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Climate Change Quotes
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“Even if all greenhouse gas emissions stopped tomorrow, we would still have decades of warming, sea level rise, melting glaciers, and species extinction.”
– This Spaceship Earth Houle and Rumage
“The more our world functions like the natural world, the more likely we are to endure on this home that is ours, but not ours alone.”
– Janine Benyus
“We shall need a substantially new way of thinking if humanity is to survive.”
– Albert Einstein
“Climate change, super storms, highly unusual weather, historic droughts, floods, and sea level rise make us realize that this is not the planet or biosphere we used to know. Is humanity at risk? Is humanity at cause?”
– This Spaceship Earth Houle and Rumage
“The wealth of the nation is its air, water, soil, forests, minerals, rivers, lakes, oceans, scenic beauty, wildlife habitats and biodiversity… that’s all there is. That’s the whole economy. That’s where all the economic activity and jobs come from. These biological systems are the sustaining wealth of the world.”
– Gaylord Nelson
“Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.”
– Carl Bard
“We are CREW not passengers. All of us are at risk on a degraded, polluted, and stressed planet.”
– This Spaceship Earth Houle and Rumage
“We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost’s familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth super highway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road – the one less traveled by – offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth.”
– Rachel Carson
“We need healthy forests if we want to protect our climate. As the climate changes, forests become more vulnerable to insect outbreaks, droughts and wildfires. Simultaneously, when our forests are destroyed, their carbon is released back into the atmosphere, further impacting climate change. It’s a horrifying feedback loop.”
– Chris Noth
“There is a developing urgency around humanity’s relationship to Earth. What had been speculation has now become fact. What had been theorized, is now being experienced.”
– This Spaceship Earth Houle and Rumage
