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Climate Change Quotes
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“We need to move from Mutually Assured Destruction to Mutually Ensured Survival. The issue before us is not – can we change? The issue we are facing is – will we change?”
– This Spaceship Earth Houle and Rumage
“As we continue to alter the physical, chemical and biological properties of the planet by burning fossil fuels, intact nature is one of the only things that can save us. Pristine wilderness is a hedge against our collective ignorance.”
– David Suzuki
“If it can’t be reduced, reused, repaired, rebuilt, refurbished, refinished, resold, recycled or composted, then it should be restricted, redesigned or removed from production.”
– Pete Seeger
“We are the first and only species on Earth to know that we have a time frame of existence – and the potential ability to lengthen or shorten it.”
– This Spaceship Earth Houle and Rumage
“Hope remains, only in the most difficult task of all: to reconsider everything from the ground up, so as to shape a living society inside a dying one.”
– Albert Camus
“Orbiting the earth in the spaceship, I saw how beautiful our planet is. People, let us preserve and increase this beauty, not destroy it!”
– Yuri Gagarin, Russian cosmonaut and first man in space
“We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully, nor for much longer, unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.”
– R. Buckminster Fuller
“The rate at which we’re injecting CO2 into the atmosphere today is ten times faster than it was during the End-Permian era (aka The Great Dying). Rates matter. We’re creating a very difficult environment for life to adapt. We’re imposing change ten times faster than the worst events in Earth’s history.”
– Lee Kump, professor of Geosciences at Pennsylvania State University
“Only in economics is endless expansion seen as a virtue. In biology, it is called cancer.”
– David Pilling
“25 years ago people could be excused for not knowing much, or doing much, about climate change. Today, we have no excuse.”
– Desmond Tutu
