Racing Extinction Quotes
Joel Sartore: I really hope the PhotoArt isn't just some sort of an archive of the things we lost but instead it's a chance to get people interested, look these animals in the eye, and fall in love with them.
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Joel Sartore: PhotoArk is my 20 year attempt to photograph every captive species on Earth. One guy's desperate attempt to get people to care. That's it. There he is, the very last Rabbs' fringe-limbed tree frog. The very last one. Chytrid fungus wiped them all out in Panama, so he's the last one. That's it. When he's gone they'll be extinct.
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Eric Goode - Founder: I think you can compare something like this, or nature in general, to the finest works of art on the planet. In my opinion more than the best Picasso, Matisse, Warhol.
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Eric Goode - Founder: Life wants to flourish. DNA wants to go forward. We need to be part of that.
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Louie Schwartzberg - Filmmaker: Why would we want to do anything to disrupt something that took billions of years to evolve?
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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.
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Jason Hall-Spencer - Marine Biologist, Plymouth University: So the Arctic has been getting gradually warmer, and the methane that has been locked away for millions of years is starting to come out
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John Veron: When all this gets going we will have what's called a run-away effect. That's run-away climate change. And it's unstoppable.
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Travis Threlkel: Early photographs were circular. Even early TVs were circular. But to make more out of the medium there was a decision made to crop it into a box. And the box has a lot to do with the way we think. My way has always been blowing up the medium into a million pieces and letting it become a something else.
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Louie Psihoyos: Eighty percent of the greenhouse gases that are caused by cities are caused by commercial buildings.
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Tony Malkin: The best way to move the needle when people are talking about the environment is the bottom line.
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Lester Brown: The more dependent we are on meat, milk, and eggs, the greater the C02 and methane emissions.
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