Quotes About Sustainability

In addition to beating back hunger, the ability to grow more food from less land has been, on the whole, good for the planet.

Once the secrets to growing food in abundance are unlocked and the infrastructure to move it around is in place, the decline of famine depends on the decline of poverty, war, and autocracy.

Si algo no puede continuar indefinidamente, puede continuar mucho más tiempo del que piensas».

If agricultural efficiency had remained the same over the past fifty years while the world grew the same amount of food, an area the size of the United States, Canada, and China combined would have had to be cleared and plowed.

technology expert Kevin Kelly has proposed that "over time, if a technology persists long enough, its costs begin to approach (but never reach) zero.

There is no credible path to reducing global carbon emissions without an enormous expansion of nuclear power.

Ecomodernists point out that organic farming, which needs far more land to produce a kilogram of food, is neither green nor sustainable.)

Better still, improvements build on one another. A richer world can better afford to protect the environment, police its gangs, strengthen its social safety nets, and teach and heal its citizens. A better-educated and connected world cares more about the environment, indulges fewer autocrats, and starts fewer wars.

In 1909 Carl Bosch perfected a process invented by Fritz Haber which used methane and steam to pull nitrogen out of the air and turn it into fertilizer on an industrial scale, replacing the massive quantities of bird poop that had previously been needed to return nitrogen to depleted soils. Those two chemists top the list of the 20th-century scientists who saved the greatest number of lives in history, with 2.7 billion.

Thanks to the Green Revolution, the world needs less than a third of the land it used to need to produce a given amount of food.23 Another way of stating the bounty is that between 1961 and 2009 the amount of land used to grow food increased by 12 percent, but the amount of food that was grown increased by 300 percent.24 In addition to beating back hunger, the ability to grow more food from less land has been, on the whole, good for the planet.

I love the idea that biodiesel has the potential to support farmers, especially the family farms.

Sometimes what I actually love to do is go to a farm and get fresh milk or watch a pig get slaughtered.

I love lean meats like chicken, turkey. I'm obsessed with sushi and fish in general. I eat a lot of veggies and hummus.

You can grow without destroying the things that you love.

If we love the sea as much as we claim to we'll do everything we possibly can to keep it healthy. Otherwise we might as well take up golf.

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

How do we love all the children of all species for all time?

A love of nature keeps no factories busy.

I doubt that most people with short-term thinking love the natural world enough to save it.

Fast Action Plan: Eat wild salmon twice a week.

Eight cereal grains (wheat, corn, rice, barley, sorghum, oats, rye, and millet) now provide 56 percent of the calories and 50 percent of the protein consumed on earth. Without these crops, the planet could not support six billion people. So

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When we look at the world, we perceive only what is enough for our plans and actions to work and for us to get by.

Hubo un pasado en el que cada generación exprimió la Tierra y pensó que la siguiente solucionaría todos los problemas, la escasez, el hambre y la guerra. Y aquella fue una etapa maldita.