Only people with full stomachs become environmentalists.
David BrinTags: people environment environmentalism practicality realism environmentalists logistics
These folk are hewers of trees and hunters of beasts; therefore we are their unfriends, and if they will not depart we shall afflict them in all ways that we can.
J.R.R. TolkienTags: vegetarianism environment vegan vegetarian meat ecology tolkien elves deforestation peta ecocide animal-liberation-front earth-first
Americans make more trash than anyone else on the planet, throwing away about 7.1 pounds per person per day, 365 days a year. Across a lifetime that rate means, on average, we are each on track to generate 102 tons of trash. Each of our bodies may occupy only one cemetery plot when we’re done with this world, but a single person’s 102-ton trash legacy will require the equivalent of 1,100 graves. Much of that refuse will outlast any grave marker, pharaoh’s pyramid or modern skyscraper: One of the few relics of our civilization guaranteed to be recognizable twenty thousand years from now is the potato chip bag.
Edward HumesTags: environment ecology waste recycling garbage trash
Few of us are aware that the act of eating can be a powerful statement of commitment to our own well-being, and at the same time the creation of a healthier habitat. Your health, happiness, and the future of life on earth are rarely so much in your own hands as when you sit down to eat.
John RobbinsTags: food environment health earth
Hurricanes couldn’t remove you from my mind. You’re my world and I’m incapable of not loving you.
Billie-Jo WilliamsTags: adventure romance environment tyranny fantasy dragons fiction magic persecution vampires dragon pirates angel werewolves werewolf series epic facebook kindle ebook good-vs-evil epic-fantasy nook indie-author self-published debut-novel destiny-of-dragons military-fantasy smashwords
We are seeds as well as parasites to the earth. We can either give or take, depending on our perception of growth.
Zephyr McIntyreTags: philosophy environment environmental-conservation
The truth is: the natural world is changing. And we are totally dependent on that world. It provides our food, water and air. It is the most precious thing we have and we need to defend it.
David AttenboroughTags: science nature environment conservation
If the world is polluted, we are polluted. If the world dies, we die anyway. I don't pretend to be separate from the world. If she is poisoned, I jump in and be poisoned with her.
J. Gabriel GatesTags: environment
To speak of ‘limits to growth’ under a capitalistic market economy is as meaningless as to speak of limits of warfare under a warrior society. The moral pieties, that are voiced today by many well-meaning environmentalists, are as naive as the moral pieties of multinationals are manipulative. Capitalism can no more be ‘persuaded’ to limit growth than a human being can be ‘persuaded’ to stop breathing. Attempts to ‘green’ capitalism, to make it ‘ecological’, are doomed by the very nature of the system as a system of endless growth.
Murray BookchinTags: environment ecology pollution
We tend to think of environmental catastrophes—such as the recent Exxon Valdez oil-spill disaster in the Bay of Alaska—as "accidents": isolated phenomena that erupt without notice or warning. But when does the word accident become inappropriate? When are such occurrences inevitable rather than accidental? And when does a consistent pattern of inevitable disasters point to a deep-seated crisis that is not only environmental but profoundly social?
Murray BookchinTags: nature environment oil pollution oil-spill
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