We must alert and organise the world’s people to pressure world leaders to take specific steps to solve the two root causes of our environmental crises – exploding population growth and wasteful consumption of irreplaceable resources. Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie every environmental problem we face today. Jacques Cousteau
Those who fail to see that population growth and climate change are two sides of the same coin are either ignorant or hiding from the truth. These two huge environmental problems are inseparable and to discuss one while ignoring the other is irrational. James Lovelock
You may have heard of the Earth Liberation Front: the Attorney General himself says it’s a domestic terrorist organisation; the FBI says it is one of the most dangerous groups in the country. The ELF has claimed responsibility for more than two-dozen acts of eco-terrorism. If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front, news, 2011
This thing is complex … no-one got hurt. ibid. Daniel
I protested constantly … I wrote hundreds of protest letters. ibid.
There is this new kind of protest … people would call it sabotage or monkeywrenching. ibid.
In the months after the Ranger Station fires there was a split within the environmental movement. ibid.
Six of Daniel’s co-defendants have appeared in court to accept plea-deals; in exchange for reduced sentences they’ve agreed to testify in the government’s case against the remaining defendants. ibid.
In 1999 tens of thousands of people converged on Seattle to protest the WTO and its effect on the environment and labour … The police responded with force to clear the streets. ibid.
The disaster is happening to our farmlands, it is happening to our oceans, our forests, our wildlife, it is happening to our climate. How long will it be until humanity understands that everything is interconnected? How long until multinational corporations understand that they can’t make a profit off a dead planet? So let the revolution begin. Night Moves 2013 starring Jesse Eisenberg & Dakota Fanning & Petre Sarsgaard & Alia Shawkat & Logan Miller & Kai Lennox & Katherine Waterston & Barry del Sherman et al, director Kelly Reichardt, environmental film
A new religious craze that is sweeping through the western industrialised nations. This religion is dangerous because it seeks to strip away our power of calm rational thought and replace it with blind religious sentiment to a creed that would seek to enslave us all: Environmentalism. The Corbett Report 006: Feudalism 2.0, James Corbett online 2007
What if they go way, way, way, way way too far? How would they know when it’s their time to go? Michael Moore Presents: Planet of the Humans, 2019
That was 1958. We’ve known about the dangers of climate change for six decades. Back then, there was so much air pollution, it would block out the sun. There was so much water pollution, rivers caught on fire. ibid.
Why are we still addicted to fossil fuels? ibid.
Green activists across the country cheered when newly elected president Barack Obama rolled out a trillion dollar stimulus pack with nearly a hundred billion dollars for green energy. ibid.
‘It would be charging off of our grid which is about 95% coal.’ ibid. Lansing’s electric vehicles
Wind farms were rising across the nation … They were impressive machines, but is it possible for machines made by industrial civilisation to save us from industrial civilisation? ibid.
Everywhere I encountered green energy it wasn’t what it seemed. ibid.
Ethanol was reliant on two things: a giant fossil fuel based industrial agricultural system to produce corn, and even more fossil fuels in the form of coal. ibid.
‘Renewables are intermittent … If you can store the energy that’s created … now you’re reducing your need for a baseload.’ ibid. expert
‘Joshua trees are torn down to make for solar projects.’ ibid. TV news
After all the mining, the fossil fuels, the toxins, the environmental destruction … then tear it down and start all over again. ibid.
What we have been calling green renewable energy and industrial civilisation are one and the same. ibid.
Biomass: burning trees to create electricity. ibid.
Biomass especially when you add in biofuels is by far the largest portion of green energy around the world. ibid.
The other elephant in the room: the profit motive. ibid.
The takeover of the environmental movement by capitalism is now complete. ibid.
Our human presence is already far beyond sustainability, and all that that implies. ibid.
Even some of the biggest polluters like to say they are doing their bit for the environment. But do these claims add up? … All is not as it seems with some of these environmental projects. Panorama: Big Brands’ Green Claims Uncovered, BBC 2024