If you want to know where you would have stood on slavery before the Civil War, don’t look at where you stand on slavery today. Look at where you stand on animal rights.
In the great scheme of things, what matters is not how long you live but why you live, what you stand for and what you are willing to die for.
There is a lack of economic and political motivation to defend life in the oceans. The profit is made by companies exploiting the oceans and they have the money to buy the politicians who make the laws.
Unless we stop the degradation of our oceans, marine ecological systems will begin collapsing and when enough of them fail, the oceans will die. And if the oceans die, then civilization collapses and we all die.
It is true that many of the Sea Shepherd crewmembers are inexperienced, but the fact is that these volunteers bring a passion to the project that cannot be found in a hired crew.
We are literally eating the oceans alive and there are simply not enough fish to continue to feed an ever expanding population of humanity.
A vegan riding a hummer contributes less to greenhouse gas emissions than a meat eater riding a bicycle.
That fact is that we live in an extremely violent culture, and we all justify violence if it’s for what we believe in .
There is no sustainable future for fisheries as long as human populations continue to increase.
Follow your dreams and use your natural-born talents and skills to make this a better world for tomorrow.
Intelligence is the ability of a species to live in harmony with its environment.
Musicians have made incredible contributions to the conservation and environmental movement and continue to do so, more than ever.
Almost all theological thought is anthropocentric and I just cannot buy into the anthropocentric ideology. Basically we’re a bunch of conceited apes.
The tragedy is that there is so much more incentive – money – to destroy the ecology than there is to preserve it.
I can assure you no whales are going to be killed today.