"In the age of the toxic commons, not one of us, not even the environmentally privileged ones like me, remains unaffected by toxicants."

"We cannot adequately understand contemporary politics through the paradigm of static states and stationary citizens."

"Humanity is an errant species; perhaps this is why it is a planetary species, dreaming of becoming interplanetary."

"The strange weather that we’ve been hearing about is now here, speaking in a new political forum that humans have yet to join seriously."

"The idea that all humans should have rights is good, but the idea that only humans should have rights is bad."

"The incommensurability between 'authentic' political thought and ecological concerns can no longer be defended."

"It is no coincidence that sacrifice zones fall on Indigenous land and on places inhabited by majority Black populations."

"In a world on fire, is there time for disobedience?"

"Despite the dominance of a sensibility that hyperseparates humans and nature, it is far from being universal."

"We may be on the same boat, but not everybody is treated equally – and some are jettisoned at the first gust of wind."

"Current governments have demonstrated their inability to manage even a full baby-step towards carbon neutrality."

"Where and how we are situated and impacted by the shifting and shrinking climate niche is not incidental."