The United States had eight years of Barack Obama. He made it incredibly clear that he was a right-wing Democrat. He cited Ronald Reagan lovingly in every stump speech for the last six months of the presidential 2008 campaign. And… — Avi Lewis Copy Share Image
So many people are on the front lines of this fossil fuel frenzy. It is infused with a sense of urgency. — Avi Lewis Copy Share
Once you feel the desire to engage, think about what you're good at and what you can contribute. It's about breaking down the idea… — Avi Lewis Copy Share
One of the things that could be exciting about this next phase of Canadian politics is if we could maybe have co-leaders. — Avi Lewis Copy Share
If you spend a lot of time with activists, as I have, they're just ordinary people who instead of Netflix are getting together in… — Avi Lewis Copy Share
If we could get proportional representation and open up roles for smaller parties in coalition governments, we could start intentionally breaking down the cult… — Avi Lewis Copy Share
The book and the film [This Changes Everything] fed into each other in ways that were compounding and very exciting. The pain was shared. — Avi Lewis Copy Share
Catastrophic damage from climate-driven extreme weather is now an annual reality. The cost of not dealing with it will be much greater than if… — Avi Lewis Copy Share
We're dealing with a crisis of inequality, of joblessness, of underemployment. — Avi Lewis Copy Share
Film 'This Changes Everything' is not a sad story. It's not a slit-your-wrists climate film. It's a story about people who are making change… — Avi Lewis Copy Share
The thing that our system is designed to do is keep us alone and isolated in our little consumer bubble. And the most revolutionary… — Avi Lewis Copy Share
If you have a culture based on hunting and fishing and all the animals are disappearing and the fish are sick, then you can't… — Avi Lewis Copy Share
What we face in Canada are multiple overlapping crises. We have the climate crisis, which is screaming down on us - all of the… — Avi Lewis Copy Share
I think that kind of urgency is what makes this stage of the climate movement really different from what it was even a few… — Avi Lewis Copy Share
