Severn Cullis-Suzuki Quotes

But social justice and the environment are very tied together in my head.

Environmental justice is vitally important to the mission of Our Revolution.

I'm a social justice supporter, but there is no social justice on a dead planet.

I have long understood that climate change is not only an environmental issue - it is a humanitarian, economic, health, and justice issue as well.

It is futile to seek solutions to environmental disturbances without considering them from a broad perspective that encompasses the factors underlying world poverty and the inequities within and among nations.

We have to prove to the disinherited majority of the world that ecology and conservation will not work against their interest but will bring an improvement in their lives.

I think I'm becoming a climate activist.

I was at Earth Summit in Rio 20 years ago... I was only 12 years old. And when I was speaking to the U.N. I was fighting for my future.

Tackling the extreme gap between the rich and the poor and tackling climate change is part of the same struggle.

We had some major successes and we did so because the country embraced the spirit of Earth Day and embraced this concept that we have to have forward-looking, visionary environmental policy and energy policy in this country.

Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

Urban residents, most of them middle class, have a much better sense of their environmental rights, and they're willing to take to the streets.

Raising awareness on the most pressing environmental issues of our time is more important than ever.

After 'An Inconvenient Truth' came out, a lot of people came to me with their causes, and there are a lot - water, poverty, and so many, many more.

I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.

I've been a supporter of green initiatives for years. I've been paying more and more attention to it, you know, with three kids. I thought it was tragic when the Kyoto Protocol was killed by the U.S. It was sort of a call to action.

Personally, I don't even read bummer news stories about the environment because it makes me feel helpless to fix anything and reminds me that the general population doesn't treat these issues as an important part of our political life.

Helping people understand the impact of key environmental and human issues worldwide is something that I'm passionate about. CNN's 'Going Green' series of specials are engaging viewers around the world through important messages of conservation and hope.

For all of the hurtling towards climate change, there's also a lot more understanding of it than there was when we were kids. They don't call environmentalists tree huggers any more, so there's hope!

Climate change is moving faster than we are, but we don't give up because we know that climate action is the only path.

We have to have a planet to pass on to the next generation, and these issues of climate change and climate justice and the disproportionate burdens that communities of color actually bear from our damaging climate is a huge issue.

Since the early 1990s, I had been very worried about the state of the environment, and by the end of that decade, I realized I needed to do something about it.

Real environmental change depends on us. We can't wait for our leaders. We have to focus on what our own responsibilities are and how we can make the change happen.

I'm not a politically-charged person. I don't want to be. I don't want to talk about politics and I don't want to sing about politics, but if you're talking about environmental issues then you can't talk about one without the other.