Ecocide Quotes

The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized.

Without reverence we [people] will gradually descend into ecocide. In the degree that the imperatives of the market - the temple of the Mall - govern our lives, we are in escalating danger of destroying the commonwealth of all sentient beings - bugs and bees and buntings - on which we depend for a luxurious life on planet earth.

There's so much burying of heads in sand going on in the U.S., people are finally beginning to recognize that the environment is dying, but it's far too late, and I am conflicted.

The genocide will not necessarily take the form of war, or death camps. Most likely it will take the form of ecocide, in which landscapes are devastated and the populations that live there slowly starve or turn upon each other savagely because there isn't enough food or water to go around.

Do we hate paradise so much we need to make sure it becomes a trash heap?

Tree killing is arborcide.

Today, the tide has turned, we are destroying them.

I wanted to destroy everything beautiful I'd never have. Burn the Amazon rain forests. Pump chlorofluorocarbons straight up to gobble the ozone. Open the dump valves on supertankers and uncap offshore oil wells. I wanted to kill all the fish I couldn't afford to eat, and smother the French beaches I'd never see. I wanted the whole world to hit bottom.

If you can kill animals, the same attitude can kill human beings. The mentality is the same which exploits nature and which creates wars.

As cruel a weapon as the cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life.

We are using our own skins for wallpaper and we cannot win.