We all share the guilt. Every one of them could've been prevented if we'd taken only what we needed. Progress and technological advancement do not have to translate into pollution, oppression, death, and gluttony.
Sustainability is a key principle of the vegan way of life.
Keeping the planet and the body healthy and productive just makes common sense yet we surround ourselves with a throw-away culture and consume with no concern for tomorrow. We're digging our graves with our own teeth. In 1989 the world's top ecologists and environmental scientists had a meeting at which they agreed that we have a 20 year window in which to reverse the destruction of our environment before the processes that make the Earth livable collapse in on one another. A few weeks later, IBM and Dupont came out with their own experts who said that we have 60 years. That's our lifetime.