Words from Jane Goodall
We're going through very dark times: socially, politically and especially environmentally.And lots of people are kind of losing hope, because you get this message, think globally, act locally. But if you think globally, you get really depressed. So, the message is about acting locally. And the main message is that each one of us makes some impact on the planet every single day.....
We need people to address each of the pillars that have led to climate change, like our industrial agriculture, our reliance on fossil fuels and this intensive animal farming that creates all this methane that leads to all these greenhouse gases, the destruction of the forest-apparently the equivalent of a football pitch amount of forest every minute around the world And then you get the pollution of the ocean, which is the other lung of the world, and both of them absorb carbon dioxide and give out oxygen. The ocean is now supersaturated.
We are putting economic development ahead of protection of the environment. We're forgetting we are part of the natural world. We depend on it. And we're in the middle of the sixth great extinction, because of all the pollution and harm that we've done, and we don't seem to realize that if we go on carrying on a though we can have unlimited economic development on a planet with finite natural resources, it's going to be us extinct as well.
We're going through very dark times: socially, politically and especially environmentally.And lots of people are kind of losing hope, because you get this message, think globally, act locally. But if you think globally, you get really depressed. So, the message is about acting locally. And the main message is that each one of us makes some impact on the planet every single day.....
We need people to address each of the pillars that have led to climate change, like our industrial agriculture, our reliance on fossil fuels and this intensive animal farming that creates all this methane that leads to all these greenhouse gases, the destruction of the forest-apparently the equivalent of a football pitch amount of forest every minute around the world And then you get the pollution of the ocean, which is the other lung of the world, and both of them absorb carbon dioxide and give out oxygen. The ocean is now supersaturated.
We are putting economic development ahead of protection of the environment. We're forgetting we are part of the natural world. We depend on it. And we're in the middle of the sixth great extinction, because of all the pollution and harm that we've done, and we don't seem to realize that if we go on carrying on a though we can have unlimited economic development on a planet with finite natural resources, it's going to be us extinct as well.
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