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Climate Change Quotes
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“When the winds of change are blowing, some people build walls and others build windmills.”
– Chinese Proverb
“We need to forgive ourselves for thinking and acting the way we have. We must not look back and blame. We need to forgive, let go, and face the reality of today… and the crisis ahead. We need to face forward.”
– This Spaceship Earth Houle and Rumage
“Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.”
– Kenneth Boulding (economist)
“It is only through a global, not nationalistic, viewpoint that we can collaborate as crew to solve these problems.”
– This Spaceship Earth Houle and Rumage
“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.”
– Chinese Proverb
“Climate change challenges our basic belief structure. Do we have dominion over the earth and creation, or is our role one of stewardship? I thought we were supposed to leave a place better than we found it.”
– This Spaceship Earth Co-Founder Tim Rumage
“We drive into the future using only our rear view mirror.”
– Marshall McLuhan
“The twenty-first century will be the Earth Century. It will be during this century that humanity faces the reality of whether it wants to destroy itself and much of what exists on this magnificent planet… or not. Assuming we make essential course corrections, future historians will write about the Earth Century as a turning point in human history.”
– Entering the Shift Age David Houle
“It’s far too late and things are far too bad for pessimism.”
– Dee Hock
“It is in this, the second decade of the 21st century, that we must change our thinking about our relationship with the only planet we have. We have to face forward. The past is gone. We have to face the future, and create future facing ways of thinking and acting. As we do that, then this current decade will become known as the first decade of 21st century thought, and will bring us into the Earth Century.”
– This Spaceship Earth Houle and Rumage
