# Climate action

Climate action (or climate change action) refers to a range of activities, mechanisms, policy instruments and so forth that aim to reduce the severity of human induced climate change and its impacts. "More climate action" is a central demand of the climate movement. Climate inaction is the absence of climate action.

## Quotes

* Most people are engaged in building up their community as a defense. We don’t see that as activism. We see that as a necessary way to exist.
** Kobina Jerry Amokwandoh, claimant. Radical “Climate Action: From Hunger Strikes to Lawsuits to Community Care”, ‘’Teen Vogue’’, (3 March, 2022).
* Right now we are facing a man-made disaster of global scale, our greatest threat in thousands of years: climate change. If we don’t take action, the collapse of our civilisations and the extinction of much of the natural world is on the horizon.
** David Attenborough, British natural history filmmaker and writer. “David Attenborough: collapse of civilisation is on the horizon”, ‘’The Guardian’’, (3 December 2018).
* When we look at the rising ocean temperatures, rising carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, and so on, we know that they are climbing far more steeply than can be accounted for by the natural oscillation of the weather … What people (must) do is to change their behavior and their attitudes … for our upcoming generation we have to do something, and we have to demand for government support.
** David Attenborough, British natural history filmmaker and writer. “Attenborough: Climate is changing”, ‘’BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) News’’, (24 May 2006).
* Just knowing what’s right, or healthy, or environmentally friendly isn’t really a sufficient model for changing behaviors.
** Magnus Bergquist, Senior Lecturer Department of Psychology, University of Gothenburg. “What makes people act on climate change, according to behavioral science?“ ‘’Scientific American’’, (21 March, 2023).
* The fact that your neighbor can look at your solar panels and ask you questions has more impact than just listening to experts on TV.
** Brooke Betts, VP U.S. Climate Campaign, Rare, no title, from Twitter, (19 April, 2023).
* Climate messages are most impactful when they resonate with and affirm a person’s underlying values and identities.
* There’s a psychological phenomenon called ‘reactance,’ that means when people believe that their choices are being limited or they’re going to have to engage in costly behaviors, they’re likely to push back against that and the message can backfire.
** Toby Bolsen, associate professor of political science at Georgia State University. “Breaking Through the Noise”, ‘’Georgia State University Research Magazine’’, (2022).
* In an integrated system, all of the products of an interaction can cycle locally. Food scraps from the table can feed the chickens. Chicken waste can feed the worms. Worms can feed the chickens. Worm castings can provide the nutrients for vegetables. Vegetable trimmings can feed the chickens. The chickens, eggs and vegetables can feed the people producing the table scraps.
** David Braden, Living Systems Institute Executive Director. “Growing Our Own: More Than A Lifestyle Choice”, ‘’Living Systems Institute’’, (10 May, 2021).
* Freed from the ‘tyranny of the two-by-four and four-by-eight,’...we can build a house out of anything.
** Bruce, Heidi (10 May 2024), "[yesmagazine.org/issue/home/2012/05/10/6-ideas-for-sensible-homes 6 Ideas for Sensible Homes]", Yes! Magazine
* It seems highly likely to me that climate change poses a major problem for the planet. I say “highly likely” rather than “certain” because I have no scientific aptitude and remember well the dire predictions of most “experts” about Y2K. It would be foolish, however, for me or anyone to demand 100% proof of huge forthcoming damage to the world if that outcome seemed at all possible and if prompt action had even a small chance of thwarting the danger.
** Warren Buffett, American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist. “2016 annual letter to Berkshire Hathaway stockholders”, (27 February, 2016).
* There’s a lot of knowledge built up in experience, and there’s a lot of energy that’s stored in young people....When you put those two together, you have … an excellent recipe for potential success
** Robert Bullard, Professor of urban planning and environmental policy at Texas Southern University. “The Power of Inclusive, Intergenerational Climate Activism”, ‘’Yes! Magazine’’, (21 September, 2020).
* Global warming causing climate change may be the ultimate issue that unites us all.
** Louise Burfitt-Dons, Humanitarian Campaigner, in a speech at the Institute of Physics, London, (June 2008).
* The single biggest thing that an individual can do to combat climate change is to stop eating animals. Because of the huge, huge carbon footprint of animal agriculture. I was shocked to find out that animal agriculture directly or indirectly accounts for 14.5% of all greenhouse gas emissions, compared to all transportation – every ship, car, truck, plane on the planet only accounts for 13%. Less than animal agriculture. So most people think that buying a Prius is the answer, and it’s certainly not wrong, but it’s not the biggest agent of climate change.
** James Cameron, Canadian filmmaker. James Cameron on How to Find Flight MH370, “Climate Change, Leonardo DiCaprio, and More”, ‘’The Daily Beast’’, (12 April 2014).
* People always use palm oil, it’s everywhere, but because of shareholder advocacy and proxy voting, investors were able to make sure there was less deforestation in Southeast Asia.
** Marguerita Cheng, CEO of Blue Ocean Global Wealth in Gaithersburg, Maryland. “What Is Sustainable Investing?”, ‘’NerdWallet’’, (17 March, 2023).
* It’s important to both educate and empower children. Educate them, because they need to know what’s going on. This is their world and they need to be prepared for it.
** Kottie Christie-Blick, elementary school teacher and climate change educational consultant. [https://climate.mit.edu/posts/kids-against-climate-change-interview-kottie-christie-blick “Kids Against Climate Change: An Interview with Kottie Christie-Blick
Listen with Speechify”[, ‘’MIT Climate Portal’', (22 January, 2018).
* In any given neighborhood, there is a huge collection of things that are owned by individuals but could become shared resources. In a single community of fifty homes, there might be close to fifty complete sets of home tools, car seats for newborns and toddlers, toys for every stage of child development, cookbooks, plumbing snakes, clothing of every size and color, furniture, old monitors, camping gear, and so on.
** Rockefelle, Rebecca (8 February 2024), "An Economy Built on Sharing", Yes! Magazine
* ...most people find it easier to think about their own health than that of the planet, so emphasising the health benefits of low-carbon activities like cycling instead of driving, or insulating draughty homes, might be a better way to go.
* Avoiding wastefulness in energy use, improving health outcomes, conserving green spaces and forests, creating a sense of pride in rebuilding the Great British energy system, and fostering a sense of responsibility to future generations are ways of talking about climate change that are more likely to resonate than guilt-laden messages about self-sacrifice.
** Adam Corner, Research Director for Climate Outreach. “Banning straws isn’t enough – we must get serious about climate change”, ‘’Climate Outreach’’, (23 October, 2018).
* Fashion companies should be encouraging their customers to engage themselves in the circular economy, a process that would entail taking one’s old garments back to the retailer to be recycled into new garments.
** Mauro Cozzi, CEO of Emitwise, “Sustainability in Fashion: An Interview With Mauro Cozzi”, ‘’Earth.org’’, (1 March, 2023).
* Scientists say solar panels lower peak demand on stressed traditional grids and have reduced the amount of infrastructure dollars that energy utilities must invest. By hooking your solar panels to the grid, you’re sneakily a hands-on investor in your local utilities.
** Delbert, Caroline (11 February 2024), "Your Neighbor's Solar Panels Are Secretly Saving You Money", Popular Mechanics
* We dismantled a building on the ETH campus, the material of which was to be disposed of afterwards. It was the students who urged to keep the components. Without their pressure, this would not have been possible. The young generation holds us accountable for our actions.
** Catherine De Wolf, Assistant Professor of the Chair of Circular Engineering for Architecture at the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering at ETH Zurich. Circular Building the Easy Way, ‘’World-Architects.com’’, (8 February, 2023).
* ...as we start to realize that the world that we live in isn’t sustainable, and that corporations will stop making money if we lose the planet, then that funding is going to start showing up.
** Matt Ellis-Ramirez, Sunrise Movement volunteer. “‘No point in anything else’: Gen Z members flock to climate careers”, (6 September, 2021).
* Not only do we get to reduce our waste, but we also find ways to be creative, active, and involved.
** Engels, Jonathan (24 March 2024), "Seven Reasons Why Reusing and Repurposing is Better than Recycling", One Green Planet, retrieved on 22 July, 2023
* Overall, the (new) paper is one more twig in the bundle of concerns that low-lying coastal cities, and especially Pacific islands, are highly vulnerable to this problem of sea-level rise, [sic] these Pacific islands have contributed almost nothing to the problem of global warming.
** Charles Fletcher, geologist at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. “Hawaii to suffer most as global sea levels rise, study says”, ‘’NBC (National Broadcasting Company) News’’, (21 February 2013).
* I know myself to be more helpful when I have addressed my own needs: needs for good food and good company, for hope, for long afternoons in the sunshine… I know that hope is not a happy accident. Hope is a right we must protect.
** Florsheim, Morgan (15 June 2024), "[“https://www.yesmagazine.org/opinion/2021/06/15/climate-despair-hope Don’t Tell Me to Despair About the Climate: Hope Is a Right We Must Protect]", Yes! Magazine, retrieved on 22 July, 2023
* Choosing to eat fewer animal products is probably the most important action an individual can take to reverse global warming—it has a known and significant effect on the environment, and, done collectively, would push the culture and the marketplace with more force than any march.
** Jonathan Safran Foer, author. We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast’’, (2019) 150.
* What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
** Jane Goodall, English primatologist and anthropologist. “Five Biodiversity Lessons from Dr Jane Goodall”, ‘’The Future Forest Company’’, (3 April 2023).
* We have enough clothing on the planet right now to clothe the next six generations of the human race: we have to find ways of using what we’ve got.
** Patrick Grant, Director of Tailors Norton & Sons. “Great British Sewing Bee Series 6 Episode 6 – Reduce, Reuse, Recycle”, (27 May, 2020)
* Driving an electric car a mile costs you 2 or 3 cents; driving a gas car a mile costs you 20 cents. Having a hot shower with an electric heat pump costs you 20 cents; having a hot shower with gas costs you 60 cents.
** [[Saul Griffith, author and chief scientist of Rewiring America. “Why we need to ‘electrify everything’ according to Saul Griffith”, ‘’Washington Post’’, (17 March, 2022).
* Those jobs would have a multiplying effect, as the woman who gets a good job as a solar installer is going to spend money in her local community.
* Australia ran a certification and training program for building a workforce that also certified the installers as inspectors. This made the process of purchasing and installing solar in Australia simple and doable in a matter of days.
** Saul Griffith, author and chief scientist of Rewiring America. “From Homes to Cars, It’s Now Time to Electrify Everything”, ‘’Yale Environment 360’’, (19 October, 2021).
* Driving an electric car a mile costs you 2 or 3 cents; driving a gas car a mile costs you 20 cents. Having a hot shower with an electric heat pump costs you 20 cents; having a hot shower with gas costs you 60 cents.
** Saul Griffith, author and chief scientist of Rewiring America. Why we need to ‘electrify everything’ according to Saul Griffith, ‘’Washington Post’’, (17 March, 2022).
* Our way of walking on the Earth has a great influence on animals and plants. We have killed so many animals and plants and destroyed their environments. Many are now extinct. In turn, our environment is now harming us. We are like sleepwalkers, not knowing what we are doing or where we are heading. Whether we can wake up or not depends on whether we can walk mindfully on our Mother Earth. The future of all life, including our own, depends on our mindful steps.
** Thích Nhất Hạnh, Vietnamese Buddhist monk, peace activist, and author. “The World We Have: A Buddhist Approach to Peace and Ecology”, (2008) Ch. 1 : The Bells of Mindfulness, p. 3. Source: https://quotepark.com/quotes/1921057-thich-nhat-hanh-we-are-like-sleepwalkers-not-knowing-what-we-are/
* Eager student volunteers from Frederick Douglass [Academy High School]...helped with mowing, preparing the soil, and [built] the initial 30 garden beds—which grew to 58 the second year.
** Harrison, Jordyn (1 February 2024), "Growing Community in Vacant Chicago Lots", Yes! Magazine
* Those who know someone who has stopped flying because of climate change are more likely to curtail their own flying—and the effect is increased if it’s a high-profile person that’s stopped flying.
** Susan Joy Hassol, director of Climate Communication. “What Makes People Act on Climate Change, according to Behavioral Science”, ‘’Scientific American’’, (4/19/2023).
* I begin with the values that I share with whomever I am talking to....something as simple as wondering where our water will be coming from in 20 years; worrying about the local economy; caring for our children; or our desire to live out the faith that is central to who we are.
** Katherine Hayhoe, climate and behavior change scientist. “The science of persuasive climate communication”, ICF (Inner City Fund)’', (30 September, 2014).
* ...before shopping for fancy zero-waste reusable items you’ve seen on Instagram, look around the house to see what items you can repurpose or upcycle to help you reduce your waste.
** Hirsch, Sophie (20 August 2024), "How to Fight the Climate Crisis at Home: Small Tips for Making Big Change", Green Matters
* Members of Congress are more open to listening to POW athletes because we’re on the front lines of climate change.
** Elena Hight, Snowboarder and Protect Our Winters (POW) representative. “The GSB Interview: Elena Hight; Snowboarder, Filmmaker, Climate Change Fighter”, ‘’Green Sport Alliance’’, (26 August, 2019).
* Libraries of Things are rolling together all the things people only infrequently need and bringing them together in one place, so they have something for everyone. Pay one membership or subscription fee, and you can borrow everything from camping gear to a popcorn maker.
** Gene Homicki, Co-Founder and CEO of myTurn. “How to start a Library of Things”, ‘’Shareable’’, (16 December, 2021).
* ...we’ve got to get the building trades organizations, the construction trades, and the oil workers. These are the people who need to be brought on board in terms of climate.
* If we want labor to be effective in terms of fighting global warming, we’ve got to have laws that are gonna strengthen labor unions.
* We need energy and activism on the part of the working people to put pressure on Congress and on those legislators who are not cooperating.
** Dolores Huerta, labor rights activist. “Workers Must Unite to Take on Climate”,’’Atmos’’, (17 January, 2022).
* Since I aligned my actions with my values, I have witnessed more of my loved ones giving up flights and opting out of fast lifestyles as well.
** Rachel Powell Horne, author. Being the Change: Living sustainably can serve as quiet persuasion for those who may be turned off by scolding and hypocrisy, ‘’Yes! Magazine’’, (26 February, 2022).
* Dining from your garden costs you less, saves energy, and helps us all breathe a little easier.
** Hummel, Emily (15 April 2024), "Five Eco-Friendly Benefits Of Community Gardens", The Environmental Magazine
* Each of the last three decades has been successively warmer at the Earth’s surface than any preceding decade since 1850.
** "IPCC Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis".
* I do think that climate change is occurring, that it is man-caused. One of the proposals that I think is a very libertarian proposal, and I'm just open to this, is taxing carbon emission that may have the result of being self-regulating. ... The market will take care of it. I mean, when you look at it from the standpoint of better results, and actually less money to achieve those results, that's what is being professed by a carbon tax.
** Gary Johnson, American entrepreneur and the 29th Governor of New Mexico. “Libertarian Gary Johnson on 2016: ‘This is the demise of the Republican Party’”, ‘’Consumer News and Business Channel’’, (22 August 2016).
* The reality is, no politician has ever lost an election due to their stance on climate. It's why we do not see real, meaningful climate action.
** Jeremy Jones, snowboarder and founder and CEO of POW (Protect Our Winters). “Q&A: Jeremy Jones on Climate Deniers & Founding the Nonprofit POW (Protect Our Winters)” (16 September, 2020).
* In Cambodia, 40 women are growing and selling crickets as an alternative food source, earning $2,600 for the first tonne of cricket farmed.
** Srilata Kammila, Head of Climate Change Adaptation, UNDP. “Adaptation is local in nature”, ‘’United Nations Development Programme’’, (20 April, 2023).
* Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'
** Martin Luther King, American Baptist minister, civil rights activist, and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize of 1964. ** As quoted in The Words of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Coretta Scott King, Second Edition (2011), Ch. "Community of Man", p. 3.
* The resources required to rapidly move away from fossil fuels and prepare for the coming heavy weather could pull huge swaths of humanity out of poverty, providing services now sorely lacking, from clean water to electricity....
** Naomi Klein, Canadian author, social activist. This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate, Introduction, (2014).
* The greenest energy to use is the energy we don’t use at all.
** Katrin Klingenberg, Executive Director of Passive House Institute US, Inc. “Passive House: Interview with Katrin Klingenberg, executive director of PHIUS (Passive House Institute US, Inc.)”, ‘’Green Gnome Home’’, (30 December, 2012).
* If only 16% of students receive an adequate education about climate change, we could see a nearly 19 gigaton reduction of carbon dioxide by 2050.
** Winthrop, Rebecca (8 February 2024), "Unleashing the creativity of teachers and students to combat climate change: An opportunity for global leadership", Brookings
* Financial incentives and social pressure worked better at changing behaviors than did education or feedback.
** Andrea Learned, The Living Change Podcast Host. LinkedIn “Twitter”, (2022).
* People are coming to understand...that even the most imposing and seemingly immutable constraints can indeed be overcome when an enraged citizenry sets its mind to it.
** Andrew Levine, “Pelosi’s Trump Problem and Ours”, Counterpunch, (3 May, 2019).
* It requires only somewhere between 15%–18% of the target population before we see an exponential increase in adoption.
** Elena Linczenyiova, Director, Content and Policy + ICF Climate Center Senior Fellow. “The science of persuasive climate communication”, ‘’ICF, (3 November, 2021).
* [Sustainable design means] designing something that could have multiple iterations of its use over 100 years, rather than making something so specific that it becomes a white elephant.
** Charlie Luxton, architectural designer. “Charlie Luxton interview: Circular from the Start”, Circular, (12 January, 2023).
* In New York, the unions won a far-reaching climate agreement to shift half of New York State’s total energy needs to wind power by 2035. They did it by moving billions of subsidies away from fossil fuels and into a union jobs guarantee known as a project labor agreement.
** Jane McAlevey, labor organizer. “The Climate Movement Doesn’t Know How To Talk With Union Members About Green Jobs”, ‘’The Intercept’’, (9 March, 2020).
* Fair or not, boomers and the Silent Generation have about 70% of the country’s money, compared with about 5% for millennials. So if you want to push around Washington, or Wall Street, or your state capital, it helps to have some people with hairlines like mine.
** Bill McKibben, American journalist, author and environmentalist. “What baby boomers can do about climate change, according to Bill McKibben”, ‘’Yale Climate Connections’’, (20 June, 2023).
* If you really think that the environment is less important than the economy, try holding your breath while you count your money.
** Guy McPherson, American scientist, professor emeritus at the University of Arizona. “Time for a Revolution”, ‘’guymcpherson.com’’, (29 May, 2009).
* The rise in electric vehicle sales has created a rush for minerals such as lithium and copper, with devastating impacts on beautiful places.
** George Monbiot “Electric cars won't solve our pollution problems – Britain needs a total transport rethink”, ‘’The Guardian’’, (23 September, 2020).
* In a circular economy, waste is eliminated through better design, rather than developing novel ways to utilise waste that has already been created.
** Jaine Morris, COO, Coreo. “How these two entrepreneurs led Australia’s transition into the circular economy”, ‘’Smart Company’’, (6 January, 2021).
* In Cebu, we were able to close the road from the Provincial Capitol of Cebu all the way to Pier Uno to raise our demand for road sharing. Everybody came―cyclists and joggers of all ages, even children. That was an eye-opener.
** Antonio Oposa Jr., litigator, organizer and activist for environmental legislation in the Philippines. “People’s Action Sparks ‘Road-Sharing Movement’ in the Philippines: An interview with Antonio Oposa Jr.”, Walkability, (27 September, 2014).
* We are the first generation to feel the impact of climate change and the last generation that can do something about it.
** Michael Patrick McGinn, former Mayor of Seattle, Washington. “Let's Prevent This Crisis: A Letter to Harvard's President Faust”, ‘’HuffPost’’, (17 October, 2013).
* One of the most cost-effective and accessible tactics to combating the climate crisis is better insulation….If even half of existing buildings installed thicker insulation, 8.3 gigatons of emissions could be avoided—that’s more than overhauling efficiency for the entire international shipping industry.
** Meade, Mary (13 November 2022), "10 Ways You Can Fight Climate Change", Green America
* When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.
** John Muir, writer. My first summer in the Sierra, (1911) 110.
* The whole concept of green building is to reduce the demand which enables you to use fewer resources to satisfy the demand.
** Mark Nuzzolo, builder. “Large Connecticut Home is ‘Zero-Energy-Ready’”, ‘’Green Building Advisor’’, (11 June, 2015).
* There can be this reverse causality that, actually, if you have a lot of cyclists, they will demand better infrastructure, and it’s not really the infrastructure that creates more cycling.
** Veronica Penney, reporter. “If You Build It, They Will Bike: Pop-Up Lanes Increased Cycling During Pandemic”, ‘’New York Times’’, (1 April, 2021).
* Solar power appears to be contagious....If you install solar photovoltaic panels on your roof, that greatly increases the odds that your neighbors will, in turn, install their own panels.
** Brad Plumer, “Solar power is contagious: Installing panels often means your neighbors will too”, ‘’Vox’’, (1 April, 2015).
* A third of the food raised or prepared does not make it from farm or factory to fork...The food we waste is responsible for roughly eight percent of global emissions.
** Project Drawdown, “Reduced Food Waste', “Project Drawdown”, (2021).
* Individuals can make a difference, and some educators lean into that to combat this feeling of defeat in their students—whether it’s through school recycling and compost initiatives, cutting back on eating meat like doing meatless Mondays, etc.
** Prothero, Arianna (8 February 2024), "How to Teach Climate Change: Your Questions, Answered", Education Week
* In communicating about climate change, we risk neglecting the most important aspects, which are not just how the climate is changing but how we want to act to mitigate its impacts: where to make wind farms? Do we want to go back to nuclear or not?
** Antonello Provenzale, Director of the Institute of Geosciences and Earth Resources at the National Research Council of Italy. “Study and Communication of Climate Change: an interview with Antonello Provenzale”, CIMA (Certified Investment Management Analyst) Foundation, (8 February, 2022).
* We can put solar panels on our schools and make money for the school system through the state’s first power purchase agreement [and ultimately] surpass our city’s climate goals and save millions of dollars in the process.
** Shiva Rajbhandari, school board member and high school senior, Boise, Idaho. “How student school board members are driving climate action”, ‘’The Hechinger Report’’, (18 April 2023).
* These women are shattering the glass ceiling! They have installed solar systems to four indigenous communities impacting over 1000 residents....
** Leonel Requena, SGP Belize National Coordinator. “Small solutions, big impacts: 5 community-based projects tackling climate change”, ‘’UN.org (United Nations)’’, (28 April, 2022).
* The [mineral estate conservation easement] could restrict mineral extraction under property, which could help landowners concerned about horizontal drilling and other activities.
** Devon Ryan, “New analysis suggests ways for landowners to limit fracking and mineral extraction without regulations”, ‘’Stanford’’, (1 February, 2017).
* At the end of February, thousands of cleaning workers in Minneapolis marched in what’s believed to have been the first union-authorized climate strike in the United States…. Their demands ranged from a guarantee of more environmentally friendly cleaning products to funding for a ‘green technician janitorial training program.’
** April 27, 2020 quoted in Sax, Sarah (27 April 2020), "Employees are Fighting for a New Cause at Work: The Climate", EcoWatch
* Weaponize the outdoor community as a political movement.
** Auden Schendler, Senior Vice President of Sustainability at Aspen Skiing Company. “Turning Skiers Into Climate Voters”, Yes! Magazine, (6 March, 2020).
* I don't buy a lot of bags or shoes, but it's easier to cut beef out of your diet than to not get the new pair of sneakers you need.
** Tatiana Schlossberg, author. “Tatiana Schlossberg's Inconspicuous Consumption Brings Climate Change Down to Earth”, Vogue, (August 27, 2019)
* I want people to feel they can do things. They may not be easy things, but the possibility of change exists.
** Tatiana Schlossberg, author. “Tatiana Schlossberg's Inconspicuous Consumption Brings Climate Change Down to Earth’, Vogue, (August 27, 2019.
* I also think the scale of the change is only going to be solved by governmental action and corporate responsibility, which often will come from governmental regulation. Which is why it's so important to be able to vote and understand these issues.
** Tatiana Schlossberg, author. “Tatiana Schlossberg's Inconspicuous Consumption Brings Climate Change Down to Earth”, Vogue, (August 27, 2019).
* ...you can vote and get involved in the political process, and you can not support companies that aren’t at the very least transparent about their practices.
** [[Tatiana Schlossberg, author. “Inconspicuous Consumption Makes Climate Change Personal”, ‘’Vanity Fair’’, (September 23, 2019).
* Community-managed forests have fewer forest fires, and there is almost zero rate of deforestation.
** Somini Sengupta, International Climate Reporter for The New York Times. “There’s a Global Plan to Conserve Nature. Indigenous People Could Lead the Way.”, ‘’New York Times’’, (11 March, 2021).
* If there is an adage that informs life in co-housing, it’s treat thy neighbor as thy family....what do happy families do? For one thing, they share stuff.
** Judith Shulevitz, cultural critic. “Does Co-Housing Provide a Path to Happiness for Modern Parents?”, ‘’New York Times’’, (22 February, 2021).
* Many of us are absorbing the enormity of climate change in isolation, not realizing that others are also concerned and taking action.
** Michael A. Smyer, professor of psychology at Bucknell University, the founder of Graying Green: Climate Action for an Aging World and an Encore public voices fellow with The OpEd Project. “Kids, it’s time to give your parents 'the talk.' Not that one, the one on climate change”, ‘’USA Today’’,(20 December, 2018).
* Intergenerational collaboration around climate issues, particularly in this election season, starts at home, and then goes to the polling booth.
** Michael A. Smyer, professor of psychology at Bucknell University, the founder of Graying Green: Climate Action for an Aging World and an Encore public voices fellow with The OpEd Project. “The Power of Inclusive, Intergenerational Climate Activism”, ‘’Yes! Magazine’’, (21 September, 2020).
* Do you really need this thing? Can you get it secondhand and reuse it? Can you reimagine how to use it when you’re done with it?
* The true benefit to changing consumption habits is that you’re also changing your mindset about your relationship with stuff.
** Charlotte Stuart-Tilley, GenCLEO Strategist with the CLEO Institute. “ACE Interview: Charlotte Stuart-Tilley on Climate Change and Consumption”, ‘’ACE: Action for the Climate Emergency’’, (March 10, 2022).
* Pollution and climate change by excessive burning of fossil fuels are real threats, not the people who warn that we must take these threats seriously.
** David Suzuki, Canadian academic, science broadcaster, and environmental activist. “Let’s Not Sacrifice Freedom Out of Fear, DeSmog, (3 March, 2015).
* The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it.
** Robert Swan, explorer. Quoted in “Q&A: Jeremy Jones on Climate Deniers & Founding the Nonprofit POW (Protect Our Winters)”.
* You cannot mass produce fashion or consume ‘sustainably’ as the world is shaped today. That is one of the many reasons why we will need a system change.
** Greta Thunberg, climate activist. Greta Thunberg: ethical fast fashion is ‘pure greenwashing’, The Guardian, (10 August, 2021).
* I want you to act as if the house is on fire, because it is.
** Greta Thunberg, climate activist. “Address at World Economic Forum: Our House Is On Fire - Jan 25, 2019”, ‘’Iowa State University: Archives of Women’s Political Communication’’, (25 January, 2019).
* As more systems become complex, the more you have to decentralize – because people can then manage in a much more agile way as they adapt to those complex situations.
** Jean-Pascal Tricoire, “Power to the people: Energy’s decentralized future”, ‘’I by IMD (Institute for Management Development)’’, ( 15 November, 2022).
* The beautiful thing about healthy soil is that it does not matter if you care about climate change, or if you care about the drought, or if you just care about healthy food, or if you want to see more biodiversity, restoring soil hits all of those targets. Almost everyone has some self-interest or desire for soil to be restored.
** Lauren Tucker, Executive Director at Kiss the Ground. Promoting Soil Carbon Sequestration: An Interview with Kiss the Ground, ‘’Food Tank’’, (12 December, 2016).
* Voting is the single most important action Americans can take to address climate change....
** Evan Vaughan, Deputy Director, Mid-Atlantic Renewable Energy Coalition. no title, Twitter, (11 August, 2020).
* In 2014, after repeated calls to government went unheeded, indigenous Guajajara and Ka’apor communities organized their own patrols to rid their land of illegal loggers. They have captured loggers cutting timber or setting fire in their lands, confiscated their chainsaws and seized their trucks.
** Peter Veit, Land and Resource Rights Initiative. “5 Ways Indigenous Groups Are Fighting Back Against Land Seizures”, ‘’World Resources Institute’’, (20 June, 2018).
* If we want people to actually invest in things like decarbonising their home heating, we need them to ‘get’ climate change, and we need them to trust in the actions that they can take.
** Joanne Wade,, Order of the British Empire, Chief Strategic Advisor at the ADE (The Association for Decentralised Energy). “More talk; more action?”, ‘’The Association for Decentralised Energy’’, (2 November, 2021).
* What we mean by social connectedness is allowing people to get to know each other that might not have known each other, and also fostering that spirit of collaboration....So when the storms come, and the heat waves happen, and the rain descends, people are looking out for each other.
* It makes sense to help build social infrastructure in a community [to] increase the likelihood of people surviving during these extreme weather events.
** Rev. Vernon Walker, Program Director of Communities Responding to Extreme Weather. “Knowing Your Neighbors Could Save You From the Next Climate Disaster”, ‘’Nexus Media News’’, (8 December, 2022).
* The most direct impacts are seen in community gardens, where the natural setting helps break down social boundaries and unite the neighborhoods under a common goal to improve their environment.
** Walsh, Emma (15 May 2024), "Food System Revolution: The Potential of Urban Agriculture", Medium
* An Arkansas High School was able to install solar panels on their open field and within three years their budget surplus grew so large they rewarded all teachers with raises between $3,000 – $15,000.
** Noreen Wise, Author and Climate Activist. “How US Schools Have Become Climate Action Rock Stars”, (24 August, 2022).

## See also

* Global warming