If we do not save the environment, then whatever we do in civil rights will be of no meaning, because then we will have the equality of extinction.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes that environmental preservation is crucial for the future of civil rights and humanity's survival.
James L. Farmer, Jr. suggests that without a healthy environment, efforts towards civil rights become futile. The equality of extinction implies that if environmental issues are not addressed, all societal progress, including civil rights, will be rendered meaningless as humanity faces catastrophic consequences.
In practice
In a speech about environmental justice, one could use this quote to link civil rights with ecological responsibility.
Loss of genetic diversity in agriculture is leading us to a rendezvous with extinction--to the doorstep of hunger on a scale we refuse to imagine. To simplify the environment as we have done with agriculture is to destroy the complex interrelationships that hold the natural world together. Reducing the diversity of life, we narrow our options for the future and render our own survival more precarious.
Born a wildlife warrior, die a wildlife warrior.
Coral reefs, the rain forest of the ocean, are home for one-third of the species of the sea. Coral reefs are under stress for several reasons, including warming of the ocean, but especially because of ocean acidification, a direct effect of added carbon dioxide. Ocean life dependent on carbonate shells and skeletons is threatened by dissolution as the ocean becomes more acid.
What did the earth teach the trees? _x000D_ How to speak to the sky.
The Earth is given as a common for men to labor and live in.
To slaughter grand and beautiful creatures like these tuskers, whether terrestrial or marine, solely to obtain a few teeth indicates that we have not evolved very much since the days our forebears lived in caves and saught to prove their superiority by adorning themselves with teeth and claws
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