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I liked to hang around my mom's beauty salon, watching her do hair. ”
Cutting down a forest for timber adds to GDP, but what we don't record is the loss to our wealth in terms of natural resources. ”
To reduce gaps between men and women, we will need to change the way people think, behave, and relate to each other. ”
Tackling the extreme gap between the rich and the poor and tackling climate change is part of the same struggle. ”
Inequality, climate change, and conflict are evicting millions from their homes. But these perils are being met with 'anti-answers' such as nationalism, closed borders, lies, and hatred. ”
We treat a planet at crisis point as an externality that can be shunted into a future generation. We continue to act as if we had the natural resources of several planets, not one. ”
The discrimination of women and girls goes to the core of any and all analyses of the world's economic, political, and environmental problems. ”
I had a somewhat religious upbringing. Not strict, but it was there, and I'm kind of thankful for that. If you grow up just watching MTV, that's its own form of religion, and it's not even based on happiness or communal responsibility. I mean, try to construct a worldview out of that. ”
Being in a rock band, I feel a certain responsibility to have a weird haircut. I mean, who else gets to do that? ”
On the contrary a film can promote the idea of change without any political message whatsoever but in its form and language can tell people that they can change their lives and contribute to progressive changes in the world. ”