Naomi Klein Quotes

No day is alike - I do many other things, and I'm very active in the environmental movement.

I wish my artwork could persuade millions of people to join a global conversation about sustainability.

I wanted to help raise awareness, so I created an environmental foundation called Just Within Reach.

Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.

I'm on the board of the Sierra Club Foundation and am myself a big environmentalist. But the way to make the biggest difference is to change mainstream behavior.

That's what hurts the environmental movement - holding people to a standard they cannot meet. That just pushes people away.

I don't want to pretend that I am a little David Suzuki, because I am not. I'm really different. I have different issues. I'm more interested in the social aspect of environmental issues.

I'm a latecomer to the environmental issue, which for years seemed to me like an excuse for more government regulation. But I can see that in rich societies, voters are paying less attention to economic issues and more to issues of the spirit, including the environment.

I think an old style of addressing environmental problems is ebbing, but the rise of the so-called conservative, political movement in this country is not a trend towards the future but a reaction to this very broad shift that we are undergoing.

There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement.

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

Environmentalism isn't a discipline or specialty. It's a way of seeing our place in the world. And we need everybody to see the world that way. Don't think 'In order to make a difference I have to become an environmentalist.'

There is no larger collective-action problem than the environment. The three biggest lies of the environmental movement is that every little bit helps, you can do your part, and together we can do it.

This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.

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

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.

We can have technology, prosperity, nice homes and cars, but at the same time we must be conscious of what we are dumping into the water, the air and our food.

Many environmental battles are won by delaying a destructive project long enough to change the conversation - to allow new economic, political and social dynamics to emerge.

I've been making pieces dealing with environmental issues at least since 2004; I mean, I did stuff for the Sierra Club and the Alaskan Wildlife Refuge even back in the 1990s. But somewhere a little after 2004, Hummer hits me up. I'm like, 'Are you kidding me?'

The environmental movement does not always have to be about stopping things. It can be about fixing problems.

I am called an environmentalist a lot. But I don't necessarily identify with that word specifically, because of the compartmentalization of the so-called environmental movement.

Inevitably, ecological awareness has this kind of '70s flavour to it.

Journey with me to a true commitment to our environment. Journey with me to the serenity of leaving to our children a planet in equilibrium.

Unless we keep this planet healthy, everything else is for naught.

One of the most important lessons we can glean from the environmental movement is to 'think globally and act locally.'