Environmental Ethics Quotes

“Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that which is inferior or detrimental, as though having lost the will or the vision to demand that which is good?”
― Rachel Carson, Silent Spring

“Godliness is the root of cleanliness.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“In some parts of the world, what you are doing is already apparent. According to the World Health Organization, the warming of the planet caused an additional 140,000 deaths in 2004, as compared with the number of deaths there would have been had average global temperatures remained as they were during the period 1961 to 1990. This means that climate change is already causing, every week, as many deaths as occurred in the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.”
― Peter Singer, Practical Ethics

“There is no place left for the buffalo to roam. There’s only corn, wheat, and soy. About the only animals that escaped the biotic cleansing of the agriculturalists are small animals like mice and rabbits, and billions of them are killed by the harvesting equipment every year. Unless you’re out there with a scythe, don’t forget to add them to the death toll of your vegetarian meal. They count, and they died for your dinner, along with all the animals that have dwindled past the point of genetic feasibility.”
― Lierre Keith, The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability

“Earth and animal activists need to join forces against powerful corporations that are destroying both the earth and anymals.”
― Lisa Kemmerer, Eating Earth: Environmental Ethics and Dietary Choice

“Worldwide, animal agriculture emits more carbon dioxide than any other single source.”
― Lisa Kemmerer, Eating Earth: Environmental Ethics and Dietary Choice

“Because feeding grains to farmed animals is wasteful, only 37% of current croplands are needed if we shift to a vegan diet”
― Lisa Kemmerer, Eating Earth: Environmental Ethics and Dietary Choice

“The U.S. can retire more than 60% of cultivated lands if people choose a plant-based diet, and we would use much less water, pesticides, fossil fuels, and chemical fertilizers.”
― Lisa Kemmerer, Eating Earth: Environmental Ethics and Dietary Choice

“Grass-fed cattle create more greenhouse gases (50–60% more methane) than grain-fed cattle.”
― Lisa Kemmerer, Eating Earth: Environmental Ethics and Dietary Choice

“Diet–a choice we make every day, several times a day-determines the size of our environmental footprint.”
― Lisa Kemmerer, Eating Earth: Environmental Ethics and Dietary Choice

“Nonhuman primates have been crowded out of diminishing forests, hunted for food or “medicine,” kidnapped for the lucrative pet/tourist trade, and bred for science. As a result, every primate species on the planet—aside from human beings—is either endangered or threatened.”
― Lisa Kemmerer, Primate People: Saving Nonhuman Primates through Education, Advocacy, and Sanctuary

“Might does not make right; self-interest—even desperate self-interest—does not justify exploiting others.”
― Lisa Kemmerer, Primate People: Saving Nonhuman Primates through Education, Advocacy, and Sanctuary

“The history of cruelty inflicted in the name of morals has convinced me that the increase of identification might achieve what moralizing cannot: beautiful actions.”
― Arne Næss