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Climate Change Quotes
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“It isn’t enough to do our best, sometimes we have to do what is required.”
– Winston Churchill
“The cost of our success is the plunder of natural resources, leading to energy crises, climate change, pollution, and the destruction of our habitat. If we continue in this same direction, humankind is headed for some frightful ordeals, if not extinction.”
Christian de Duve
“It is abundantly clear that the economic costs of not aggressively addressing climate change are far greater than the costs of addressing and overcoming it.”
– This Spaceship Earth Houle and Rumage
“By valuing life higher than material things we move closer to the spiritual teachings of all the world’s great religions. This understanding is the next level of evolution for human consciousness. It is not simply a profound philosophical understanding, it is a practical way forward to rebalance the climate, to create meaningful employment, to fairly distribute affluence and create a sustainable civilization.”
John D. Liu, 2014
“Since climate change and the global economy now affect us all, we have to develop a sense of the oneness of humanity.”
– Dalai Lama
“Any problem with or on the spacecraft is a liability for all those on board. It is collective and collaborative survival in the extreme.”
– This Spaceship Earth Houle and Rumage
“You may be able to fool the voters, but not the atmosphere.”
– Donella Meadows
“If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.”
– Lao Tzu
“Climate change is poised to become the most massive human rights violation the world has ever seen.”
– K. D. Moore
“If we are to go on living together on this Earth, we must all become responsible for it.”
– Kofi Annan