#climate change quotes

[jun-hug]

A final for one of my classes, my profesor said i should post this somewhere :)

words belong to Alanis Obomsawin,

an American-Canadian of Abenaki descent, a documentary filmmaker, though this is not where I first heard them.

When the Last Tree Is Cut Down,

The Last Fish Ate

The Last Stream Poisoned.

You Will Realize That You Cannot Eat Money.

Native American saying, first written in 1972. Still relevant when more than half a century old, and we can see how it manifests itself in real time. I personally came across a version of it in Aurora's song "The Seed," originally titled "Eat Money." Quoting her "It's about human history, about how we've co-existed in the world and how we've forgotten how to live with nature and the power we have."

❗️Do not upload / repost my art anywhere.❗️

[that-bitch-kat3]

james: not to be dramatic but i want remus and sirius together happy and in love more than i want the war to be over.

[psykopaths]

The Hidden Life of Trees, (2020)

[lindseyarchive]

[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

[papenathys]

"It is an odd dichotomy we have set for ourselves, between loving people and loving land. We know that loving a person has agency and power—we know it can change everything. Yet we act as if loving the land is an internal affair that has no energy outside the confines of our head and heart. On the high prairie at Cascade Head another truth is revealed, the active force of love for land is made visible. Here the ritual burning of the headland cemented the people’s connection to salmon, to each other, and to the spirit world, but it also created biodiversity. The ceremonial fires converted forests to fingers of seaside prairie, islands of open habitat in a matrix of fog-dark trees.

Likewise, the First Salmon Ceremony... [and] the feasts of love and gratitude were not just internal emotional expressions but actually aided the upstream passage of the fish by releasing them from predation for a critical time. Laying salmon bones back in the streams returned nutrients to the system. These are ceremonies of practical reverence. The burning beacon is a beautiful poem, but it is a poem written physically, deeply on the land.

People loved the salmon the way fire loves grass and the blaze loves the darkness of the sea.

Today we only write it on postcards (“Terrific view from Cascade Head—wish you were here”) and grocery lists ( “Pick up salmon, 1½ pounds”)."

- Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, 2013

[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

[racerback-parallels]

okay i know i'm not a comics expert but this strikes me as such a bizarre characterization of clark. like. you can't do more because you're not from here? what? do you also think that people who are adopted from overseas shouldn't have citizenship? and you're not even gonna talk about abuse of superpowers? what are we doing

[aquiescentmoon]

HOW COULD I LOVE YOU ANY MORE THAN I ALREADY DO?

The sea to the surge of dead sea turtles on the shore.

[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)

[uumuii]

The solutions are already here: tactics for ecological revolution from below | Peter Gelderloos

[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

[chloe-creating]

a poem on the end

the doomsday clock is at

89 seconds to midnight.

i am feeding my dog & making jelly toast.

printing out my georgeaphy syllabus.

because until the world really ends,

these things need to be done.

i wonder if this is how my story ends.

no character arc after the struggle.

no perfect kiss after a life of longing.

one second: making jelly toast

and the next secon

[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