BaCCC/Module 7/Lesson 3/Part 2
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Learn about others who are climate champions
Are you just about set to be a climate champion? Papua New Guinea’s young climate champions Vinzealhar Nen and Ellen Morgan might be inspiring enough. But just in case, here is more motivation and encouragement.
Get acquainted with Fridays for Future. Follow this link to explore the climate strike movement started by Greta Thunberg in 2018, as one teenaged girl sitting alone outside the Swedish parliament during school time with a sign that read “Skolstrejk för Klimatet” – School Strike for the Climate:
If you want to plan a climate strike or civil disobedience, check out:
You can get involved with Climate Generation’s Youth Environmental Activists (YEA!):
Youth Environmental Activists[3]
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And never think there is any lowest age limit for who can get involved (but remember that getting involved has to be the child’s choice) ...
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Before you go any further on this journey, please know that it may, at times, be frustrating and disheartening – even lonely. “Climate anxiety” might sneak up on you. Choose a quotation or two from those below to take with you as “mantras” on your journey, for times when you are feeling low or discouraged. Or find one from a wisdom keeper in your culture or tradition, and hold onto that.
- "Each and every one of us makes a difference, each and every day. And we have a choice: What kind of difference are we going to make? Each one of us must take responsibility for our own lives, and above all, show respect and love for living things around us, especially each other." — Jane Goodall
- "Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing themselves." — Leo Tolstoy
- "You must be the change you wish to see in the world." — Mahatma Gandhi
- "Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything." — George Bernard Shaw
- "When you’re losing hope, it’s because you are not doing enough." — Mark Ruffalo
- "Transformation is an ongoing process that tends to appear ordinary when something extraordinary is taking place." — Suzy Ross
- "You were born an original. Don’t die a copy." — John Mason
- "Those whose have the privilege to know, have the duty to act." — Albert Einstein
- "Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder." — Rumi
- "What we each do seems insignificant, but it is most important that we do it." — Mahatma Gandhi
- You read a book, you meet a person, you have a single experience, and your life is changed in some way. No act, therefore, however small, should be dismissed or ignored." — Howard Zinn, American historian and social activist
I slept and dreamt
that life was joy.
I awoke and saw that life
was service.
I acted and behold,
service was joy.
— Rabindranath Tagore
- "I don’t want to save the world, or others, or even myself . . . I couldn’t even if I wanted to. I want to be present, to be of service. To have courage. To be courage." — Dita Vizoso
- "The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it." — Robert Swan
- "The highest form of knowledge is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another’s world." — Plato
- "In the end we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught." — Baba Dioum
- "There are two options: Do the hardest thing first, or pick the low-hanging fruit." — 21st-century wisdom
- "And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time." —Libba Bray
- "Wherever you go, go with all your heart." — Confucius
- "As you awaken to your divine nature, you’ll begin to appreciate beauty in everything you see, touch and experience." — Wayne Dyer
- "The Burning Age is over. Now it’s time for the Golden Age of renewable energy, which will be safer, cleaner, healthier, more equitable, more peaceful and more beautiful." — Julie Johnston
On how to live our “one wild and precious life”:
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.
— Mary Oliver
- "What does it mean to give myself permission to experience joy even when grief and rage are present? It doesn’t have to be one or the other. It’s always both/and. Cultivating and sustaining joy can make us more resilient and effective in a time of climate change." — Tracey Michae’l Lewis-Giggetts and others
References
- ↑ Fridays for Future, n.d. Fridays for Future
- ↑ Fridays for Future, n.d. Take Action
- ↑ Climate Gen, n.d. Youth Environmental Activists
