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Climate Change Quotes
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“We are all living together on a single planet, which is threatened by our own actions. We need some kind of global cooperation. Nationalism is just not on the right level to tackle the problems, whether it’s climate change or whether it’s technological disruption.”
– Yuval Noah Harari
“Forgiving ourselves can only happen if we stop our old ways of thinking and acting. We have to face forward. We have to face the future, and create future facing ways of thinking and acting.”
– This Spaceship Earth Houle and Rumage
“Our educational institutions need to see their purpose not as training personnel for exploiting the earth, but as guiding students toward an intimate relationship with the earth.”
– Thomas Berry
“While spaceships and space stations can be refueled and resupplied from the home planet; that is not an option for Spaceship Earth.”
– This Spaceship Earth Houle and Rumage
“It wasn’t raining when Noah built the ark.”
– Gerd Leonhard
“Taking care of Spaceship Earth restores the opportunities and provides for the quality of life we want our children and grandchildren to have.”
– This Spaceship Earth Houle and Rumage
“No matter how far you have gone on the wrong road, turn back.”
– Turkish Proverb
“Extreme weather was the first warning of Climate Change. Since it was weather, it was just an extreme version of our weather reality. Sea Level Rise will be different. This has never happened in recorded history, so it is outside our experiential reality. Sea Level Rise will show all that Climate Change is real. Unfortunately, it is also showing that we face coming catastrophes on past actions, regardless of what we do now. We can only work now on adaptation to lessen those catastrophes.”
David Houle, 2017
“Taking bold action on climate change simply makes good business sense. It’s also the right thing to do for people and the planet. Setting a net-zero greenhouse gas emissions target will drive innovation, grow jobs, build prosperity, and secure a better world for what will soon be nine billion people.”
Sir Richard Branson
“We have been a very inventive species, but the question before us now is… are we going to be a responsible species?”
– This Spaceship Earth Houle and Rumage
