59 Quotes About Climate-crisis

Humanity cannot keep expanding in numbers and relentless destruction and still expect everything to be ‘ok’. We moved far beyond ‘ok’ a very long time ago, the world is in crisis because of us. To believe otherwise is dangerous and delusional. In this finite world we have only two choices - to change ourselves to fit within it or die out.

We learn the same lesson over and over again: in highly unequal societies, with deep injustices reliably tracing racial fault lines, disasters don't bring us all together in one fuzzy human family. They take preexisting divides and deepen them further, so the people who were already getting most screwed over before the disaster get extra doses of pain during and after.

Right now, humanity as a species needs to develop myths that support the development of maturity, wisdom and agency to face into causes and effects of climate disruption and ecological collapse. Without this, our lives and planet will become wastelands, literally and metaphorically.

Changing consciousness wakes us up not only to our world and its complexities, but to the complexity of ourselves. there is a lot more in all of us than one identity, one viewpoint or one life. Just as the climate crisis alerts us to what has been ignored, forgotten and marginalised in the world, it can also wake us up to forms of knowing that have been buried within ourselves, such as nature relatedness, body awareness, intuitive knowings and spiritual connections.

The biggest threats to humankind today are climate change, fake news, anti-intellectualism and Donald Trump.

We can pretend that extending the status quo into the future, unchanged, is one of the options available to us. But that is a fantasy. Change is coming one way or another. Our choice is whether we try to shape that change to the maximum benefit of all or wait passively as the forces of climate disaster, scarcity, and fear of the "other" fundamentally reshape us.

To quote Sarah Connor: ‘You’re all dead already.’ You, your friends, your customers—all of you. You poisoned your own planet, destroyed its climate, defiled its ecosystem, and killed off all of its biodiversity.” He pointed at each of us. “You’re going to be extinct soon, too, by your hands. And you know it. That’s why most of you spend every second you can wired up to the OASIS. You’ve already given up, and now you’re all just waiting around to die.

The greatest gift this generation can give future generations is a HEALTHY PLANET.

To put it in more shocking terms, it doesn't matter if the skeptics are right or not, because the assumptions on which the debate is based are already enough to doom us to a dystopian future.