Louie Psihoyos famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Humanity is creating an extinction event that will make every war ever fought a footnote to history. We belong to the only generation in history that can turn this around - we're one step away from greatness or the biggest disaster since the meteor wiped out the dinosaurs.
-- Louie Psihoyos

#War #Greatness #Creating
What gives me hope is art - it's the most powerful weapons ever created. It's a weapon of mass construction.
-- Louie Psihoyos

#Art #Powerful #Giving
Change doesn't need to be overwhelming; it is not impossible.
-- Louie Psihoyos

#Needs #Impossible #Overwhelming
Our planet is currently undergoing a mass extinction of species called the Anthropocene - the Age of Man.
-- Louie Psihoyos

#Men #Mass Extinction #Age
I want to do the most subversive thing I couldn't do as a child: I want to take back the planet's future.
-- Louie Psihoyos

#Children #Want #Planets
To me, youâ€™re either an activist or an inactivist.
-- Louie Psihoyos

#Activist
Yes, we need to change, but simple changes can have profound impacts.
-- Louie Psihoyos

#Simple #Impact #Profound
A vegetarian driving a Hummer emits less carbon than a meat eater on a bicycle.
-- Louie Psihoyos

#Meat #Vegetarian #Driving
At the end of the century, humans will look back at our impact on the planet and World War II will be a footnote compared to us presiding over the largest loss of biodiversity since a meteor hit the planet sixty-five million years ago.
-- Louie Psihoyos

#War #Loss #Impact
The single most impactful thing you can do today is adopt a more plant-based diet.
-- Louie Psihoyos

#Today #Plant #Diets
If you can reach just 10 percent of the population, you can begin to reach a tipping point; that's where true social movements take place - it's a numbers game. And when you reach that number, the truth becomes obvious and empires of injustice crumble and fall.
-- Louie Psihoyos

#Fall #Games #Numbers
The action we take in the next few years will impact the Earth hundreds of millions of years from now.
-- Louie Psihoyos

#Impact #Years #Earth
Cowspiracy may be the most important film made to inspire saving the planet.
-- Louie Psihoyos

#Inspire #Important #Saving
Half of all species on Earth could disappear by the end of the century because of our collective impact.
-- Louie Psihoyos

#Impact #Half #Earth
I lived through the Cold War as a child, and we always thought a nuclear bomb could end life everywhere at any time. On one hand, it created an atmosphere where you lived for the moment - because it could end at any second - but on the other, it warped a generation into thinking t there was no reasonable expectation of building a future that could be vaporized at any moment by a few morons.
-- Louie Psihoyos

#Children #War #Thinking

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