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Climate Change Quotes
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“Preservation of our environment is not a liberal or a conservative challenge; it is common sense.”
– Ronald Reagan
“You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics looks so petty.”
– Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 astronaut
“In our daily choices, we make things better or we make things worse. Our actions are our beliefs. We assume an inexhaustible supply of resources and commodities, so we consume them at an extravagant rate.”
– This Spaceship Earth Houle and Rumage
“The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it.”
– Robert Swan
“There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth, we are all crew.”
– Marshall McLuhan
“The 21st century will be the Earth Century. It will be during this century that humanity faces the reality of whether it wants to destroy itself, and much of what exists on this magnificent planet, or not.”
David Houle 2012
“Environment and economy are two sides of the same coin. If we cannot sustain the environment, we cannot sustain ourselves.”
– Wangari Maathai
“As we continue to alter the physical, chemical and biological properties of the planet by burning fossil fuels, intact nature is one of the only things that can save us. Pristine wilderness is a hedge against our collective ignorance.”
– David Suzuki
“We are the first and only species on Earth to know that we have a time frame of existence – and the potential ability to lengthen or shorten it.”
– This Spaceship Earth Houle and Rumage
“Only in economics is endless expansion seen as a virtue. In biology, it is called cancer.”
– David Pilling
