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Climate Change Quotes
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“Forgiving ourselves can only happen if we stop our old ways of thinking and acting. We have to face forward. We have to face the future, and create future facing ways of thinking and acting.”
– This Spaceship Earth Houle and Rumage
“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, but 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
“No matter how far you have gone on the wrong road, turn back.”
– Turkish Proverb
“We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.”
Buckminster Fuller
“Everyone on Earth today is down-wind or down-stream from someone else, so a problem anywhere on the planet, in some way, is a problem for all on the planet.”
– This Spaceship Earth Houle and Rumage
“Individually we are one drop. Together we are an ocean.”
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Japanese writer
