Naomi Klein Quotes

If we do not act now, we will become spectators to slaughter.

If we don't act now ..., we're going to have a very, very lost generation.

Our planet has a rising fever. If the crib catches fire you don't say: 'Hmmm, how fast is that crib going to burn? Has it ever burned before? Is my baby flame retardant?'

We must act swiftly in order to halt the rate of decay our planet faces.

As signs of climate instability increase, radical and rapid action is becoming ever more urgent.

When your house is on fire—that is not the time to talk

If we don’t tackle these problems soon, they will tackle us.

No more than one or a few decades remain before the chance to avert the threats we now confront will be lost and the prospects for humanity immeasurably diminished.

When the house is on fire, don't tell me what your spiritual gift is. Just grab a hose and put out the fire.

This [climate change] is potentially so dangerous that we have to act strongly. Do we want to play Russian roulette with two bullets or one?

Twenty-five years ago people could be excused for not knowing much, or doing much, about climate change. Today we have no excuse. No more can it be dismissed as science fiction; we are already feeling the effects.

Those who are already feeling the effects of climate change don't have time to deny it - they're busy dealing with it.

I’ve starred in a lot of science fiction movies and, let me tell you something, climate change is not science fiction, this is a battle in the real world, it is impacting us right now.

You could almost say that throughout human history there are people who can either foresee consequences or who are capable of looking for information and predicting the consequences will happen, but the vast majority of people won't respond to climate change until their city is underwater, food supply is disrupted or everyone around them is dying of zoonotic disease. It's almost like someone dealing with an addiction, like you hope that the person can overcome the addiction before the addiction kills them.

Let's unite our impassioned voices to combat climate change. The time is now.

Climate change: I say the debate is over. We know the science, we see the threat and we know that the time for action is now

The insistence on complete certainty about the full details of global warming-the most serious threat we have ever faced-is actually an effort to avoid facing the awful, uncomfortable truth: that we must act boldly, decisively, comprehensively, and quickly, even before we know every last detail about the crisis. Those who continue to argue that the appropriate response is merely additional research are simply seeking to camouflage timidity or protect their vested interest in the status quo.

Those who deny the science or choose excuses over action are playing with fire.

The science [of global warming] is beyond dispute... Delay is no longer an option. Denial is no longer an acceptable response

If someone is getting every decision wrong, that's when you need to act, and at that point it'll be painfully aware to everyone.

There is still time to act and avoid a worsening climate but we are wasting precious time.

If enough of us stop looking away and decide that climate change is a crisis worthy of Marshall Plan levels of response, then it will become one.

Your Honour, unless your Honour, without a moment's loss of time, makes sail for the nearest shore, this is a doomed ship, and her name is the Coffin!

When you're running down the street on fire, people get out of your way!

If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not have a real discussion of the emergency of climate change and why in fact we need a Green New Deal type national mobilization at the scale of a wartime mobilization in order to address this emergency.