“Trust science,”

“My homeland of Brazil boasts not only an incredible culture but the responsibility of housing the majority of the “lungs of the earth”. It’s devastating to see how quickly the Amazon Rainforest is being destroyed. At this rate by 2030 more than a quarter of the Amazon biome will be without trees. Why is that so devastating? Here are four out of many reasons:

1. Nearly half of the worlds animal species live there and would be destroyed.

2. Many of the drugs we use today to treat diseases like Glaucoma, Leukemia, heart disease among many others come from plants in the Amazon. 70% of them help fight cancer.

3. Our air quality will drop significantly. Right now the rainforest stores carbon dioxide and recycles it into oxygen we can breathe.

4. 30 million indigenous people take shelter there and would be displaced.”

“I’m gonna go out on a limb and say I feel like Einstein was a lot smarter than me and so was Fermi and Currie and Newton. If you don’t believe in science ..because “science is based on theory and theory is just that, theory“ - then maybe you shouldn’t use basically everything that you use (cars, toothpaste, computers, medicine, electricity) because apparently it doesn’t exist or shouldn’t or couldn’t because all was originated through theory and hypothesis...97% of the scientists who study our climate basically all agree on the theory of climate change and that climate change is a big problem for our future, if we don’t do something... now.

I’m going to give way to the people that are smarter than me , call me crazy.”

“How much louder can the environment scream at us, before we listen? It’s melting, raging, storming, heated cries are the Earth’s way of begging us to hear her, so that we will work together to do something. She’s in pain. Our very desire to want to help, is the medicine needed. We got this! Come join us.”

“Recently I came home to Australia for the first time since the enormous wild fires of 2019. Standing in the mountains you would normally see thick and lush forests all around, now all I saw for miles and miles were the blackened tree trunks of the Blue Mountain Ash and melted glass. The Co2 produced by these wild fires was equal half our emissions for the year here in Australia - Almost 200m Tonnes. These wild fires demonstrated to the developed world at large the immense perils we are in due to Climate Change. It highlighted the reality that it is not just island nations, or people in foreign lands who will be affected by this, we cannot disassociate from this, we are all in this together and it affects us all.”

“We are living in a climate emergency. Using the earth as our personal ATM has robbed us of a life free of increased natural disasters, toxic air, contaminated water, food insecurity, and countless other terrifying symptoms. I want to be able to grow old on this planet. I want to feel safe to bring children into this world. The time to act was 40 years ago. Act now! “

“The moment I became a parent climate change morphed from a political issue to a personal emergency. Act now, start simply because every action can make a difference.”

“This time we are living in demands that we all think about what we can do to make a positive contribution to society.  Our actions are the legacy we leave  to those who come after us.”

“Our planet is talking to us... let’s listen before it’s too late.”

“When the earth is sick, the animals will begin to disappear. When that happens, the Warriors of the Rainbow will come to save them.” —Chief Seattle”

“When people refuse to accept the fact that climate change is real, I remind them that it’s raining ashes in Los Angeles.”

“These last months of collective quarantine have given us a glimpse of the world without us: the sky is clear again, the birds are singing more, the earth is rumbling less with billions of vehicles taken off the roads. For too long, we’ve been the main, and sometimes the only character of our own play. Let us seize this moment and make lasting and permanent environmental changes that allow us to live in harmony with our world. Let’s define a new and sustainable normal.”

"The climate crisis is an urgent “macro” issue; it supersedes, encompasses, and effects nearly all other issues we face. We know the facts, we understand the solutions, now we need to act on them."