Daily Inspiration Quote by Michael Berryman

The line lands with the blunt urgency of someone who’s done waiting for polished speeches. Coming from Michael Berryman, an actor whose career has often been shaped by how bodies are seen and used on screen, the plainspokenness feels earned: no technocratic hedging, no “sustainability” buzzwords, just a clear moral perimeter. “That includes” is doing quiet work here, implying he’s responding to some broader conversation about responsibility or decency. Environmental care isn’t a niche cause in his framing; it’s part of the baseline package of being remotely civilized.

The phrasing is intentionally unsentimental. “Stop polluting the ocean” and “not cutting down the rain forest” are kindergarten-simple imperatives, reducing sprawling policy debates to actions that are, at root, choices. Then he escalates: coral reefs and rain forests aren’t scenic backdrops, they’re life-support systems. By pairing them, he stitches together two ecosystems people tend to treat separately - the charismatic underwater world and the faraway canopy - into a single, fragile infrastructure.

“This earth is toast” is the actor’s kicker: a bit of gallows humor that refuses comfort. It’s slangy, almost comic, and that’s the point. The casualness makes the catastrophe feel closer, like a kitchen mistake you can smell before you see flames. Subtext: we already know what to do; the scandal is our continued refusal to act like we know it.