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We educate the acting community by giving actors climate crisis facts and tools to speak with authority on the subject, sharing what is being done in the artistic community to confront the crisis, and amplifying the unique skills actors possess to advance solutions.
“If we do not begin today to treat our planet with love and respect we will be contributing to the destruction of all innocent species, including our children.”
“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.”
“Where do you wanna live? On Mars or Hawaii? That's what I thought! So act now. Stop climate Change! Or Hawaii will be like Mars soon.”
“The climate crisis, the primary existential issue of our time, allows for remarkable possibilities enfolded in solutions.”
“The time to address climate change is today. (It was actually yesterday but here we are.) The steps individuals can take towards being part of the solution are utterly doable; the steps corporations can take towards a solution are imperative. Not only do we owe a healthy planet to our children, we owe it to the memory of those that have come before us.”
“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."
“There’s no better description of my feelings on the topic than this quote: “We have lived our lives by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. We must change our lives so that it will be possible to live by the contrary assumption, that what is good for the world will be good for us. And that requires that we make the effort to know the world and learn what is good for it.”” - Wendell Berry
“Ignoring climate change always reminds me of the person who saws off the bough on which he sits.”
“69 degrees in Antarctica?! One of the most heartbreaking events of the new decade. Has it become completely beyond our control?”
“The arts are deeply informed by our relationship to nature. We cannot live or create without the bounty and inspiration from Mother Earth, and I pledge to protect Her and educate others about the ravages of climate change.”
“Successful restraint through social distancing in the corona crisis should convince us what we are capable of doing for the planet. Our actions are the planet’s only vaccine. Each nation must be a citizen of the world regarding the corona crisis and the climate crisis. Our grandchildren will thank us”.
“The brilliant blue skies we have been waking up to in Los Angeles during this horrible pandemic have shown us that when given the time and space, our planet can come back to life. We need to make sure we don’t forget the important lessons we have learned during this time, especially when it comes to the environment! Change is possible! We’ve seen it with our own eyes!”
For me, Climate Change is a human rights issue. It forces us as a society to examine closely the depth of the injustices perpetuated by our historical systems of power, dominance and control. In demanding Climate Justice we must be prepared to disrupt and dismantle the systems that continue to violate the most vulnerable, and continue to marginalize indigenous rights and land claims.
“I want my children to remember that I joined the fight to arrest and reverse the trends in climate change. As citizens of the planet, I hope to see them join, and carry forward, that fight.” - Terry Kinney
“We must take significant and decisive action together to stop climate change. I truly believe that the very fact that the solution requires collective and cooperative force is another way of Mother Nature teaching us a lesson of inclusivity and unity. If we ignore this, we will no longer have a home. It’s simple. It’s astounding. We must act now. This instant.”
“The mistake is to think we are destroying the earth. The earth will survive. We are destroying ourselves.”
“The state of the world we seem to be leaving for our kids and theirs keeps me up at night. It’s hard to know how, or, even if, I can forgive us”.
“While the climate crisis effects us all, one of the biggest concerns I have is the disproportionate impact it has on indigenous communities worldwide, who are absolutely on the front line of the crisis. Forest fires, extreme flooding, land erosion and devastating storms threaten their homes, food supplies, medicinal resources and ultimately their very existence”.
