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# Eriel Deranger

Eriel Tchekwie Deranger (born 1979) is a Dënesųłiné indigenous rights activist and climate activist. She is executive director of Indigenous Climate Action.

## Quotes

* "Indigenous communities across Canada are already leaders in climate mitigation, adaptation and building real solutions. Many of the solutions and strategies created by Indigenous communities aren’t always apparent or recognized, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t as vital.”
* “Existing Indigenous climate action can be seen in the success of communities challenging industrial development[i], and asserting Indigenous sovereignty that acts as a buffer to climate change impacts,”
* “This coupled with Indigenous-owned renewable energy development[ii] and the innumerable community based monitoring and land guardian programs[iii] ensures community and cultural survival in an era of extreme climate change.”
* “Indigenous Climate Action is created by and led by Indigenous Peoples to organize an Indigenous response to both the drivers of and the impacts of climate change, and real solutions for a future we can all benefit from. Now more than ever true leadership stemming from the original carriers of Indigenous traditional knowledge (ITK) is needed at forefront the global movement for climate justice,”
** Indigenous Climate Action Welcomes Eriel Tchekwie Deranger as Executive Director, Jackie Joiner. Indigenous Climate Action. Retrieved: 29, November.
* " When addressing climate change issues, we need to look deep into the root causes and come up with mitigation and adaptation measures."
** Interview with Eriel Deranger | APHA 2017 Annual Meeting & Expo, Nov 6, 2017. WebEdgeMedicine, Retrieved: 29, November 2023.
# Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Lawrence Ferlinghetti (born Lawrence Ferling on March 24, 1919 - February 22, 2021) was an American poet and painter, and the co-founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers. Author of poetry, translations, fiction, theatre, art criticism, and film narration, he is best known for A Coney Island of the Mind (New York: New Directions, 1958), a collection of poems that has been translated into nine languages, with sales of over 1,000,000 copies.

## Quotes

* The pennycandystore beyond the El is where I first fell in love with unreality
** A Coney Island of the Mind
* It was a face which darkness could kill in an instant
** Pictures of the Gone World
* Poetry is the shadow cast by our imaginations.
** These Are My Rivers: New & Selected Poems, 1955-1993 (New Directions) ISBN: 0-0112-1273-4 0-0112-1252-1
* I was the all-American boy, the Eagle Scout. I remember I was at my girlfriend's apartment, and there were these strange publications like The Nation and The New Republic. I started looking at them and thought, "Gee, this is weird; people saying things against America?" It was an awakening. On the East Coast, I'd never even heard of conscientious objectors.
** San Francisco Chronicle, September 24, 2012

## See also

* Nancy Peters
* Gary Snyder

## External links

* Ferlinghetti's Bookstore in San Francisco, City Lights
# Tim Flannery

Tim Flannery (born 28 January 1956) is an Australian mammalogist, palaeontologist, environmentalist and global warming activist.

## Quotes
### Coal

* Coal fires are a notorious risk for coalmines. In North America whole towns have had to be relocated because of fires that have been uncontrollable.”
** 6 March 2014ː Vulnerable groups of people in South Morwell Australia were advised to temporarily relocate due to the danger of PM2.5 particles in 2014.

### The Weather Makers (2005)

    All page numbers from the 2006 trade paperback edition published by Grove Press
* The golden toad was the first documented victim of global warming. We had killed it with our profligate use of coal-fired electricity and our oversize cars just as surely as if we had flattened its forest with bulldozers. It was as if, having experienced it, we did not recognize what happiness was.
** Chapter 12 (p. 119)
* In our Gaian world, everything is connected to and influences everything else.
** Chapter 16 (p. 160)
* Nothing in predictive climate science is more certain than the extinction of many of the world’s mountain-dwelling species.
** Chapter 18 (p. 172)
* This problem may not occur for several hundred years, but by the time we see the first signs, it will be far too late to do anything about it.
** Chapter 20 (p. 186)
* If humans pursue a business-as-usual course for the first half of this century, I believe the collapse of civilization due to climate change becomes inevitable.
** Chapter 22 (p. 209)
* It is imperative to get the smelters to pay a fair price for their power; otherwise, market forces can never induce them to limit their emissions.
** Chapter 24 (p. 231)
* Kyoto questions the philosophies underpinning societies such as America and Australia, which cling to the myth of limitless growth.
** Chapter 25 (p. 237)
* At the time the Danes decided to back wind power, the cost of electricity produced this way was many times greater than that produced by fossil fuels. The Danish government, however, could see its potential and supported the industry until costs came down. Today Denmark leads the world in both wind power production and the building of turbines; and wind now supplies 21 percent of the country’s electricity. One striking aspect of the way that wind power has developed there is that some 85 percent of the capacity is owned by individuals or wind cooperatives, and so power lies in the hands of the people.
** Chapter 29 (p. 268)
* Some time this century, the day will arrive when the human influence on the climate will overwhelm all natural factors.
** Chapter 32 (p. 284)

## See also

* Fossil fuel divestment
* Global warming
# Jerome Foster II

Jerome Foster II (born 9 May 2002) is an American climate activist living in Washington DC. A leader of the Fridays for Future movement and environmental movement-at-large, Foster is a Co-Editor-in-Chief of The Climate Reporter and the founder of OneMillionOfUs.

## Quotes by Jerome Foster II

* "It is only in the cracks of division that corruption can seep in and pollution can spew out."
** https://www.democracynow.org/2019/9/20/youth_climate_lawsuit_juliana_v_united#transcript DemocracyNow (20 September 2019)
* "Civil Rights are Human Rights and human rights are Environmental Rights… NOW IS THE TIME TO ACT."
** JEROME FOSTER II: THE NEXT GENERATION LEADING THE WAY authored by League of Conservation Voters.
* "My message to him, my message to President Trump, would be that there is no more time to continue to accept money from the fossil fuel industry. There’s no more time to continue to be bought off and paid for, because this is our lives that we’re fighting for. We’re fighting for our children. We’re fighting for our sisters and brothers. We’re fighting for people that are drowning."
** https://www.democracynow.org/2019/9/20/youth_climate_lawsuit_juliana_v_united#transcript DemocracyNow (20 September 2019)
* "I founded OneMillionOfUs to empower, educate, and register one million young people to vote in the 2020 elections and beyond. As a great and honorable president once said, “We are the ones we have been waiting for.” We are no longer waiting, we are acting."
** Speech at LCV Annual Gala
* "I am here on behalf of young people worldwide. For the young girl in Guatemala starving because of drought; for the young boy in Sumatra whose entire rainforest community is set ablaze for the extraction of palm oil; for the mother in Beijing who attended her 3-year-old daughter’s funeral because she breathed in the toxic air of the city. I speak for the millions suffering at the destructive hands of the fossil fuel industry."
** Speech at LCV Annual Gala
* "When I interned for the American Hero, the Honorable John Lewis, I learned that this will be a tough fight, yet we must be determined to stand against injustice. Civil Rights are Human Rights and human rights are Environmental Rights… NOW IS THE TIME TO ACT."
** Speech at LCV Annual Gala
* "History shows that voting is the sword that cuts through all injustice."
** Speech at LCV Annual Gala
* "One person, one vote is the great equalizer of humanity."
** Speech at LCV Annual Gala
* "My mission is to show that we have the power to create a more just democracy that represents all of us."
** Speech at LCV Annual Gala

## External links

* Encyclopedic article on Jerome Foster II on Wikipedia
# Masanobu Fukuoka

Masanobu Fukuoka (福岡 正信, 2 February 1913 – 16 August 2008) was a Japanese farmer and philosopher celebrated for his natural farming and re-vegetation of desertified lands. He was a proponent of no-till, no-herbicide grain cultivation farming methods traditional to many indigenous cultures, from which he created a particular method of farming, commonly referred to as "Natural Farming" or "Do-Nothing Farming".

## Quotes

* My ultimate dream is to sow seeds in the desert. To revegetate the deserts is to sow seed in people's hearts.
** The Road Back to Nature (1984; English translation 1987, p. 360).

### The One-Straw Revolution (1975)

    The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming, translated by Larry Korn, Chris Pearce and Tsune Kurosawa, New York Review Books, 2010. Originally translated in 1978.
* Eventually I decided to give my thoughts a form, to put them into practice, and so to determine whether my understanding was right or wrong.
** Chapter 1, p. 5
* Speaking biologically, fruit in a slightly shriveled state is holding its respiration and energy consumption down to the lowest possible level. It is like a person in meditation: his metabolism, respiration, and calorie consumption reach an extremely low level. Even if he fasts, the energy within the body will be conserved. In the same way, when mandarin oranges grow wrinkled, when fruit shrivels, when vegetables wilt, they are in the state that will preserve their food value for the longest possible time.
** Chapter 3, p. 88
* If 22 bushels (1,300 pounds) of rice and 22 bushels of winter grain are harvested from a quarter acre field such as one of these, then the field will support five to ten people each investing an average of less than one hour of labor per day. But if the field were turned over to pasturage, or if the grain were fed to cattle, only one person could be supported per quarter acre. Meat becomes a luxury food when its production requires land which could provide food directly for human consumption. This has been shown clearly and definitely. Each person should ponder seriously how much hardship he is causing by indulging in food so expensively produced.
** Chapter 3, pp. 103-104
* The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.
** Chapter 3, p. 119
* Within one thing lie all things, but if all things are brought together not one thing can arise...A person can analyze and investigate a butterfly as far as he likes, but he cannot make a butterfly.
** p. 141
* Nature , or the body itself, serves as a capable guide. But this subtle guidance goes unheard by most people because of the clamor caused by desire and by the activity of the discriminating mind.
** p. 143
# Birutė Galdikas

Birutė Marija Filomena Galdikas, OC (born 10 May 1946), is a Lithuanian-Canadian anthropologist, primatologist, conservationist, ethologist, and author. She is a Professor at Simon Fraser University. In the field of primatology, Galdikas is recognized as a leading authority on orangutans.

## Quotes

* I had never seen Gundul threaten or assault a woman, although he frequently charged male assistants. The cook was screaming hysterically. I thought, 'He's trying to kill her.' I began to realize that Gundul did not intend to harm the cook, but had something else in mind. The cook stopped struggling. 'It's all right,' she murmured. She lay back in my arms, with Gundul on top of her. Gundul was very calm and deliberate. He raped the cook. As he moved rhythmically back and forth, his eyes rolled upward to the heavens. I was in shock. Gundul let the cook go, stood up, and soundlessly, moved off the feeding platform into the trees. It was over just like that.
** 1995 in Reflections of Eden: My Years with the Orangutans of Borneo as quoted in 1997 in page 137 of Richard W. Wrangham's "Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence" and in 2011 in page 71 of Douglas A. Vakoch's "Ecofeminism and Rhetoric: Critical Perspectives on Sex, Technology, and Discourse"
* ... visitor to take the dugout back to Camp Leakey for help. My repeated blows had no effect on Gundul; but neither did he fight back very aggressively. I began to realize that Gundul did not intend to harm the cook, but had something else in mind. The cook stopped struggling. "It's all right," she murmured. She lay back in my arms, with Gundul on top of her. Gundul was very calm and deliberate. He raped the cook. As he moved rhythmically back and forth, his eyes rolled upward to the heavens. I was in shock. I felt as though this were happening to other people somewhere else, and I was watching from a distance. I have no idea how much time passed.
** alternate version quoted in April 1999 on page 97 of Michael P. Ghiglieri 's "The Dark Side Of Man: Tracing The Origins Of Violence"
# David Goodstein

David Goodstein (April 5, 1939 – April 10, 2024) was an American physicist and professor of physics at the California Institute of Technology.

## Quotes

* Human civilization as we know it will end, sometime in the 21st century.
** Public lecture on peak oil and energy, November 2004.
* Ludwig Boltzmann, who spent much of his life studying statistical mechanics, died in 1906, by his own hand. Paul Ehrenfest, carrying on the work, died similarly in 1933. Now it is our turn to study statistical mechanics. Perhaps it will be wise to approach the subject cautiously.
** States of Matter (1974), p. 1.
# Ineza Umuhoza Grace

Ineza Umuhoza Grace (born 1996) is an eco-feminist, climate activist and environmentalist from Kigali, Rwanda. She is the CEO of The Green Protector, co-ordinator of the Loss and Damage Youth Coalition and Research Assistant for the CCLAD project. She was a Global Citizen Prize winner in 2023.

## Quotes

* Rwandan children need the Loss and Damage Fund because children are vulnerable. When you see what happened in Rwanda in May this year, schools were destroyed by disasters and children were much more affected. If the Loss and Damage Fund is there, they recover faster. The fund could help the country avoid heavy debt in rehabilitating the damages .
** https://www.newtimes.co.rw/article/13000/news/environment/cop28-youth-call-for-urgent-action-on-climate-finance (Grace said that in Rwanda Pavilion in UAE, Dubai.) The New times Rwanda, December 11, 2023.
# Roger Hallam

Julian Roger Hallam (born 4 May 1966) is a British farmer and environmental activist, a co-founder of Extinction Rebellion.

## Quotes

* Unlike many of the spontaneous social-media-fuelled rebellions and uprising in recent years, Extinction Rebellion has been carefully planned. For several years a group of academics and activists have been working on two main questions: Why have we failes so miserably to stop climate change? And how the hell are we going to stop it?
* The social science is totally clear on this: violence does not optimize the chance of successful, progressive outcomes. [...] From all studies, the message is clear: if you practise non-violence, you are more likely to succeed.
* The key lesson about all structural political change is this: disruption works. Without disruption there is no economic cost, and without economic cost the guys running this world really don't care.
** Hallam, Roger (2019). "The civil resistance model". This Is Not a Drill: An Extinction Rebellion Handbook. London: Penguin Books. pp. 99-105. ISBN 9780141991443.

## See also

* Civil disobedience
* Direct action
* Extinction Rebellion
* Nonviolent resistance
# Daryl Hannah

Daryl Christine Hannah (born 3 December 1960) is an American actress and activist.

## Quotes

* When people talk about reincarnation, I always feel that if there is such a thing, this is definitely my first time, because I'm always amazed. I'm both amazed at how horrifically we can treat each other and all other living things, and also amazed at the wonder and the beauty. I'm like: 'Oh my God, look at that bird!' or 'Look at that flower!' literally every single day. I can't get over how people are putting so much energy and so many resources into going to Mars when everything we could ever dream of is on this planet, if we just take care of it. What do they have on Mars? They don't even have oxygen up there!
** "'I'm a little bit of a nerd'", interview with The Guardian (7 June 2009).
* [At age 11] I noticed this truck full of calves and bonded with one in particular, who kept kissing me. After about an hour the truck driver came out of the restaurant. I asked him what the calf's name was, and he said, "Veal, tomorrow morning by 7 o'clock." That was it: I could no longer disassociate the creature from what was on my plate.
** About her vegetarianism. "One on One with Daryl Hannah", interview with Vegetarian Times (7 April 2010).
# Woody Harrelson

Woodrow Tracy Harrelson (born 23 July 1961) is an American actor. He first became known for his role as Woody Boyd on the sitcom Cheers (1985–1993), for which he won a Primetime Emmy Award. He received 3 Academy Award nominations for The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996), The Messenger (2009), and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017).

## Quotes

* If you eat chicken, maybe you're on one level. If you wear a mink coat, maybe you're on another level. But if you wear cosmetics, cosmetics that are tested on animals, then you're just unconscious. Really, my message is simple. It's a message of compassion. In this world that is spinning madly out of control, we have to realize that we're all related. We have to try to live harmoniously.
** Interview by PETA, from Premiere magazine; as quoted in "Woody Harrelson on the seeds of spirituality and a change in his diet", in EatVeg.com (archived on 3 June 2003).
* It's been at least 20 years. I used to eat burgers and steak, and I would just be knocked out afterward; I had to give it up. The first thing was dairy. I was about 24 years old and I had tons of acne and mucus. I met some random girl on a bus who told me to quit dairy and all those symptoms would go away three days later. By God she was right.
** Interview with Maxim magazine, explaining why he became vegan; as quoted in "Woody Harrelson’s Vegan Acne Cure", in HuffingtonPost.com (23 September 2009).
* Because superior non-animal methods are used for this exact training by military and civilian programs around the world, animals are clearly not required to meet your objectives. … I'm sure you agree that our military personnel deserve state-of-the-art training and that our country deserves to be respected for its civilized treatment of animals.
** Letter that he sent to the Army, against the use of monkeys in chemical attack training exercises; full text in "Woody Harrelson Fights Army Tests on Chimps", in Usnews.com (13 September 2011).
# Paul Hawken

Paul Hawken (born February 8, 1946, in California) is an environmentalist, entrepreneur, and author.

## Quotes

* We have an economy where we steal the future, sell it in the present, and call it GDP [gross domestic product].
** Paul Hawken Top 10 Myths About Sustainability at mindfully.org, 2009.
# Pete Hay

Pete Hay is Reader in Geography and Environmental Studies at the University of Tasmania.

## Quotes

* Fascism is perhaps best defined as a pathological conservatism: the elements of conservatism warped and twisted into a parody of themselves, by concentration on certain selected symbols (particularly the nation), which are mystified and deified.
** Main Currents in Western Environmental Thought. Indiana University Press. 2002. p. 182. ISBN 978-0-253-34053-5.

## External links

* Pete Hay's profile at the University of Tasmania.
* Pete Hay at ResearchGate.
* Pete Hay at Academia.edu.
* Authority control: WorldCat search
# Helen McGregor

Helen McGregor is an Australian geologist and climate change researcher. She is currently a Fellow with the Research School of Earth Sciences at the Australian National University. McGregor completed secondary school in 1992 and from there was awarded a scholarship to study geology at James Cook University, and graduated with a 1st class BSc(Hons) in 1995. After working as a geologist in the mining industry she decided to return to university and complete a PhD.

## Quotes

* "Australia is the land of drought and flooding rains, and in a recent paper we’ve shown that’s been the case for more than 500 years."
* "Even as people change the climate by adding greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, variability will continue to play a large role in Australia’s climate."
* "Trees and corals are sensitive to their environments. For example, trees grow less in dry years and more in wet years."
** 500 years of drought and flood: trees and corals reveal Australia’s climate history. December 3, 2015, 8.53pm SAST, Jamie Duncan, The Conversation. Retrieved: 20 November 2023
# David Helvarg

David Helvarg (born April 10, 1951) is an American journalist and environmental activist.

## Quotes

* We tend to think of America's days of frontier exploration as being behind us, but that's because we tend not to think of the other 71% of our blue planet.
** Public comment to the US Oceans Commission, 2004.
* Remember that sign they hung up in an EPA office during the Reagan administration, "No good deed goes unpunished"? Under George Bush, no good science goes unpunished.
** Grist magazine, January 3, 2005
* Actually, any time I get to blow bubbles pretty much lights me up.
** Grist magazine, January 3, 2005 describing his love of diving
* The terminally cute sea otter is a marine weasel into rough sex. The male otter's arms (legs, whatever) are effective for grooming their fine pelts or cracking shells on the rocks they place on their bellies, but they are too short for getting a good grip on a mate. So the male gets firm purchase by biting down on the female's nose before going for a little splendor in the kelp. Afterward you can often spot the females hauled up on rocks along the shore, their fur matted and their noses bloody. It's not hard to imagine that a female with a heavily scarred nose might get a reputation as an easy otter.
** Los Angeles Times, January 26, 2005.