Quotes by Avi Lewis

Avi Lewis

Catastrophic damage from climate-driven extreme weather is now an annual reality. The cost of not dealing with it will be much greater than if we try to pre-empt some of those disaster cleanups by actually investing in the shift now.

Disaster

Reality

Trying

Film ‘This Changes Everything’ is not a sad story. It’s not a slit-your-wrists climate film. It’s a story about people who are making change happen.

Climate

People

Stories

Find an organization, shoot them an email, call them up, find them on Facebook and say “Hey, I want to volunteer.” And that first step could lead to a whole life of engagement. It could be a pretty exciting ride.

Organization

Volunteer

I personally feel very strongly that what it will take is not more disasters, it’s that what it will take is a vision of the future that is better than our present.

Disaster

Feels

Visions Of The Future

I think Canada deserves a forthrightly left electoral alternative. I don’t see the advantage for our democracy in having a number of parties crowded in the centre. The Liberals are experts at co-opting left language and framings during campaigns, and historically, we know they don’t govern like that.

Democracy

Party

Thinking

I think that kind of urgency is what makes this stage of the climate movement really different from what it was even a few years ago when it was much more of the professionalized NGOs lobbying behind closed doors and maybe having a march now and then.

Doors

Thinking

Years

I’m really changed by my research. This book [“This Changes Everything” ]is very different from what I set out to write.

Book

Different

Writing

I’ve always kind of hated films about climate change.

Climate

Film

Kind

If we could get proportional representation and open up roles for smaller parties in coalition governments, we could start intentionally breaking down the cult of personality that is one of the most distorting things about our electoral system in Canada. We had a constellation of social actors behind the Leap Manifesto. And we created something bigger than ourselves.

Breaking Down

Party

Personality

If you have a culture based on hunting and fishing and all the animals are disappearing and the fish are sick, then you can’t live traditionally. Then your treaty is being violated. Obviously there are degrees of choice in terms of that decision to fight.

Animal

Fighting

Hunting

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Fighting

Film

Hunting

Inequality

Kind

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Party

People

Personality

Phones

Politician

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Reality

Stories

Thinking

Trying

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Quotes by Avi Lewis

Avi Lewis

Catastrophic damage from climate-driven extreme weather is now an annual reality. The cost of not dealing with it will be much greater than if we try to pre-empt some of those disaster cleanups by actually investing in the shift now.

Film ‘This Changes Everything’ is not a sad story. It’s not a slit-your-wrists climate film. It’s a story about people who are making change happen.

Find an organization, shoot them an email, call them up, find them on Facebook and say “Hey, I want to volunteer.” And that first step could lead to a whole life of engagement. It could be a pretty exciting ride.

I personally feel very strongly that what it will take is not more disasters, it’s that what it will take is a vision of the future that is better than our present.

I think that kind of urgency is what makes this stage of the climate movement really different from what it was even a few years ago when it was much more of the professionalized NGOs lobbying behind closed doors and maybe having a march now and then.

I’m really changed by my research. This book [“This Changes Everything” ]is very different from what I set out to write.

I’ve always kind of hated films about climate change.

If you have a culture based on hunting and fishing and all the animals are disappearing and the fish are sick, then you can’t live traditionally. Then your treaty is being violated. Obviously there are degrees of choice in terms of that decision to fight.

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