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Climate Change Quotes
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“Climate change is analogous to Lincoln and slavery, or Churchill and Nazism: it’s not the kind of thing where you can compromise.”
– James Hansen
“We are CREW, not passengers. All of us are at risk on a degraded, polluted and stressed planet.”
– This Spaceship Earth Houle and Rumage
“We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost’s familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road – the one less traveled by – offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth.”
– Rachel Carson
“We need healthy forests if we want to protect our climate. As the climate changes, forests become more vulnerable to insect outbreaks, droughts and wildfires. Simultaneously, when our forests are destroyed, their carbon is released back into the atmosphere, further impacting climate change. It’s a horrifying feedback loop.”
– Chris Noth
“Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.”
– Carl Bard
“People don’t need enormous cars. They need respect. They don’t need closets full of clothes, they need variety and beauty. People need community, challenge, acknowledgement, joy. To try to fill these needs with material things sets up an unquenchable appetite for false solutions to real problems. A society that can find non-material ways to satisfy real needs would require much less energy and materials, and would provide much more fulfillment.”
– Dana Meadows
“There is a developing urgency around humanity’s relationship to Earth. What had been speculation has now become fact. What had been theorized, is now being experienced.”
– This Spaceship Earth Houle and Rumage
“Disasters are beginning to affect communities at an alarming pace, the result of increased development in harm’s way as well as changing climate conditions. Our current natural disaster policy framework focuses heavily on responding to disasters, rather than putting protective measures in place to reduce our vulnerability and limit a disaster’s impact.”
– SmarterSafer
“Human ingenuity may make various inventions… but it will never devise any invention more beautiful, nor more simple, nor more to the purpose than Nature does; because in her inventions nothing is wanting and nothing is superfluous.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
“In the course of history, there comes a time when humanity is called to shift to a new level of consciousness, to reach a higher moral ground.”
– Wangari Maathai
