Meat's Not Green

We must all work together in order to save the environment and the world that we live in from further change.

We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.

Global warming is one of those things, not like an earthquake where there's a big bang and you say, 'Oh, my God, this is really, has hit us.' It creeps up on you. Half a degree temperature difference from one year to the next, a little bit of rise of the ocean, a little bit of melting of the glaciers, and then all of a sudden it is too late to do something about it.

We simply must do everything we can in our power to slow down global warming before it is too late. The science is clear. The global warming debate is over.

It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life.

The more we exploit nature, The more our options are reduced, until we have only one: to fight for survival.

We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

I have to admit that, until recently, I was somewhat wary of the (global) warming debate. I believe it is now our responsibility to take the lead on this issue.

Give a man a fish, and he can eat for a day. But teach a man how to fish, and he'll be dead of mercury poisoning inside of three years.

Every day is Earth Day.

There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.

For 200 years we've been conquering Nature. Now we're beating it to death.

With laissez-faire and price atomic,
Ecology's Uneconomic,
But with another kind of logic
Economy's Unecologic.

Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature.

Waste is a tax on the whole people.

The blunt truth about the politics of climate change is that no country will want to sacrifice its economy in order to meet this challenge, but all economies know that the only sensible long term way of developing is to do it on a sustainable basis.

For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception until death.

The difference between animals and humans is that animals change themselves for the environment, but humans change the environment for themselves.

All I'm saying is that there is a price to be paid at the sharp end. environmentally and everywhere else. for the food that is produced in a particular way.

Fast food may appear to be cheap food and, in the literal sense it often is, but that is because huge social and environmental costs are being excluded from the calculations. Any analysis of the real cost would have to look at such things as the rise in food-borne illnesses, the advent of new pathogens, such as E.coli 0157, antibiotic resistance from the overuse of drugs in animal feed, extensive water pollution from intensive agricultural systems and many other factors. These costs are not reflected in the price of fast food.

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.

How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life?

I am not here as a public official, but as a citizen of a troubled world who finds hope in a growing consensus that the generally accepted goals of society are peace, freedom, human rights, environmental quality, the alleviation of suffering, and the rule of law.