Environmentalists From Canada

"Canada must be focused on containing this clear and present danger to our nation and the rule of law."

"I’ve received hundreds of messages of concern and outrage from Canadians that a convicted felon, sexual predator, and a man who threatened our nation’s sovereignty, is being allowed into our country."

"Donald Trump poses a clear threat to American democracy, to Canadian sovereignty, and to the international rule of law."

"Canada can no longer view the United States as an ally. We know that Donald Trump doesn’t believe in liberal democracy."

"We’re not talking about creeping fascism here. This is full on police state tyranny from the gangster President Donald Trump."

"In these interviews I got a privileged glimpse into his century — and what a century. In mathematical terms, the population-savvy would have noted that 1910 to 2010 represents one of the steepest trajectories in rates of extinction the world has ever experienced, rivaling the . In his lifetime the number of humans had escalated from 1.75 billion to just under 7 billion, consuming proportionally more resources than in the past ten millennia to achieve a rising standard of living but also an obscene inequity. In poetic terms, Cowan the photographer and writer had captured the beauty and diversity of the wildlife and landscapes devoured. The loss of them was profound. What captured my imagination was that he was both early witness to and participant in these changes. He was the last of the naturalist-hunters and the first of the alarmed scientists."

"There is no doubt in my mind about which type of vulture I want attendant upon my death. Any funeral industry catalogue will provide you with a long list of the unwelcome vultures. A book on the birds of the west coast will supply you with the one species I would be happy pick over my bones — the . There are few selfless acts toward the natural world available to human beings and the one that would cause us the least inconvenience is illegal — the simple act of being consumed by nature's prime scavengers."

"The in had disappeared by around 1983. They just suddenly stopped. They were just nowhere."

"LPGA is my dream, and it’s the highest stage for professional golfers. My goal is to put out my best performance to show myself and to show the people that believe in me that I'm able to be performing well on that stage, I will be also very proud because I'm Chinese player and I will be proud to follow their steps. To be on Tour with Ruoning and Xiyu would be really exciting for me.”"

"“If we want to continue living on this planet, we have to solve the plastic pollution problem and we have to solve it within our generation. Humans have the incredible ability to innovate to survive at times when it matters. Now is one of those times.”"

"We found the most efficient degraders came from the local landfill.” Nature was indeed evolving ways of dealing with the problem, one that we could someday use"

"We are providing a service to process this material at a price that is comparable to [the cost of sending it to] landfills,”"

"I want to thank Tony and Jeanne Pritzker and UCLA for considering us for this prestigious award, which could help us surpass our last technical hurdle before moving across the finish line,”"

"This technology can become the pillar of what would enable people around the world to mine landfills for plastics as a new carbon source,” Wang said. “We don’t have to drill for oil anymore to make the things around us.”"

"Plastics are useful, but the downside of this convenience is that plastics cause serious problems like the destruction of ecosystems.”"

"“Indigenous Climate Action is created by and led by Indigenous Peoples to organize an Indigenous response to both the drivers of and the impacts of climate change, and real solutions for a future we can all benefit from. Now more than ever true leadership stemming from the original carriers of Indigenous traditional knowledge (ITK) is needed at forefront the global movement for climate justice,”"

"When addressing climate change issues, we need to look deep into the root causes and come up with mitigation and adaptation measures."

"“Existing Indigenous climate action can be seen in the success of communities challenging industrial development[i], and asserting Indigenous sovereignty that acts as a buffer to climate change impacts,”"

"Human activities are the main contributors to climate change"

""Indigenous communities across Canada are already leaders in climate mitigation, adaptation and building real solutions. Many of the solutions and strategies created by Indigenous communities aren’t always apparent or recognized, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t as vital.”"

"I have committed my life to fighting for climate justice, this is our planet, and we are all responsible for taking care of it"

"“This coupled with Indigenous-owned renewable energy development[ii] and the innumerable community based monitoring and land guardian programs[iii] ensures community and cultural survival in an era of extreme climate change.”"

"‘My success is in my students’ achievements.’"

"... visitor to take the dugout back to Camp Leakey for help. My repeated blows had no effect on Gundul; but neither did he fight back very aggressively. I began to realize that Gundul did not intend to harm the cook, but had something else in mind. The cook stopped struggling. "It's all right," she murmured. She lay back in my arms, with Gundul on top of her. Gundul was very calm and deliberate. He raped the cook. As he moved rhythmically back and forth, his eyes rolled upward to the heavens. I was in shock. I felt as though this were happening to other people somewhere else, and I was watching from a distance. I have no idea how much time passed."

"I had never seen Gundul threaten or assault a woman, although he frequently charged male assistants. The cook was screaming hysterically. I thought, 'He's trying to kill her.' I began to realize that Gundul did not intend to harm the cook, but had something else in mind. The cook stopped struggling. 'It's all right,' she murmured. She lay back in my arms, with Gundul on top of her. Gundul was very calm and deliberate. He raped the cook. As he moved rhythmically back and forth, his eyes rolled upward to the heavens. I was in shock. Gundul let the cook go, stood up, and soundlessly, moved off the feeding platform into the trees. It was over just like that."

"The lessons that are currently before us, should we choose to really integrate and learn from them, the lessons we've learned from COVID could directly apply to climate change and how we actually address a real emergency…We've learned that we are all totally interconnected in an extremely profound way, not only with our neighbors, with our communities, but also with people in London, people in China, we are just totally undeniably interconnected."

"I find so much inspiration in Indigenous cultures around this planet. Right now, there are so many cultures that can show us different ways of being human. And they have existed for thousands of years. Indigenous people, for them, the extinction event that we are just as a colonial society coming on into awareness about-- for them, it's been happening for 500 years."

"all the things that are right for the planet are more expensive, or more difficult, take more time. I mean, our whole society is built towards destroying ecosystems, essentially...we need systems change, and we need our governments to help us out here and make being a Canadian not congruent with destroying the climate."

"I always say that we’ve got to do two things. One, we have to look at our personal lives, and how we can reduce our climate emissions, how we can reduce our ecological footprint. That's the stuff that's our homework we all have to do. But we also have to get political...we have seen an increased awareness of Canadians. We do have an election where all parties are at least addressing the climate. That's new. So we are seeing a shift in awareness. And I think we're seeing in the climate strikes and marches that have been happening over the last few years, we're seeing that people are realizing they have to get political."

"We got to make sure we are involved and realize that now is the moment and we have agency, what we do is going to impact all of our lives in our children's lives."

"If you don't get a vaccine, if you don't wash your hands, if you don't pay attention, your actions could have devastating effects. And this is the same for climate change. So I think right now, there's a huge opportunity for, you know, all of us individuals to take advantage of what we are learning right now, and apply it properly to the climate crisis that no one can deny is happening."

"COVID has changed our conversation about well being. Now what we're talking about in terms of well being, of mental wellness, physical wellness, it's very different from even a year ago. And so I think that we now have a different understanding of how we want to be living, and it's totally congruent to where we need to be living if we're going to address the climate crisis."

"This aged economic system is out of date!"

"I known I'm only a child, yet I know we're all in the this together and should act as one single world towards one single goal"

"If you don’t know how to fix it, please, stop breaking it."

"Our current economic system is promoting the car, one car per person, it's promoting highways, it's promoting the fossil fuel industry, it's promoting very individualistic society."

"We Canadians think that Canada is a modern, well informed democracy. We look down our noses at the dumbed down content on Fox News and CNN, without noticing that we are rapidly heading in the same direction."

"Of all the deteriorating aspects of Canadian democracy, the lack of concern over the ability of the national police force to interfere in elections is the one that most suggests Third World politics."

"Little wonder that the dumbing down of the political discourse, the attack ads and war rooms reign triumphant. The fifth estate is an enabler in this addiction to political trivia in place of reasoned debate."

"The role of the individual MP has been sidelined by the power of the Cabinet, and now by the PM alone."

"I participate, therefore I am."

"Countries with high voting rates also have high levels of political knowledge."

"The increasing prominence of a presidential-style prime minister is steadily denigrating the traditions and institutions of Canadian democracy."

"Three of my ancestors signed the Declaration of Independence. It's just that any system of government has it pluses and minuses and it's important to understand the system of government you do live under so that you can protect it."

"You can’t deal with an issue like climate change if you basically abandon a healthy democracy and allow a corporatist culture to make the decisions. So you need engaged citizens, and you need Occupy,” she says. “You need people who have never seen themselves as political to become political. We need maybe 15 to 20 percent of Canadians to become really engaged and demand better. And then we’ll get it.”"

"“I’d rather have no Green seats and Stephen Harper lose, than a full caucus that stares across the floor at Stephen Harper as prime minister, because his policies are too dangerous,” she told the Toronto Star."

"“C-10 is such a nightmare, because we’re going to have a ton of amendments,” she says. “And I can’t present them unless I’m physically there.”"

"“I was raised to be extremely productive,” May recalls. “That was how my mom would put it; she’d say, ‘I had a very productive day.’ ”"

"“Strategically, as leader of the Green Party and the first elected Green in Parliament, I didn’t want to be in a renovated bank building,” she says. “I wanted to be on Parliament Hill, in a building that screams out at you, this is Parliament!”"

"Heckling “tunes people out of their democracy,” she says"