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Climate Change Quotes
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“Disasters are beginning to affect communities at an alarming pace, the result of increased development in harm’s way as well as changing climate conditions. Our current natural disaster policy framework focuses heavily on responding to disasters, rather than putting protective measures in place to reduce our vulnerability and limit a disaster’s impact.”
– SmarterSafer
“Human ingenuity may make various inventions… but it will never devise any invention more beautiful, nor more simple, nor more to the purpose than Nature does; because in her inventions nothing is wanting and nothing is superfluous.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
“What we are really looking at is minimizing human suffering, catastrophic economic losses, and large scale, geo-political disruption.”
– This Spaceship Earth Houle and Rumage
“In the course of history, there comes a time when humanity is called to shift to a new level of consciousness, to reach a higher moral ground.”
– Wangari Maathai
“It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.”
– Josiah Charles Stamp
“We are in a changing, dynamic, planetary situation that calls for a planetary crew consciousness. We reach this new level of awareness through a process.”
– This Spaceship Earth Houle and Rumage
“Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors.”
– Jonas Salk
“The Quartermaster supervises, stores, and distributes supplies and provisions. The Quartermaster also ensures that equipment, materials, and systems are available and functioning. The purpose of the Quartermaster’s Report is to describes the status of the ship, in this case This Spaceship Earth. The reason for taking a planetary perspective is to realign our individual viewpoints and assumptions about resource quantity, quality, and demand with that of TSE’s current operational capability, capacity and actual status.”
– https://thisspaceshipearth.org/explore/quartermasters-updates/ Tim Rumage
“Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth… these are one and the same fight. We must connect the dots between climate change, water scarcity, energy shortages, global health, food security and women’s empowerment. Solutions to one problem must be solutions for all.”
– Ban Ki-moon
“It starts with a change of consciousness. We have to individually, and collectively move from uninformed and/or disconnected passengers to engaged and conscientious crew. This is the time that anybody who ever wanted to be an astronaut can be. All it takes is to realize that you already are one.”
– This Spaceship Earth Houle and Rumage
