Climate Activist

"In any disagreement between what we want to be true and what is true, physical reality wins every time."

🇺🇸Michael E. Mann

Education

b. 1965

"...If we fail to act to bring down our carbon emissions over the next decade, this will lock in disastrous melting of the ice sheets, sea level rise, and a rise in devastating weather extremes down the road."

🇨🇦Naomi Klein

Entertainment

climate justice

b. 1970

"Job creation as part of the corporate mission, particularly the creation of fll time, decently paid, stable jobs, appears to have taken a back seat in many major corporations, regardless of company profits"

🇨🇦Severn Cullis-Suzuki

Social Activism

environmentalism

b. 1979

"If you don’t know how to fix it, please, stop breaking it."

🇺🇸Joy Harjo

Literature

b. 1951

"Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture – Harjo, Joy"

🇺🇸Alice Walker

Literature

b. 1944

"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any."

🇺🇸Steven Chu

Science

b. 1948

"I called my mother up when they announced the Nobel Prize, waiting until 7 in the morning. She said, “That’s nice — and when are you going to see me next?"

🇺🇸Eric Garcetti

Politics

b. 1971

"I think I was just being myself for a moment there...Look, I think people should be kind of light about this. It's something that plenty of people have heard in their lives for sure."

🇬🇧Tristram Stuart

Literature

b. 1977

"Food redistribution is one of the best win-win solutions for food waste avoidance. Food companies can often save money by donating food rather than paying the £80 or so per tonne in landfill tax and disposal costs."

"The more thorough the understanding needed, the further back in time one must go."

🇺🇸Kate Marvel

Science

b. 2000

"I started my career as an astrophysicist, and then I realized that nowhere else in the universe is as good as here, right? This is the best planet."

🇺🇸Alexandria Villaseñor

Social Activism

environmentalism

b. 2005

"Eighty years from now, our grandchildren can yell, 'Hey Zoomers."

🇺🇸Favianna Rodriguez

Art

b. 1978

"I think that all art is political. I think that art is always an expression of a human experience, and I very much believe that the arts are central to our society…"

🇬🇧John Kerry

Politics

b. 1943

"Yesterday I was in President Bush's home state of Texas. He no longer lives there. Now he lives in the state of denial."

🇬🇧George Monbiot

Literature

veganism

b. 1963

"Economic growth is the aggregate effect of the quest to accumulate capital and extract profit. Capitalism collapses without growth, yet perpetual growth on a finite planet leads inexorably to environmental calamity."

🇦🇺Tim Flannery

Science

b. 1956

"Some time this century, the day will arrive when the human influence on the climate will overwhelm all natural factors."

🇳🇱Jesse Klaver

Politics

b. 1986

"Those who are fleeing war and violence are entitled to protection and shelter. We want to govern, but not at any price. We want to create change. And to always continue seeing the people behind the policy."

🇺🇸Al Gore

Politics

b. 1948

"The democratization of knowledge by the print medium brought the Enlightenment. Now, broadband interconnection is supporting decentralized processes that reinvigorate democracy."

🇬🇧David Suzuki

Education

b. 1936

"f one day I look out from my cabin's porch and see a row of windmills spinning in the distance, I won't curse them. I will praise them. It will mean we are finally getting somewhere."