Climate Emergency Quotes

“You are not helping the planet, you are not helping nature, you are the planet, you are nature, you are helping yourself”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom

“Do you want to stop an avenger level threat? Then you should raise an army (trees) to fight climate change.”
― Mohith Agadi

“Climate change is a human rights infringement.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Constitution of The United Peoples of Earth

“It's not that the planet can't heal itself, it can, but once it starts to heal itself, humankind will be eradicated as disease-causing germs.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Gentalist: There's No Social Work, Only Family Work

“Mother Earth is a living organism, forests are the lungs of the planet, soil is the womb, oceans are blood - climate change is the planet having fever, in response to the human virus.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“Some rich people think that they can handle climate change by using their money: Well, but if the world sinks, you won't have the chance to leave the ship with a lifeboat! Where will you go? To the space, stupid rich? Let's remember that people don't have a colony in the cosmos yet!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Destruction of our Earth - created by billions of years of evolutionary process - with our stupidity of the last few centuries is a candidate to be one of the most tragicomic scenes in the history of this universe!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“We barely have a decade to reduce emission, after that all the prayers won't rescue humanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Gente Mente Adelante: Prejudice Conquered is World Conquered

“Electric cars won't do anything for climate emergency, unless all electricity comes from renewable energy.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth

“Ditch the car, ride a bike.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“Along with the rest of the environmental movement, I used the expression 'climate emergency', but over the past year of elm-watching, I've realised emergencies are events that require immediate, drastic, high-paced intervention, designed to bring the situation to an end. Climate action just isn't like that and I no longer believe the emergency metaphor is helpful: it implies that the problem will be short-lived, that experts will be able to handle it and that we should be in a state of heightened emotion, in 'fight-or-flight' mode, until help arrives. It makes many people so upset that they're understandably immobilised or frozen with fear, or too distressed to be rational. In reality we all need to engage deeply and long term, in cool, life-affirming ways. I believe recovery or healing is a better way of thinking about the issue: getting off our fossil fuel addiction, restoring our damaged relationship with the rest of the natural world and trasforming to healthier ways of being.”
― Mandy Haggith, The Lost Elms: A Love Letter to Our Vanished Trees – and the Fight to Save Them

“Climate change is the planet having fever, in response to the human virus.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“The Great Activist (Sonnet)

The world doesn't need another climate summit,
the world needs a climate summon,
and not from some fair-weather activist
that jumps from one trend to another,
like privileged white women hop from
pseudoscience to pseudoscience -

the world needs a climate summon
from the commoners of the world,
everyday ordinary people with
a mundane job and a mundane life -

when these people sense the immediate
emergency that the planet faces,
then no amount of performative policy
will be required anymore,

because there is no greater environmental
stabilizer than commoners jolted to duty -
the greatest activist is the conscientious commoner.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock