The Future We Choose Quotes
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“Denying climate change is tantamount to saying you don't believe in gravity. The science of climate change is not a belief, a religion, or a political ideology. It presents the facts that are measurable and verifiable. Just as gravity exerts its force on all of us, whether we believe in it or not, climate change is already affecting us all no matter where we were born or where we live.”
― The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis
― The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis
“We can no longer afford to assume that addressing climate change is the sole responsibility of national or local governments, or corporations or individuals. This is an everyone-everywhere mission in which we all must individually and collectively assume responsibility.”
― The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis
― The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis
“Three centuries ago Jonathan Swift wrote, “Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it.”21 How prophetic this turned out to be. A recent analysis by MIT shows that on Twitter lies spread on average six times faster than truth, and that truth never reaches the same level of penetration.22 Social media is an engine for the production and dissemination of lies.”
― The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis
― The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis
“History has shown that when approximately 3.5 percent of the population participates in nonviolent protest, success becomes inevitable.102 No nonviolent protest has ever failed to achieve its aims once it reached that threshold of participation. In the UK, this would be 2.3 million people. In the United States, 11 million.”
― The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis
― The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis
“The planet will survive, in changed form no doubt, but it will survive. The question is whether we will be here to witness it.”
― The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis
― The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis
“For change to become transformational, our change in mindset must manifest in our actions.”
― The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis
― The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis
“Consumerism traps us into thinking we can purchase personality.”
― The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis
― The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis
“the fashion industry has an enormous carbon footprint. Textile production is second only to the oil industry for pollution. It adds more greenhouse gases to our atmosphere than all international flights and maritime shipping combined. Estimates suggest that the fashion industry is responsible for a whopping 10 percent of global CO2 emissions,26 and as we increase our consumption of fast fashion, the related emissions are set to grow rapidly.”
― The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis
― The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis
“Anger that sinks into despair is powerless to make a change. Anger that evolves into conviction is unstoppable.”
― The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis
― The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis
“All too often in the face of a task, we move quickly to “doing” without first reflecting on “being”—what we personally bring to the task, as well as what others might. And the most important thing we can bring is our state of mind.”
― The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis
― The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis
“Stubborn optimism needs to motivate you daily; you always need to bear in mind why you feel the future is worth fighting for.”
― The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis
― The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis
“have practically disappeared from our diets.12 But the plant-based replacements are so good that most of us don’t notice the absence of meat and dairy. Most young children cannot believe we used to kill any animals for food.”
― The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis
― The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis
“Textile production is second only to the oil industry for pollution. It adds more greenhouse gases to our atmosphere than all international flights and maritime shipping combined.”
― The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis
― The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis
“Melting permafrost is also releasing ancient microbes that today’s humans have never been exposed to—and as a result have no resistance”
― The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis
― The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis
“With our support, regeneration can become the predominant direction of the future evolution of this planet.”
― The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis
― The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis
“The days of valuing how quickly we can dig stuff up and turn it into trash have to come to an end, not as a matter of ideology or policy but but as a a matter of survival.”
― The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis
― The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis
“We tend to cling to what we know and resist what is new—even when the new brings tremendous benefits. Opposition to onshore wind turbines in the UK is a good example. Even though onshore wind is now the cheapest form of energy6 (cheaper than coal, oil, gas, and other renewable sources), rural landowners have significantly resisted it, keen to preserve the appearance of the countryside. When the Conservative Party (which derives much of its support from these rural communities) came to power in 2015, it slashed subsidies and changed planning laws for onshore wind—leading to an 80 percent reduction in new capacity.7 Only now, with climate change awareness rapidly rising among the UK public, is support for onshore wind starting to outweigh an attachment to yesterday’s aesthetics.”
― The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis
― The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis
“If democracy is to survive and thrive into the twenty-first century, climate change is the one big test that it cannot fail.”
― The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis
― The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis
“Fair allocation of the remaining atmospheric space has proven to be a futile exercise no matter the formula. A fair outcome is not viable as long as we pursue it from a mindset of scarcity and competition.
The state of the planet no longer allows for this mindset because we have reached existential scarcity: limits to the survival of many of the ecosystems that sustain us and that help to maintain safe greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere. If the Amazon is destroyed, carbon emissions will rise so high that the entire planet, not only Brazil, will suffer the consequences. Likewise, if the Arctic permafrost thaws, not only will the countries surrounding the North Pole suffer, but so will the whole Earth. We are all in the same boat. A hole at one end of the boat does not mean that only the occupants sitting there will drown. We all win or lose together.”
― The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis
The state of the planet no longer allows for this mindset because we have reached existential scarcity: limits to the survival of many of the ecosystems that sustain us and that help to maintain safe greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere. If the Amazon is destroyed, carbon emissions will rise so high that the entire planet, not only Brazil, will suffer the consequences. Likewise, if the Arctic permafrost thaws, not only will the countries surrounding the North Pole suffer, but so will the whole Earth. We are all in the same boat. A hole at one end of the boat does not mean that only the occupants sitting there will drown. We all win or lose together.”
― The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis
“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.”
― The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis
― The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis
“As we worked to rebuild and care for our environment, it was only natural that we also turned to each other with greater care and concern. We realised that the perpetuation of our species was about far more than saving ourselves from extreme weather. It was about being good stewards of the land and of one another. When we began the fight for the fate of humanity, we were thinking only about the species’ survival but, at some point, we understood that it was as much about the fate of our humanity. We emerged from the climate crisis as more mature members of the community of life, capable of not only restoring ecosystems but also of unfolding our dormant potentials of human strength and discernment. Humanity was only ever as doomed as it believed itself to be. Vanquishing that belief was our true legacy.”
― The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis
― The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis
“If you have the option of voting with your money, make more educated decisions about the products you do need to buy. Buy”
― The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis
― The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis
“You don't need to have all the answers, and you certainly don't need to hide from the truth, nor should you.”
― The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis
― The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis
“You have to be willing to risk mistakes, delays, and disappointments, or you will be at the mercy of only the tried and true, to your own ultimate peril.”
― The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis
― The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis
“focus, and you will”
― The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis
― The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis
“It is in the interest of every country to bring all its resources to bear on problems across the world.”
― The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis
― The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis
“Our economy is based on the belief that we can extract resources boundlessly, use them inefficiently, and discard them wantonly, drawing from the planet more than it can regenerate and polluting more than we can clean up.”
― The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis
― The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis
“Climate deniers are shamelessly protecting the short-term financial interests of the fossil fuel industry to the detriment of the long-term interests of their own descendants.”
― The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis
― The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis
“Industrial agriculture and the food industry, which often prioritize profitable food over nutritious food, are almost as big a driver of climate change as fossil fuels. Yet much of the food produced is never eaten. It doesn’t even necessarily get to the people who need it. In the Global South, a lack of roads and storage facilities means that food often rots before it gets to people, and even if it does reach them in time, they might not have the money to buy it. In the Global North, food languishes in home and store refrigerators until well past its use-by date, or it is left uneaten on the plate at the end of a meal and then thrown away. Such waste then drives greater food production.”
― The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis
― The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis
“To have at least a 50 percent chance of success (which in itself is an unacceptably high level of risk), we must cut global emissions to half their current levels by 2030, half again by 2040, and finally to net zero by 2050 at the very latest.”
― The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis
― The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis