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#1

“The present convergence of crises––in money, energy, education, health, water, soil, climate, politics, the environment, and more––is a birth crisis, expelling us from the old world into a new.”
― Charles Eisenstein, Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition

tags: change, crises, economy, education, gift-economy, money, paradigm-shift, philosophy, societies-in-transition, spirituality

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#2

“We sense that ‘normal’ isn’t coming back, that we are being born into a new normal: a new kind of society, a new relationship to the earth, a new experience of being human.”
― Charles Eisenstein

tags: humanity, new-normal, normality, paradigm-shift, paradigms, sacred-economics, societies-in-transition

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#3

“I am a stranger, even to myself.”
― Cameron Jace, Circus

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#4

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish

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#5

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning

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#6

“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, All Men Are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections

tags: forgiveness, strength, weakness

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#7

“First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you.”
― Nicholas Klein

tags: conflict, fighting, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, trial

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#8

“Where there is love there is life.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

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#9

“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: animals, ethics, gandhi, morals

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#10

“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: bounty, conservation, earth, environment, greed, indulgence, inspirational, man, need

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#11

“To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

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#12

“To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: animals, goodness, humanity, lambs, sheep

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#13

“By eating meat we share the responsibility of climate change, the destruction of our forests, and the poisoning of our air and water. The simple act of becoming a vegetarian will make a difference in the health of our planet.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, The World We Have: A Buddhist Approach to Peace and Ecology

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#14

“Our economic system and our planetary system are now at war. Or, more accurately, our economy is at war with many forms of life on earth, including human life. What the climate needs to avoid collapse is a contraction in humanity’s use of resources; what our economic model demands to avoid collapse is unfettered expansion. Only one of these sets of rules can be changed, and it’s not the laws of nature.”
― Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate

tags: climate-change

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#15

“When you are in a hole, stop digging!”
― Bill McKibben

tags: climate-change, climate-change-denial, climate-crisis, climate-denial

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#16

“money supplants skill; it's possession allows us to become happily stupid.”
― Bill McKibben, The Age of Missing Information

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#17

“the television culture celebrates incompetence.”
― Bill McKibben, The Age of Missing Information

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#18

“Men argue. Nature acts.”
― Voltaire

tags: climate-change, man, nature

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#19

“Any serious social, political, and economic change must include veganism.”
― GaryLFrancione

tags: ableist, abolition, abolitionist, ahimsa, animals, classism, climate-change, education, exploitation, extinction, francione, global-warming, health, heterosexism, inspirational-quotes, justice, life, moral-imperative, moral-obligation, nonviolence, nonviolence-jainism, peace-making, peace-movement, peace-on-earth, racism, rights, sentience, sexism, slavery, speciesism, veganism, vulnerable, wisdom

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#20

“So we are left with a stark choice: allow climate disruption to change everything about our world, or change pretty much everything about our economy to avoid that fate. But we need to be very clear: because of our decades of collective denial, no gradual, incremental options are now available to us.”
― Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate

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#21

“It is a civilizational wake-up call. A powerful message—spoken in the language of fires, floods, droughts, and extinctions—telling us that we need an entirely new economic model and a new way of sharing this planet.”
― Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate

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#22

“Because, underneath all of this is the real truth we have been avoiding: climate change isn’t an “issue” to add to the list of things to worry about, next to health care and taxes. It is a civilizational wake-up call. A powerful message—spoken in the language of fires, floods, droughts, and extinctions—telling us that we need an entirely new economic model and a new way of sharing this planet. Telling us that we need to evolve.”
― Naomi Klein

tags: climate-change, enrionmentalism, environment, environmental-conservation, environmental-degradation, environmental-protection, global-warming, pollution

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#23

“One of the biggest obstacles to making a start on climate change is that it has become a cliche before it has even been understood”
― Tim Flannery, The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth

tags: climate-change, science

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#24

“And that is what is behind the abrupt rise in climate change denial among hardcore conservatives: they have come to understand that as soon as they admit that climate change is real, they will lose the central ideological battle of our time—whether we need to plan and manage our societies to reflect our goals and values, or whether that task can be left to the magic of the market.”
― Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate

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#25

“Global warming is by its very nature a threat, but it is a deadly threat only because it fails to trigger the brain's alarm. It leaves us sleeping in a burning bed.”
― Dan Gilbert

tags: climate-change, climate-messaging, cognitive-functioning, dan-gilbert, global-warming

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#26

“Humans aren’t going to do anything in time to prevent the planet from being destroyed wholesale. Poor people are too preoccupied by primary emergencies, rich people benefit from the status quo, and the middle class are too obsessed with their own entitlement and the technological spectacle to do anything. The risk of runaway global warming is immediate. A drop in the human population is inevitable, and fewer people will die if collapse happens sooner.”
― Aric McBay, Deep Green Resistance: Strategy to Save the Planet

tags: anti-civ, climate-change, collapse, deep-green-resistance, global-warming, population

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#27

“It’s not simply that these “cool dudes” deny climate science because it threatens to upend their dominance-based worldview. It is that their dominance-based worldview provides them with the intellectual tools to write off huge swaths of humanity, and indeed, to rationalize profiting from the meltdown.”
― Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate

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#28

“We are the last generation with a real opportunity to save the world.”
― Laurence Overmire, The One Idea That Saves The World: A Call to Conscience and A Call to Action

tags: climate-change, environment, generation, global-warming

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#29

“right now capitalism is winning hands down. It wins every time the need for economic growth is used as the excuse for putting off climate action yet again, or for breaking emission reduction commitments already made.”
― Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate

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#30

“I think the answer is far more simple than many have led us to believe: we have not done the things that are necessary to lower emissions because those things fundamentally conflict with deregulated capitalism, the reigning ideology for the entire period we have been struggling to find a way out of this crisis. We are stuck because the actions that would give us the best chance of averting catastrophe—and would benefit the vast majority—are extremely threatening to an elite minority that has a stranglehold over our economy, our political process, and most of our major media outlets.”
― Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate

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