The most patriotic thing you can do is to take care of the environment and try to live sustainably.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.The factory meat industry has polluted thousands of miles of America's rivers, killed billions of fish, pushed tens of thousands of family farmers off their land, sickened and killed thousands of U.S. citizens, and treated millions of farm animals with unspeakable and unnecessary cruelty.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.The best measure of how a democracy is functioning is how it allocates the goods of the land, the public trust assets.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.We protect nature not for nature's sake but for our own sake because it's the infrastructure of our communities.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.You show me a polluter, I'll show you a subsidy. I'll show you a fat cat using political clout to escape the discipline of the free market and force the public to pay his production costs.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.Listen, the environmental movement is not about protecting the fishes and the birds so much as recognizing that nature is the infrastructure of our communities ... If you're saying the values that drive the environmental movement are uncool and antithetical to America, then I would argue just the opposite. If you think being patriotic is not cool, I'd say that's not true either. I'd say the most patriotic thing you can do is to take care of the environment and try to live sustainably.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.