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Climate Change Quotes
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“Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
“We should each examine our perspectives. Do we see ourselves as part of a community? As part of a continuum? Do we believe that everything is connected to everything else?”
– This Spaceship Earth Houle and Rumage
“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
– Albert Einstein
“This is where being crew on Spaceship Earth makes the difference. There are hundreds of things we can do. First, do no harm.”
– This Spaceship Earth Houle and Rumage
“There are those who ask why some people have a love for nature and others don’t. I say, find me a two-year-old who isn’t interested in a frog. The problem is that we lose that sense of wonder as we grow up.”
– Sir David Attenborough
“We have two choices. We can change our thinking and actions in ways that are unprecedented and create a solution from our collective consciousness. Or, we can continue along the path of the way things are, and steal the quality of life from our children, and the few future generations that will occur. Either way, the decision is now a conscious choice.”
– This Spaceship Earth Houle and Rumage
“You can resist an invading army, but you cannot resist an idea whose time has come.”
– Victor Hugo
“The survival crisis humanity has entered is one of our own construction and creation. It is the result of siloed thinking and linear processes.”
– This Spaceship Earth Houle and Rumage
“We can’t leave everything to the free market. In fact, climate change is the greatest free market failure. This is what happens when you don’t regulate corporations, and you allow them to treat the atmosphere as an open sewer.”
– Naomi Klein
“We need to promote the cooperative model inherent in systems design. Ecological systems are cooperative models… looking at the parts of the system out of context, and in isolation, can lead one to false conclusions about future events. Spaceship Earth consciousness is about supporting the synergy of the whole.”
– This Spaceship Earth Houle and Rumage
