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Climate Change Quotes
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“No matter how complex or affluent, human societies are nothing but a subsystem of the biosphere, the Earth’s thin veneer of life, which is ultimately run by bacteria, fungi and green plants.”
– Vaclav Smil
We have entered the Age of Intelligence and the Age of Climate Change. These two forces will affect humanity more than anything else in the next 20-30 years.
– David Houle, 2017
“Hope remains, only in the most difficult task of all: to reconsider everything from the ground up, so as to shape a living society inside a dying one.”
– Albert Camus
“We often preoccupy ourselves with symptoms, whereas if we went to the root cause of the problem we would be able to overcome the problem once and for all.”
– Wangari Maathai
“The current approach to resolving climate change is to focus on the reduction of CO2 emissions… being less bad is not the same as being good.”
– This Spaceship Earth Houle and Rumage
“Orbiting the earth in the spaceship, I saw how beautiful our planet is. People, let us preserve and increase this beauty, not destroy it!”
– Yuri Gagarin, Russian cosmonaut and first man in space
“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 not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully, nor for much longer, unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.”
– R. Buckminster Fuller
“25 years ago people could be excused for not knowing much, or doing much, about climate change. Today, we have no excuse.”
– Desmond Tutu
“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
– Aldous Huxley
