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Climate Change Quotes
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“Ever since I saw our solar system model in first grade, I have been hyper-aware that we live on a planet, not just a street, just a town, just a country. Every human needs to remember that, for more than ecological reasons, for social and political reasons as well.”
– Carole Martin
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
– R. Buckminster Fuller
“While spaceships and space stations can be refueled and resupplied from the home planet; that is not an option for Spaceship Earth.”
– This Spaceship Earth Houle and Rumage
“We are all living together on a single planet, which is threatened by our own actions. We need some kind of global cooperation. Nationalism is just not on the right level to tackle the problems, whether it’s climate change or whether it’s technological disruption.”
– Yuval Noah Harari
“Our educational institutions need to see their purpose not as training personnel for exploiting the earth, but as guiding students toward an intimate relationship with the earth.”
– Thomas Berry
“Careful stewardship of Spaceship Earth restores the opportunities and provides for the quality of life we want our children and grandchildren to have.”
– This Spaceship Earth Houle and Rumage
“There is nothing so difficult to plan, more uncertain of success, nor dangerous to manage than the creation of a new order of things. For the initiator has the enmity of all those who would profit by the preservation of the old institutions and merely lukewarm defenders in those who would gain by the new ones.”
– Niccolò Machiavelli
“No matter how far you have gone on the wrong road, turn back.”
– Turkish Proverb
“Taking bold action on climate change simply makes good business sense. It’s also the right thing to do for people and the planet. Setting a net-zero greenhouse gas emissions target will drive innovation, grow jobs, build prosperity, and secure a better world for what will soon be nine billion people.”
Sir Richard Branson
“We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.”
Buckminster Fuller
