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Climate Change Quotes
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“The most important thing about Spaceship Earth… an instruction manual did not come with it.”
– R. Buckminster Fuller
“We are in a changing, dynamic, planetary situation that calls for a planetary crew consciousness.”
– This Spaceship Earth Houle and Rumage
“The 35 billion tonnes of CO2 put in the atmosphere in 2013 is still active in the environment, as is the 35 billion tonnes released in 2014. The current model of CO2 reduction is really a lower rate of increase of CO2 in the environment, not a true subtraction from the total.”
– This Spaceship Earth Houle and Rumage
“We should try to be the parents of our future, rather than the offspring of our past.”
– Miguel de Unamuno, Spanish essayist and philosopher
“Earth is not a platform for human life. It’s a living being. We’re not on it, but part of it. Its health is our health.”
– Thomas Moore
“All businesses are dependent upon natural resources. They all use some combination of air, water, energy, raw materials, and/or refined, processed natural resources. A simple and direct translation of this reality is that the only way to have a viable long-term economy is to have a healthy long-term ecology.”
– This Spaceship Earth Houle and Rumage
“Spaceship earth is where all humans live… it has a finite amount of resources so sustainability and efficiency are increasingly important.”
– This Spaceship Earth Houle and Rumage
“Another world is not only possible, she is already on her way. On quiet days I can hear her breathing.”
– Arundhati Roy, Indian author
“Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.”
– Juvenal
“We have entered the Shift Age: the time of transition in the evolution of human consciousness from separateness to a planetary frame of reference. We all must become aware and active crew members on Spaceship Earth.”
– This Spaceship Earth Houle and Rumage
