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Climate optimism of the will

“Eradicate the optimist who takes the easy view that human values will persist no matter what we [...]

By cCc|2022-07-19T23:06:34-04:00July 20, 2022|Categories: Climate Emergency, Hope, Solutions|Tags: Noah Smith, noahpinion.substack.com, Urgency|0 Comments

tell our own stories…

“Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive [...]

By cCc|2022-07-23T05:08:07-04:00July 17, 2022|Categories: Biodiversity, Hope, Quote|Tags: Arundhati Roy|Comments Off

Climate Emergency and Hope

I am hoping this note might be suitable for those who feel they lack imagination and hope. [...]

By cCc|2022-07-11T07:06:00-04:00July 10, 2022|Categories: Climate Emergency, Hope|Tags: personal thoughts|0 Comments

6 ways to build resilience and hope into young people’s learning about climate change

As they become more exposed to the grim realities of climate change, today’s teens and people in [...]

By cCc|2022-07-25T22:47:19-04:00April 21, 2022|Categories: Hope, Solutions, Youth|Tags: theconversation.com, Urgency|0 Comments

Now Is Not the Time To Give in to Climate Fatalism

By Susan Joy Hassol and Michael E. Mann | April 12, 2022 3:05 PM EDT | Hassol [...]

By cCc|2022-04-14T19:23:15-04:00April 17, 2022|Categories: Climate Emergency, Hope, Humanity|Tags: Dr. Michael E. Mann, Susan Joy Hassol, Urgency|0 Comments

Environmental headlines can be bleak, but good news is out there, too.

Peter Dykstra: We could all use some good news right now The environmental beat can be a [...]

By cCc|2022-04-11T04:54:36-04:00April 11, 2022|Categories: Climate Emergency, Hope, News & Information|Tags: ehn.org/, Peter Dykstra, Urgency|0 Comments

Join Us To Reflect & Celebrate! A New Era In New York!

Subject: Can you come? Dear Friends, I'm attending an Empire State Indivisible virtual event called "A New [...]

By cCc|2021-08-17T06:17:38-04:00August 17, 2021|Categories: Climate Action, Events to Attend, Hope|Tags: actionnetwork.org, Empire State Indivisible, New York, Urgency|Comments Off

Green Is The New Black

Hello, Nice To Meet You! Are you ready to wake up? Our goal is to create a [...]

By cCc|2022-07-24T20:16:37-04:00July 19, 2021|Categories: Community, Hope, Solutions|Tags: Green Warriors, greenisthenewblack.com, Urgency|Comments Off

How Returning Lands to Native Tribes Is Helping Protect Nature

From California to Maine, land is being given back to Native American tribes who are committing to [...]

By cCc|2022-07-24T20:15:29-04:00July 19, 2021|Categories: Enviornmental Justice, Hope, Solutions|Tags: e360.yale.edu, Urgency|Comments Off

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Maxine Hong Kingston
“In a time of destruction, create something.”
David Suzuki
“If we pollute the air, water and soil that keep us alive and well, and destroy the biodiversity that allows natural systems to function, no amount of money will save us.”
Christian de Duve
“The cost of our success is the exhaustion of natural resources, leading to energy crises, climate change, pollution, and the destruction of our habitat. If you exhaust natural resources, there will be nothing left for your children. If we continue in the same direction, humankind is headed for some frightful ordeals, if not extinction.”
Frances Beinecke
“I have long understood that climate change is not only an environmental issue – it is a humanitarian, economic, health, and justice issue as well.”
Al Gore
“As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future, but the exceptions can kill you, and climate change is one of those exceptions.”
Barack Obama
“The shift to a cleaner energy economy won’t happen overnight, and it will require tough choices along the way.”
Ban Ki-moon
“Climate change is destroying our path to sustainability. Ours is a world of looming challenges and increasingly limited resources. Sustainable development offers the best chance to adjust our course”.
Juan Manuel Santos
“Anybody who doesn’t see the impact of climate change is really, and I would say, myopic. They don’t see the reality. It’s so evident that we are destroying Mother Earth. This is not the problem of one country or a few countries: it is the problem of mankind. We need to work together to stop this. Otherwise, our future generations will simply disappear.”
Yuval Noah Harari
“We are all living together on a single planet, which is threatened by our own actions. And if you don’t have some kind of global cooperation, nationalism is just not on the right level to tackle the problems, whether it’s climate change or whether it’s technological disruption.”
Ban Ki-moon
“The clear and present danger of climate change means we cannot burn our way to prosperity. We already rely too heavily on fossil fuels and we need to find a new, sustainable path to the future we want. We need a clean industrial revolution.”
Sir Nicholas Stern
“Climate change is a result of the greatest market failure the world has seen We risk damages on a scale larger than the two world wars of the last century.”
Noam Chomsky
“The general population doesn’t know what’s happening, and it doesn’t even know that it doesn’t know.”
Terri Swearingen
“We are living on this planet as if we had another one to go to.”
David King
“Climate change is the most severe problem that we are facing today, more serious even than the threat of terrorism.”
Marco Lambertini
“A planet being pushed to the edge will eventually turn on us.”
Paul Krugman
“The planet will continue to cook.”
Aldo Leopold
“The hope of the future lies not in curbing the influence of human occupancy – it is already too late for that – but in creating a better understanding of the extent of that influence and a new ethic for its governance.”
Wallace Broecker
“The paleoclimate record shouts to us that, far from being self-stabilizing, the Earth's climate system is an ornery beast which overreacts even to small nudges.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger
“The facts are there that we have created, man has, a self-inflicted wound that man has created through global warming.”
Al Gore
“We are running out of time, and we must have a planetary solution to a planetary crisis.”