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# Amory Lovins

Amory Lovins (born November 13, 1947) is an American physicist, environmental scientist, writer, and Chairman/Chief Scientist of the Rocky Mountain Institute.

## Quotes

* Facts are more mundane than fantasies, but a better basis for conclusions.
** Salon.com, 05/26/05
* If you ask me, it'd be little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy because of what we would do with it.
** The Plowboy Interview with Amory Lovins. Mother Earth News (November/December 1977). Retrieved on 2010-01-05. (1977)
* ...new nuclear plants are simply unfinanceable in the private capital market, and the technology will continue to die of an incurable attack of market forces—all the faster in competitive markets. This is true not just in the U.S., where the last order was in 1978 and all orders since 1973 were cancelled, but globally.
** Winning the Oil Endgame, p. 258
* There are two kinds of micropower. One is co-gen and combined heat and power. That was about two-thirds of the new capacity and three-quarters of the new electricity last year. The rest was distributed or decentralized renewables, which was a $38 billion U.S. global market last year for selling equipment. That's wind, solar, geothermal, small hydro and biomass.... Micropower surpassed nuclear power in worldwide installed capacity in 2002, and surpassed nuclear in electricity generated per year just in the last few months.
** An interview with Amory Lovins re: Nuclear Power
* A widely heralded view holds that nuclear power is experiencing a dramatic worldwide revival and vibrant growth, because it’s competitive, necessary, reliable, secure, and vital for fuel security and climate protection. That’s all false. In fact, nuclear power is continuing its decades-long collapse in the global marketplace because it’s grossly uncompetitive, unneeded, and obsolete—so hopelessly uneconomic that one needn’t debate whether it’s clean and safe; it weakens electric reliability and national security; and it worsens climate change compared with devoting the same money and time to more effective options.
** The Nuclear Illusion p. 1. (May 2008)
* Variable but forecastable renewables (wind and solar cells) are very reliable when integrated with each other, existing supplies and demand. For example, three German states were more than 30 percent wind-powered in 2007—and more than 100 percent in some months. Mostly renewable power generally needs less backup than utilities already bought to combat big coal and nuclear plants' intermittence.
** Missing the Market Meltdown (May 2008)
* When asked if we have enough time to prevent catastrophe, she'd always say that we have exactly enough time -- starting now
** Amory Lovins' eulogy for Donella Meadows
* The markets make a good servant but a bad master, and a worse religion
** "This much I know: Amory Lovins". The Guardian. Retrieved on 2008-11-20.
* Fire made us human, fossil fuels made us modern, but now we need a new fire that make us safe,healthy, and durable. 2006-5-12

## See also

* Donella Meadows
# Caroline Lucas

Caroline Patricia Lucas (born 9 December 1960) is a British Green Party politician who was the MP for Brighton Pavilion from the 2010 to 2024 general elections. She was previously MEP for South East England from 1999 to 2010 and leader of the Green Party twice, between 2008 and 2012 and again between 2016 and 2018.

## Quotes
### 2017

* The government is turning lives upside down by callously playing hard ball over Brexit and it needs to take its responsibilities far more seriously
** "EU citizen detention letters sent in error" BBC News (23 August 2017)

### 2018

* How can the will of the people be undermined by a vote of the people?
** Said after the People's Vote campaign, of which Lucas is part, asked Jeremy Corbyn to call a vote of no confidence in the Conservative government. "Brexit: People's Vote campaign urges Corbyn to call no-confidence vote" BBC News (11 December 2018)

### 2019

* At a moment when we need a leader with courage and integrity, we get a pompous clown.
** Said in a tweet after the election of Boris Johnson as Conservative leader and prime minister in 2019.
* In my experience, women tend to be less tribal, they tend to find it easier to establish trust more quickly
** "Green MP Caroline Lucas calls for all-female emergency cabinet" BBC News (12 August 2019)
* The Leave campaign claimed Brexit would save the NHS. But Home Office plans to end freedom of movement will do the opposite. 65,000 EU citizens work in our NHS. It couldn't cope without them.
** Said in a tweet in August 2019
* The rainforest is being sacrificed on the altar of free trade with Europe
** Said in a tweet during the 2019 Amazon rainforest wildfires in August 2019
* We would be kidding ourselves if we put our trust in Brazil’s right-wing, pro-business president Jair Bolsonaro to protect it.
** "Caroline Lucas MP: The Amazon rainforest must not be sacrificed on the altar of free trade with Europe" PoliticsHome (23 August 2019)
* We will block what is nothing less than a coup.
** Said after Lucas signed the Church House Agreement that pledged that MPs would form an alternative government if Boris Johnson attempted to prorogue Parliament. Quoted in "MPs pledge to form alternative parliament in case of prorogation" The Guardian (27 August 2019)
* Extinction Rebellion are carrying a message we all need to hear. They won’t be silenced by a police crackdown, nor should they be in a free democratic society.
** Cited in "Extinction Rebellion begins legal challenge against protest ban", The Guardian (24 October 2019).
* Ultimately, that speech was a dark moment in British politics. Democracy is indeed under threat from extremists. The problem is, they're running the government itself.
** "I’m still reeling from Rishi Sunak’s shameless, dangerous speech", The Guardian (3 March 2024).
** Referring to Rishi Sunak's speech delivered on 1 March 2024 in Downing Street.
# Richard Mabey

Richard Thomas Mabey (born 20 February, 1941) is a writer and broadcaster, chiefly on the relations between nature and culture.

## Quotes

* It's a thing that happens to living creatures when they're in trouble, an inward journey. That's what the shutting down of everything is about. Regarding depression as an enemy is the worst possible thing you can do. It drains it of meaning. It makes it something exterior to yourself.
** "The hedge kid", Interview by Olivia Laing, The Guardian, 22 December 2007
* The light is extraordinary – luminous, dusty, giving every pale surface the lustre of mother-of-pearl. Mounds of cow parsley and scythed grass glow in the moonbeams like suspended balls of mist.
** The Barley Bird: Notes on the Suffolk Nightingale (2010), quoted in
* Finding words to bridge that divide between the otherness of nature – a swift sleeping on the wing 5,000ft up, and the life-choosing immediacy, the intimate familiarity of the rush of wings past the face – is what most nature writers are striving to do, not wallow in some vanished pastoral world.
** "In defence of nature writing", The Guardian, 18 July 2013
* I wonder if, in the future, we will regard this insistent urge to use wild beings as “proxies” as a kind of cultural appropriation, and begin to see the living world as a commonwealth, not a colony.
** "Vesper Flights by Helen Macdonald review: in danger of metaphor fatigue", The Telegraph, 8 September 2020

## External links

* Authority control: WorldCat search
# Joanna Macy

Joanna Rogers Macy (born May 2, 1929) is an environmental activist, author, scholar of Buddhism, general systems theory, and deep ecology.

## Quotes

* Only a few of us had been able to face directly the obscene conditions we inflicted on animals in our farm factories and modern slaughter houses; but most of us knew on some level that they entailed a suffering that was too much to “stomach.” We can appreciate now what it did to us to eat animals kept long in pain and terror. Because the mass methods employed to raise and kill animals for our tables were relatively new, we did not fully realize the deprivation and torture they entailed. Only a few of us guessed that the glandular responses of the cattle and pigs and chickens pumped adrenalin into their bodies and that we ate with their flesh the rage of the chickens, the terror of the pigs and cattle… Acting now with more respect for other beings, we find we have more respect for ourselves.
** Foreword to Diet for a New America by John Robbins (H J Kramer, 2011)

## Quotes about Joanna Macy

* Joanna Macy writes that until we can grieve for our planet we cannot love it—grieving is a sign of spiritual health. But it is not enough to weep for our lost landscapes; we have to put our hands in the earth to make ourselves whole again. Even a wounded world is feeding us. Even a wounded world holds us, giving us moments of wonder and joy. I choose joy over despair.
** Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass (2013)
# Desmond Majekodunmi

Desmond Majekodunmi (born June 1950) is a Nigerian environmentalist. He is the chairman of the Lekki State Urban Forest and Animal Shelter Initiative (LUFASI), and a radio show host of the Green Hour on Nigeria Info 99.3 FM. Majekodunmi is also an author, a singer and script-writer.[6] In addition to this, he works as a farmer, multi-media engineer/producer, film maker and musician.

## Quotes

* Desmond Majekodunmi speaking at an event organised by the Dawn Project Initiative, to mark the World Emissions Day 2022.
** More than ever before, it has become a necessity for us, especially as Nigerians, to begin to take our environment seriously and care for it. Globally, an estimated three to five million people die yearly as a result of waste and pollution deposited in the air and water around us.
# Jerry Mander

Jerold Irwin "Jerry" Mander (May 1, 1936 – April 11, 2023) was an American activist and author.

## Quotes
### Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television (1978)

* Psychiatrist R. D. Laing, among others, has said that the growing incidence of mental illness these days may be explained in part by the fact that the world we call real and which we ask people to live within and understand is itself open to question. The environment we live in is no longer connected to the mix of planetary processes which brought us all into being. It is solely the product of human mental processes. It is real, but only in the way that a theatrical play or a fun house is real. Our artificial environment is there and we can experience it, yet it has been created on purpose by other humans. It is an interpretation of reality; it no longer reveals how nature works and it cannot provide much useful information to human beings who seek to see their own lives as part of some wider natural process. We are left with no frame of reference untouched by human interpretation.
** p. 87
* Television is an experience that can be had by virtually everyone at the same time. By substituting for a greater diversity of experiences and unifying everyone with it, it aids commercial efficiency. With all people confined to the same mental and physical condition, a single advertising or political voice appropriate to the common mood can influence everyone.
** p. 132
* Television encourages separation: people from community, people from each other, people from themselves, creating more buying units and discouraging organized opposition to the system. It creates a surrogate community: Itself. It becomes everyone’s intimate advisor, teacher and guide to appropriate behavior and awareness. Thereby, it becomes its own feedback system, furthering its own growth and accelerating the transformation of everything and everyone into artificial form. This enables a handful of people to obtain a unique degree of power.
** p. 133
# Marie-Josée Fortin

Marie-Josée Fortin FRSC (born October 21, 1958) is an ecologist and Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Toronto. Fortin holds the Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Spatial Ecology at the University of Toronto. In 2016, she was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

## Quotes

* " Human activities are the main contributors to climate change"
* " I have committed my life to fighting for climate justice, this is our planet, and we are all responsible for taking care of it"
** An Interview with Marie-Josee Fortin: State-and-Transition Models, Methods Ecol Evol, Retrieved: 29, November 2023.
* ‘My success is in my students’ achievements.’
** Prof. Marie-Josée Fortin recognized with U of T's JJ Berry Smith Doctoral Supervision Award. Sean McNeely, June 21, 2021. University Of Toronto. Retrieved: 29, November 2023.
# Wanjira Mathai

Wanjira Mathai (born December 1971) is a Kenyan environmentalist and activist. She is Vice President and Regional Director for Africa at the World Resources Institute, based in Nairobi, Kenya.

## Quotes

* I’d love to be remembered for inspiring young people to live their best lives, to aspire for courageous leadership, transformative leadership.
** "A Conversation with Wanjira Mathai", Love Our Girls
* I am not living in my mother's Shadow, I am basking in her light...
** "Beyond COP21: My Stroll With Wanjira Mathai, Director, wPOWER Hub, Wangari Maathai Institute & Chair, the Green Belt Movement", Huffington Post (December 6, 2017)
# Tom McCall

Thomas Lawson "Tom" McCall (March 22, 1913 - January 8, 1983) was an American statesman, politician and journalist in the state of Oregon. A Republican, he was the state's thirtieth governor from 1967 to 1975. A native of Massachusetts, McCall grew up there and in central Oregon and attended the University of Oregon in Eugene. After college, he worked as a journalist, including time at The Oregonian in Portland during World War II.

## Quotes

* Come visit us again and again. This is a state of excitement. But for heaven's sake, don't come here to live.
** Walth, Brent (November 5, 2006). "McCall never looked so good. But let's move on.". The Oregonian. Retrieved on 2006-11-15.
# Bette Midler

Bette Midler (born December 1, 1945) is an American actress, comedian and singer. She is a Grammy award winner and multiple oscar-nominee. She is well known for her raunchy character "The Divine Miss M," and is an active supporter of gay rights as well as an environmentalist.

## Quotes

* A lot of people say that my life is wasted on me because I could be a bigger asshole than I am, but I've chosen not to be.
** The Strip podcast interviewed by Steve Friess PODXIES.
* The only thing Madonna will ever do like a virgin is give birth in a stable.
** From her album 'Mud will be Flung Tonight'
* #ChristineMcVie has left us. What memories, what joy, and what a legacy...
** bettemidler@BetteMidler (on Twitter 1:13 PM · Nov 30, 2022)
# Izabella Miko

Izabella Anna Mikołajczak (21 January 1981–) is a Polish-American actress, dancer, producer, and environmental activist.

## Quotes

* People ask me why I became vegan. I went #plantbased overnight after finding out it’s the single most influential thing you can do for the planet. Having that knowledge I wouldn’t be able to look myself in the mirror if I’d continued to eat meat. I didn’t want to be a part of.
** Tweet (October 3, 2018)

## External links

* Official website
* Izabella Miko on IMDb
# Jenipher Namuyangu

Jenipher Kacha Namuyangu, also Jennifer Namuyangu Byakatonda, but commonly referred to as Jennifer Namuyangu, (born July 27, 1968) is a Ugandan politician and environmentalist. She belongs to the National Resistance Movement political party. She is the current Minister of State for Bunyoro Affairs in the Prime Minister's Office and former Minister of State for Local Government in the Ugandan Cabinet. She was appointed to that position on 6 June 2016. She previously served as the Minister of State for Water Resources, from 1 June 2006 until 27 May 2011.

## Quotes

* The President has already spoken about this. If it’s about aid or whatever, we are simply not going to accept these acts in this country
* I also want to sound a warning that if there is any school which is compromising about this issue, it is going to be shut down. Every parent must watch their child. Let us all speak with one voice to protect our children.
* When we are talking of homosexuality, we have questions about these Churches which pray at night. We wonder why they choose to pray at night and not during the day,
* The issues raised we are going to write to all the concerned ministries. For instance on that 30million for sports and the gadgets for our learned with special needs, I am going to write to out First Lady,
* This will entail facilitation of Parish chiefs in routine parish data collection, development of Parish Plans, and monitoring all services delivered in the Parish. In the new Manifesto Period, the Ministry will strengthen the Parish level to cater for the added responsibilities for Parish Model Implementation,”
* We need a minimum of UGX 110.4Bn
# Sunita Narain

Sunita Narain (born 1961) is an Indian environmentalist and political activist as well as a major proponent of the Green concept of sustainable development. Narain is director general of the India-based research institute for the Centre for Science and Environment, director of the Society for Environmental Communications, and editor of the fortnightly magazine, Down To Earth.

## Quotes

How an Environmental Activist Became a Pioneer for Climate Justice in India (2017)
    "How an Environmental Activist Became a Pioneer for Climate Justice in India", Smithsonian Magazine (September 15, 2017)
* What we need today as a nation is a new paradigm of growth—whenever and however it happens.
* This doesn’t mean we have to stop developing. Just we have to do it differently.
* We cannot afford to do what China and America did: have decades of 8 percent GDP growth, then do a cleanup act later.
* Now you don’t; everyone knows what it is. It’s right there for you to see.
* No one is an environmentalist by birth. It is only your path, your life, your travels that awaken you.
* It didn’t much matter how well we understood the issue if we weren’t to take that both were common property resources to share and manage globally.
# Speranza Ndege

Speranza Ndege is a Kenyan educator, environmentalist, trainer and consultant who currently serves a senior lecturer and director of the Institute of Open, Distance and e-Learning (ODeL) at the University of Embu.

## Quotes

* There is no age when you cannot use technology. A professor at my university asked me if, at 70, he was too old to learn technology. I told him no, technology is accessible to everyone – and these days that professor carries a laptop. As long as somebody gives you the confidence you can do it. This is what is so mis- sing from so many of our girls. They need confidence. We need to de-mystify technology, there is nothing hard about using a computer.
** As quoted in the high level Panel debate on International Women's Day Goodbye to the IT girl? WHY are girls deserting Technology ITU headquarters, March 10 2011
# Tina Ngata

Tina Ngata is an advocate for environmental, Indigenous and human rights based in New Zealand.

## Quotes

* Whereas diverse genders have a home and a history here, on and from this whenua and in this region of the globe – transphobia does not. It was brought here on a boat, along with white supremacy, and is rallying now, alongside its sibling of white supremacy, for its survival.
** Tina Ngata, Tina Ngata, March 25, 2023
* The fires of colonization robbed us of so much.
** Tina Ngata, Tina Ngata, March 25, 2023
* In the tens of thousands, New Zealanders are showing up to call for an end to the collective punishment, the indiscriminate killing, the unjust occupation, and to rightfully name these acts for what they are: crimes against humanity.
** Tina Ngata and Tameem Shaltoni Tina Ngata, November 28, 2023
* The 2023 New Zealand elections have arguably been the most racialised in our nation’s history.
** Tina Ngata, E-Tangata, October 8, 2023
* While every New Zealand election is customarily (and also unacceptably) characterised by race-baiting politics and the throwing of whānau Māori under the colonial bus for the sake of majority votes, this year we’ve seen multiple lines crossed that indicate a mainstreaming of extreme, violent anti-Māori rhetoric.
** Tina Ngata, E-Tangata, October 8, 2023

### "Once were gardeners, lovers, poets… and warriors" (2018)

Tina Ngata, "Once were gardeners, lovers, poets… and warriors", The Spinoff (December 19, 2018)
* Colonisation does not uphold itself voluntarily. Like any structure, with time, if neglected, it will begin to crumble.
* The myth of the violent, brutish, immature, dependent warrior race is one such tool, used to hold up the structure of colonisation. It does this by legitimising the need for a parent state to oversee us, correct us, and dominate us. The truth of the matter is that there is no such thing as a genetic disposition towards warfare and violence. There is no “warrior gene”. Conflict was, as with all peoples, just one dimension of our complex reality.
* We are not a warrior race.
* We are, and always have been, a race of voyagers, scientists, gardeners, lovers, poets, composers, philosophers, artists, orators, mathematicians, dancers, astronomers, builders and healers. We were peacemakers and keepers as much as warriors – and in many cases more so.
* The trope of the savage indigenous man is one that is capitalised upon by media and state in a way that is harmful and diminishing.
# Edward Norton

Edward Harrison Norton (born August 18, 1969) is an Oscar-nominated American actor and film director.

## Quotes

* Drew Barrymore: Eddie Vedder said something like, "The more you're known as a personality, the less you're accepted as an entertainer." Edward Norton: I would agree with that. On the other hand, I hate the "dark prince" act that some actors put on when they're doing publicity. If it's for real, if you're really a dark prince, then don't sit down with an interviewer and act like a dark prince. I don't necessarily love doing these things, but once you've agreed to do them, I think you ought to get on board.
** Interview by Drew Barrymore (Interview Magazine - April 1996)
* An all-too-common reaction to something like racism is to hate the act so much you dismiss the person. But in [American History X] you're forced to confront the complexity of the character and his tragedy - and the fact, which people don't want to recognise, that someone like him can come out of a normal middle-class home.
** "Edward Norton is up for an Oscar. But who is he?" (archived), theguardian.com, 19 March 1999.
* My feeling is that it is film, the responsibility of people making films and people making all art to specifically address dysfunctions in the culture. I think that any culture where the art is not reflecting a really dysfunctional component of the culture, is a culture in denial. And i think that's much more intensely dangerous on lots of levels than considered examinations of those dysfunctions throught art is dangerous.
** Promotional interview at Yale University for Fight Club (October 3, 1999)

## External links

* Edward Norton.org
# Adesuwa Obasuyi

Adesuwa Obasuyi (born February 1990, Nigeria) is a Nigerian environmentalist and climate change advocate and the initiator of Sustainable Africa Cities and Communities Initiative, an environmental non-governmental organization that focuses on waste and waste data management in Nigeria and Africa.

## Quotes

* Our silent environmentalists, as I like to call them, deserve to be integrated into a system where their economic and social security is enhanced to ensure no one is left behind and the furthest behind are reached first.
** The need for government, private sector, academia, citizens, to give voice, visibility, credit to Nigerian informal waste workers
* Nigerian informal waste workers’ plight is quite pathetic and the job they do is an essential job because, without them, we will all be living on dumpsites
https://tribuneonlineng.com/environmentalist-makes-case-for-informal-waste-workers/