Activity Quote by Ramez Naam

Every time we consume meat, eggs or dairy foods, we contribute to ecological devastation and the wasteful misuse of resources on a global scale.

— Ingrid Newkirk

Food and the way we grow it and produce it are a major cause of environmental degradation.

— Anonymous

Food production has affected the environment more than any other activity humans have engaged in. Humanity devotes more land to food production than anything…

— Ramez Naam

The technology of mass production is inherently violent, ecologically damaging, self-defeating in terms of non-renewable resources, and stultifying for the human person.

— E. F. Schumacher

Today, our air, food, water-all are polluted. If we do not stop exploiting nature for our temporary selfish gains, we will destroy the world.

— Mata Amritanandamayi

Humans are selfish, and because of our innate selfishness, I'm very confident that we can overcome any amount of environmental destruction.

— Liu Cixin

Human use of fossil fuels is altering the chemistry of the atmosphere; oceans are polluted and depleted of fish; 80 per cent of Earth's…

— David Suzuki

We are the environment. The world is literally one biological process. The trees are our lungs. Look at the Amazon River system next to…

— Ian Somerhalder

We've destroyed nature's lungs with toxic chemicals in air and water, which we also have been consuming.

— Sanjay Mishra

Agriculture is the most destructive industry that we have. More than coal mining and other extractive industries.

— Allan Savory

Unless the human race realizes with a passion and reverence beyond thought or words its inter-being with nature, it will destroy in its greed…

— Andrew Harvey

“It magnifies your carbon footprint. If you cut back your animal food intake, you can make a big impact on planet Earth. Each year…

— Sharon Palmer