This essay is in radical need of a TL;DR. If something is this important, you owe it to the subject matter not to bury the lede under a mountain of history and flowery exposition.

Ask yourself: who is this for? People who are not already deeply passionate will stop reading unless they are engaged in a minute of reading. Note that a minute is being extremely generous; on a commercial consumer site, it's apparently an average of 7 seconds before someone will click away.

I recommend that you check out this video and reconsider how you might reframe your message as a call to action that speaks to a better future we can create together.

https://youtu.be/qp0HIF3SfI4?t=121

I even jumped you to the good part.