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Anything else you're interested in is not going to happen if you can't breathe the air and drink the water. Don't sit this one out. Do something. You are by accident of fate alive at an absolutely critical moment in the history of our planet.
- Carl Sagan

In reality, climate change is actually the biggest thing that's going on every single day.
- Bill McKibben

The fundamental challenge of the 21st century is climate change...
The real social and psychological challenge that underlies confronting climate change is this issue of can you open your heart and have the feeling of solidarity and togetherness with people from all around the world? Including people, you haven't met yet and feel that you're in this together and not to just try to fortify your own little enclave and hope for the best within your own little fortified enclave. That is the fundamental thing we have to get along together and be together in this world. Which is becoming much more dangerous. If we're doing that and we're getting along and we're being together we can then be very aggressive in doing things like slashing carbon emissions and building a different kind of lifestyle which is low carbon and fun and just.
- Hot& Bothered/Dissent Podcast:What Does Climate Migration Really Look Like

I think calling it climate change is rather limiting. I would rather call it the everything change.
- Margaret Atwood

A state of half-ignorance and half-indifference is a much more pervasive climate sickness than true denial or true fatalism.
- The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace Wells

We look but tell ourselves that all we can do is focus on ourselves. Meditate and shop at farmer’s markets and stop driving - but forget trying to actually change the systems that are making the crisis inevitable because that’s too much “bad energy” and that will never work. And at first it may appear as if we are looking, because many of these lifestyle changes are indeed part of the solution, but still we have one eye tightly shut.

Or maybe we do look - really look - but then, inevitably, we seem to forget. Remember and then forget again. Climate change is like that; it’s hard to keep it in your head for very long. We engage this odd form of on-again-off-again ecological amnesia for perfectly rational reasons. We deny because we fear that letting in the full reality of this crisis will change everything. And we are right.
- This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate by Naomi Klein

Why are we not reducing our emissions? Why are they in fact still increasing? Are we knowingly causing a mass extinction? Are we evil? No, of course not. People keep doing what they do because the vast majority doesn’t have a clue about the actual consequences of our everyday life, and they don’t know that rapid change is required. We all think we know, and we all think everybody knows, but we don’t. Because how could we? If there really was a crisis, and if this crisis was caused by our emissions, you would at least see some signs. Not just flooded cities, tens of thousands of dead people, and whole nations leveled to piles of torn down buildings. You would see some restrictions. But no. And no one talks about it. There are no emergency meetings, no headlines, no breaking news. No one is acting as if we were in a crisis. Even most climate scientists or green politicians keep on flying around the world, eating meat and dairy.
- Greta Thunberg

Once you've grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you've inherited, you don't even notice it any longer.
- Brian Eno

Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth... these are one and the same fight. We must connect the dots between climate change, water scarcity, energy shortages, global health, food security and women's empowerment. Solutions to one problem must be solutions for all.
- Ban Ki-moon

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.
- Al Gore

We are entering an era of heightened disaster, thanks to climate change. Being prepared for disaster will mean being prepared to sift truth from rumour, and being prepared to adjust our worldview.
- Rebecca Solnit

A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.
- Margret Atwood

We can't leave everything to the free market. In fact, climate change is, I would argue, the greatest single free-market failure. This is what happens when you don't regulate corporations and you allow them to treat the atmosphere as an open sewer.
- Naomi Klein

Don’t judge me by my words which are many, or my actions which are few, because if we wait for the meek to inherit the earth there won’t be anything left.
- Robert Hunter

A heart that's full up like a landfill
A job that slowly kills you
Bruises that won't heal
You look so tired, unhappy
Bring down the government
They don't, they don't speak for us
I'll take a quiet life
A handshake of carbon monoxide
With no alarms and no surprises
- No Surprises by Radiohead