological destruction goes hand in hand with removing the blinders that keep us from seeing "the other" as human. But since the most sociopathic among us own and control the communication systems, and these people are literally insane, caring about nothing but getting even richer--it doesn't look good.