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Climate Change Quotes
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“Entering the 21st century, humanity has been living in a world with a footprint greater than the planet’s capacity. Clearly, we cannot continue to live beyond the Earth’s means… we must alter the trajectory, the thinking, and the practices that have placed us in this mission critical state.”
– This Spaceship Earth Houle and Rumage
“The more our world functions like the natural world, the more likely we are to endure on this home that is ours, but not ours alone.”
– Janine Benyus
“Nature shrinks as capital grows. The growth of the market cannot solve the very crisis it creates.”
– Vandana Shiva, Soil Not Oil
“We are in a changing, dynamic, planetary situation that has never existed during modern humanity’s time on Earth. We are convinced that this calls for a new consciousness, a planetary crew consciousness.”
– This Spaceship Earth Houle and Rumage
“What mankind must know is that human beings cannot live without Mother Earth, but the planet can live without humans. We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.”
– Margaret Mead
“Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet, we all breathe the same air, we all cherish our children’s futures, and we are all mortal.”
– John F. Kennedy
“The scientific worldview is essentially a reductive materialist philosophy that says if you want to understand something, you take it apart in little pieces, and then you see how the pieces fit together, and then you understand something. But when you start looking at a complex system, you can take it apart into little pieces, but those little pieces will not tell you how the whole thing works.”
– Dean Radin, Chief Scientist, Institute of Noetic Sciences
“In our daily choices, we make things better or we make things worse. Our actions are our beliefs. We assume an inexhaustible supply of resources and commodities, so we consume them at an extravagant rate.”
– This Spaceship Earth Houle and Rumage
We often preoccupy ourselves with symptoms, whereas if we went to the root cause of the problem we would be able to overcome the problems once and for all.
-Wangari Maathai
“For peace to reign on earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first.”
– Immanuel Kant
