Louie Psihoyos Quotes

• 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.

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  War, Greatness, Creating

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• Our planet is currently undergoing a mass extinction of species called the Anthropocene - the Age of Man.

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  Men, Mass Extinction, Age

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• Change doesn't need to be overwhelming; it is not impossible.

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  Needs, Impossible, Overwhelming

  "Oscar- winning Director Louie Psihoyos: RACING Our Own EXTINCTION". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• To me, you’re either an activist or an inactivist.

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  Activist

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• What gives me hope is art - it's the most powerful weapons ever created. It's a weapon of mass construction.

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  Art, Powerful, Giving

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• Yes, we need to change, but simple changes can have profound impacts.

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  Simple, Impact, Profound

  "Oscar- winning Director Louie Psihoyos: RACING Our Own EXTINCTION". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• 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

  "Oscar- winning Director Louie Psihoyos: RACING Our Own EXTINCTION". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• A vegetarian driving a Hummer emits less carbon than a meat eater on a bicycle.

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  Meat, Vegetarian, Driving

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• The single most impactful thing you can do today is adopt a more plant-based diet.

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  Today, Plant, Diets

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• 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

  "Oscar- winning Director Louie Psihoyos: RACING Our Own EXTINCTION". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The action we take in the next few years will impact the Earth hundreds of millions of years from now.

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  Impact, Years, Earth

  "Oscar- winning Director Louie Psihoyos: RACING Our Own EXTINCTION". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• 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

  "Oscar- winning Director Louie Psihoyos: RACING Our Own EXTINCTION". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Cowspiracy may be the most important film made to inspire saving the planet.

  Louie Psihoyos

  Inspire, Important, Saving

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• Half of all species on Earth could disappear by the end of the century because of our collective impact.

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  Impact, Half, Earth

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• 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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