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Climate (Words of Change series)

Powerful Voices, Inspiring Ideas

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Author Christina Limpert
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On sale Mar 30, 2021 | 160 Pages | 978-1-63217-378-2
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With climate change at the forefront of current discussion, Words of Change: CLIMATE offers a curated collection of thought-provoking quotes and passages from the writings and speeches of activists in the environmental community, with a focus on diverse and previously unheard voices.

Compiled by social scientist and researcher Tina Limpert, this collection of stirring words is intended to enlighten, to prompt change, to provide encouragement, and to deepen readers' conviction. Celebrating activism, focusing on solutions, and avoiding apathy and pessimism, this book is call to action. The back matter includes a brief bio for each person quoted to provide context for their life and work.
Dr. Christina Limpert is a multidisciplinary social scientist and qualitative researcher at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry who favors working across disciplines in the social and biophysical sciences. Her scholarly work investigates sites of informal education and examines the role of culture and society in shaping human thought and action, especially where environmental behaviors, attitudes, and practices are concerned. Dr. Limpert teaches and writes about EcoCinema and popular culture, gender, identity, and power, sociology, critical pedagogy, and qualitative research. She began her appointment as an Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, General Education Division, in the Fall of 2018. Additionally, she is the Director of the Writing, Rhetoric, and Communications Program.
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"The whole world is, to me, very much "alive"—all the little growing things, even the rocks. I can't look at a swell bit of grass and earth, for instance, without feeling the essential life—the things going on—within them. The same goes for a mountain, or a bit of the ocean, or a magnificent piece of old wood."--Ansel Adams

"We don't have to keep hurting the planet. As we do our slow fashion push, the reality is [that] with fast fashion, if you're not paying for it, someone else is."--Rosario Dawson

"We don’t become mothers to hand over something that is diminishing to our children."--Christina Figueres 

"The way that we talk about climate change is too compartmentalised, too siloed from the other crises we face . . . the crisis of rising white supremacy, the various forms of nationalism, and the fact that so many people are being forced from their homelands, and the war that is waged on our attention spans. These are intersecting and interconnecting crises and so the solutions have to be as well."--Naomi Klein

"A society based on conquest is not sustainable. This is a worldview that destroys biodiversity." --Winona Laduke

"The biggest challenge we face is shifting human consciousness, not saving the planet. The planet doesn’t need saving. We do."--Xiuhtezcatl Martinez
Copyright © 2021 by Christina Limpert. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
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With climate change at the forefront of current discussion, Words of Change: CLIMATE offers a curated collection of thought-provoking quotes and passages from the writings and speeches of activists in the environmental community, with a focus on diverse and previously unheard voices.

Compiled by social scientist and researcher Tina Limpert, this collection of stirring words is intended to enlighten, to prompt change, to provide encouragement, and to deepen readers' conviction. Celebrating activism, focusing on solutions, and avoiding apathy and pessimism, this book is call to action. The back matter includes a brief bio for each person quoted to provide context for their life and work.

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Dr. Christina Limpert is a multidisciplinary social scientist and qualitative researcher at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry who favors working across disciplines in the social and biophysical sciences. Her scholarly work investigates sites of informal education and examines the role of culture and society in shaping human thought and action, especially where environmental behaviors, attitudes, and practices are concerned. Dr. Limpert teaches and writes about EcoCinema and popular culture, gender, identity, and power, sociology, critical pedagogy, and qualitative research. She began her appointment as an Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, General Education Division, in the Fall of 2018. Additionally, she is the Director of the Writing, Rhetoric, and Communications Program.
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"The whole world is, to me, very much "alive"—all the little growing things, even the rocks. I can't look at a swell bit of grass and earth, for instance, without feeling the essential life—the things going on—within them. The same goes for a mountain, or a bit of the ocean, or a magnificent piece of old wood."--Ansel Adams

"We don't have to keep hurting the planet. As we do our slow fashion push, the reality is [that] with fast fashion, if you're not paying for it, someone else is."--Rosario Dawson

"We don’t become mothers to hand over something that is diminishing to our children."--Christina Figueres 

"The way that we talk about climate change is too compartmentalised, too siloed from the other crises we face . . . the crisis of rising white supremacy, the various forms of nationalism, and the fact that so many people are being forced from their homelands, and the war that is waged on our attention spans. These are intersecting and interconnecting crises and so the solutions have to be as well."--Naomi Klein

"A society based on conquest is not sustainable. This is a worldview that destroys biodiversity." --Winona Laduke

"The biggest challenge we face is shifting human consciousness, not saving the planet. The planet doesn’t need saving. We do."--Xiuhtezcatl Martinez
Copyright © 2021 by Christina Limpert. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.

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