The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here

If there is something in the world nobler than a good dog, I have not yet encountered it.

The number of endangered species within freshwater habitats is greater, proportionally, than in the land and ocean combined.

Is it prudent that the literal seeds of global food production should rest in the hands of fewer than five American companies, to sell or withhold as they see fit?

The people of the OECD, while representing only one-sixth of the global population, use one-third of the world’s energy and half of the world’s electricity and are responsible for one-third of the world’s carbon dioxide emissions. Not only that, but the OECD consumes one-third of the world’s meat as well as one-third of the world’s sugar.

It makes sense that the most effective and long-lasting mechanism for curbing global population growth revolves around an elimination of gender inequality.

A full 30 percent of the fresh water used by humans on planet Earth is spent in the production, maintenance, and slaughter of meat animals. The twenty-five billion cows, pigs, and chickens that live in captivity while waiting to be slaughtered are given medicine in vast amounts. As of 1990, two-thirds of the antibiotics used in the United States ar

During the 1950s, a calf commonly passed the one-hundred-pound mark during its third month of life; today, they routinely break two hundred pounds in just fifty days. Today’s milk cow produces more than six gallons of milk each day, which is both double the amount of fifty years ago and a statistic that can only be fully appreciated by someone who

Henry George was also right in that most of the want and suffering that we see in our world today originates not from Earth’s inability to provide but from our inability to share, as we’ll see so many times in later pages. It is because so many of us consume far beyond our needs that a great many more of us are left with almost nothing.

Sooner or later we will have to reconsider the fact that every year, we actively waste 90 percent of the grain we feed to animals, in exchange for a little meat and a lot of manure.