Racing Extinction (2015)

Louie Psihoyos: Self - Undercover Investigator

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• Louie Psihoyos : When you factor in everything, the clearing of the land for grazing, feeding, transporting, livestock causes more greenhouse gases than all the direct emissions from the entire transportation sector.

• Louie Psihoyos : It's like we're living in the age of dinosaurs *but* we can do something about it.

• Louie Psihoyos : The Blue Whale is the biggest creature on the planet, bigger than any dinosaur ever. Just like dinosaurs, they're going extinct.

• Louie Psihoyos : We have many many ways to fix this problem. The question is are we going to do it fast enough?

• Louie Psihoyos : It's an incredibly inefficient way of producing food. Three-quarters of agricultural land is used just to feed livestock.

• Louie Psihoyos : A cow can basically fill up a 55-gallon garbage bag full of methane every day. One cow's not a problem, but now we have 1.5 billion of 'em!

• Louie Psihoyos : My hope is that if you can show people the beauty of these animals, there's a chance to save these things.

• Louie Psihoyos : We're at that tipping point now, where it's either too late or just the beginning of a movement.

• Louie Psihoyos : Sharks pre-date dinosaurs. They survived four mass extinction events. And in just this one generation that I've been alive, we've cut down their numbers by about 90%.

• Louie Psihoyos : In the Arctic, in these cold regions around the planet, underneath the lakes, underneath the oceans, there's vast, vast quantities of frozen methane that's been under there for millions of years.

• Louie Psihoyos : Eighty percent of the greenhouse gases that are caused by cities are caused by commercial buildings.