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Climate Change Quotes
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“We are the first generation to know we are destroying our planet, and the last one that can do anything about it.”
– Tanya Steele, chief executive of the World Wildlife Fund
“What we are really looking at is minimizing human suffering, catastrophic economic losses and large scale, geo-political disruption.”
– This Spaceship Earth Houle and Rumage
“It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.”
– Josiah Charles Stamp
“Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors.”
– Jonas Salk
“Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth… these are one and the same fight. We must connect the dots between climate change, water scarcity, energy shortages, global health, food security and women’s empowerment. Solutions to one problem must be solutions for all.”
– Ban Ki-moon
“It starts with a change of consciousness. We have to individually, and collectively, move from uninformed and/or disconnected passengers to engaged and conscientious crew. This is the time that anybody who ever wanted to be an astronaut can be. All it takes is to realize that you already are one.”
– This Spaceship Earth Houle and Rumage
“Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.”
– Ryunosuke Satoro
“We stand on the brink of unprecedented planetary ecological change. We must create a visionary operating manual for Spaceship Earth. That is the purpose of this book, to prompt the collective creation of that manual, and then operate within the guidelines of the manual, and do so in the most expeditious way possible.”
– This Spaceship Earth Houle and Rumage
“The power and majesty of nature in all its aspects is lost on one who contemplates it merely in the detail of its parts and not as a whole.”
– Pliny the Elder
“Instead of using the buried treasure savings account of fossil fuels, we can live off our income of solar, wind, and other alternative and renewable energy sources. The amount of sunlight that hits Spaceship Earth every hour can supply all our energy needs for a day. In a radically different, retrofitted Spaceship Earth, we can create extra energy every day. Our daily energy income can be greater than our use of it; we can accumulate unused energy, every day, and not release any emissions at all.”
– This Spaceship Earth Houle and Rumage
