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Climate Change Quotes
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“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.”
– Socrates
“There is no silver bullet, no-one-size-fits-all solution to the issues we face. We have to individually, and collectively move from uninformed and/or disconnected passengers to engaged and conscientious crew members.”
– This Spaceship Earth Houle and Rumage
“Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies, and in our economics, and in our politics.”
– Sir David Attenborough
“Science and faith share an increasing alliance of agreement that the issues are real and are human generated – we are cause and effect.”
– This Spaceship Earth Houle and Rumage
“The most important thing about Spaceship Earth… an instruction manual did not come with it.”
– R. Buckminster Fuller
“Whether the future is our fate, or ours to make, is currently being decided by the synergy of cumulative, collective and continuous actions that we take. There is a planetary reaction to everything we do.”
– This Spaceship Earth Houle and Rumage
“Earth is not a platform for human life. It’s a living being. We’re not on it, but part of it. Its health is our health.”
– Thomas Moore
“We are a miniscule part of Earth’s history and existence, and the human-planetary crisis is but a sliver of time in the life of our planet. The planet was in existence long before we were, and it will be here long after humanity has passed on. Humanity needs to save itself from itself.”
– This Spaceship Earth Houle and Rumage
“We should try to be the parents of our future, rather than the offspring of our past.”
– Miguel de Unamuno, Spanish essayist and philosopher
“We are in a changing, dynamic, planetary situation that calls for a planetary crew consciousness.”
– This Spaceship Earth Houle and Rumage
