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Climate Change Quotes
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“We believe we can extract the valuable parts of the earth without affecting the whole. We believe it is possible to treat parts of our body without addressing the whole. We believe we can deal with societal problems, such as crime, poverty and drug addiction, without dealing with society as a whole.”
– Michael Talbot, author
“We live on a spaceship (earth) that must resupply itself from itself.”
– This Spaceship Earth Houle and Rumage
“The snake which cannot shed its skin, must perish.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
“Earth currently has the same amount of fresh water, with 7.3 billion people, as it did hundreds of thousands of years ago when there were only a few million. We need to learn to use water more effectively and efficiently. Our survival depends on it.”
– This Spaceship Earth Houle and Rumage
“Decisive progress cannot be made without an increased awareness that all of us are part of one human family, united by bonds of fraternity and solidarity.”
– Pope Francis
The seas are the source of life on earth. We dump pollutants into our oceans in an ongoing process. That must stop. We have so overfished the oceans that we are approaching a critical junction. Humanity cannot live long with dead seas.
– This Spaceship Earth Houle and Rumage
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”
– Upton Sinclair
“We do not know the importance of questions we were taught to ignore, or the value of information we do not have.”
– This Spaceship Earth Houle and Rumage
“Some people don’t like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.”
– Elon Musk
“In a consumption based economic model, creating waste is automatic.”
– This Spaceship Earth Houle and Rumage
