#climate change quotes

[psykopaths]

The Hidden Life of Trees, (2020)

[marauderstars]

The marauders’ signs at a climate change rally:

Sirius: “You don’t have to change for anyone climate! Yass queen! Slay those fossil fuels!”

Regulus: “How will I throw shade if all the trees are dead?”

Peter: “I wish I could bake a cake filled with rainbows and smiles and everyone would eat and be happy.”

James: “This is not the Hot Girl Summer I had in mind.”

Remus: “Leonardo DiCaprio’s girlfriends deserve a future.”

[reasonsforhope]

"To change our relationship to the physical world – to end an era of profligate consumption by the few that has consequences for the many – means changing how we think about pretty much everything: wealth, power, joy, time, space, nature, value, what constitutes a good life, what matters, how change itself happens. As the climate journalist Mary Heglar writes, we are not short on innovation. “We’ve got loads of ideas for solar panels and microgrids. While we have all of these pieces, we don’t have a picture of how they come together to build a new world. For too long, the climate fight has been limited to scientists and policy experts. While we need their skills, we also need so much more. When I survey the field, it’s clear that what we desperately need is more artists.”" -Rebecca Solnit. Emphasis added.

Artists are so so important. I've had people tell me they feel bad because, as an artist, they don't think they can contribute anything worthwhile to climate change. They're wrong.

We cannot build a future we cannot imagine. Artists are so important. Artists show us what could be - what we could be

[charliejaneanders]

In 2008, so many people thought that Obama’s election would usher us into a post-racial America. It was laughable then, and it is even more laughable now. My view is that racism is still the most intractable issue in this country. There are so many issues that one can put on the list of intractability—climate change and poverty. It seems America no longer has the will, even if we have the skill to do the hard things. Wrestling with climate change is hard. Wrestling with poverty and economic immobility is hard. Wrestling with the history and persistence of racism in this country is incredibly hard.

Tavis Smiley Is “Increasingly Concerned About the Monopolized America We Live In” (Washington Monthly)

[atompowers]

"If We Destroy Nature, There Won't Be Anything Left. No Bugs, No Us, Nothing!" — Beedle, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

[nobeerreviews]

The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm but because of those who look at it without doing anything.

-- Albert Einstein

(asphalt melting, Switzerland)

[albertayebisackey]

“The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.” — Paulo Coelho

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Pat Byrnes :: @thePatByrnes

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“Here’s all I’m trying to say: The planet on which our civilization evolved no longer exists. The stability that produced that civilization has vanished; epic changes have begun. (My favorite bleak headline, from USA Today in May 2009, describes a new study from the American Meteorological Society: “Global Warming May Be Twice as Bad as Previously Expected.”)

We may, with commitment and luck, yet be able to maintain a planet that will sustain some kind of civilization, but it won’t be the same planet, and hence it can’t be the same civilization. The earth that we knew—the only earth that we ever knew—is gone.” ― Bill McKibben, Earth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet

[hope-for-the-planet]

Climate change is not only a threat, it is, above all, an opportunity to create a healthier, greener, and cleaner planet which will benefit all of us. We must seize this opportunity.

Greta Thurnberg

[elledeau]

“We should stop treating a great many human-made systems—like monarchies and supreme courts and borders and billionaires—as immutable and unchangeable. Because everything some humans created can be changed by other humans. And if our present systems threaten life to its very core, and they do, then they must be changed.

…The known world is crumbling. That’s okay. It was an edifice stitched together with denial and disavowal, with unseeing and unknowing, with mirrors and shadows. It needed to crash. Now, in the rubble, we can make something more reliable, more worthy of our trust, more able to survive the coming shocks.”

-Naomi Klein, Doppelgänger

[givemearmstopraywith]

I wanted to understand this perversity better, so I called up climate-aware psychoanalyst Dennis Haseley. He helped me see that, once you know what to look for, the perversion is everywhere. Say you’re watching a football game on TV and then a commercial comes on. What’s on the screen? Quite often, a lot of big, gas-guzzling trucks. These commercials become a way of warding off the force of the climate crisis, denying the reality that it’s harmful to invest in a future filled with combustion engine vehicles. “People are saying, ‘Yeah, we can buy trucks, I love trucks, I want the one with 460 horsepower!’ and I’m sitting there thinking, you know, what the fuck are you doing? Don’t you see what’s happening?” Haseley said. The truck is the desirable object that helps us pretend.

Britt Wray, Generation Dread

[acti-veg]

“Unlike past occasions when a single species or group of species has fundamentally altered the biosphere - the oxygenation of the oceans, the laying down of the coal swamps - our species is in an unusual position of control over the outcome.

We know that change is occurring, we know that we are responsible, we know what will happen if it continues, we know that we can try to stop it, and we know how. The question is whether we will try.”

-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands

[charliejaneanders]

My darkest future timeline involves a vicious cycle, in which climate change leads to widespread devastation, which leads to chaos and human misery, which strengthens the grip of authoritarian leaders — who in turn plunge us deeper into climate chaos.

I wrote about one solid reason to vote next week: because climate change is on the ballot

[90s-kid-sad-adult]

[thegirlinterruptedsblog]

stay close to people that feel like sunlight🤍.

[kosmoland]