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Climate Change Quotes
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“The issue we have today is the predominance of all the twentieth-century physical constructs that dominate the world. We can’t simply start anew with new structures, transportation systems, and cities, leaving what exists behind. We don’t have a blank canvas on which to paint a new picture. We must develop the vision of the twenty-first century, then turn and face the landscape dealt us by the twentieth-century and retrofit it.”
– David Houle from Entering the Shift Age (2013)
“The conservation of natural resources is the fundamental problem. Unless we solve that problem it will avail us little to solve all others.”
– President Theodore Roosevelt
“Whether the future is our fate, or ours to make, is currently being decided by the synergy of cumulative, collective and continuous actions that we take. There is a planetary reaction to everything we do.”
– This Spaceship Earth Houle and Rumage
“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.”
– Albert Einstein
“In this early part of the 21st Century we are in a planetary reality for which we have no precedence. The last time the atmosphere had as much CO2 as today was at least 800,000 years ago. Modern Humanity has been around for 200,000 years so there is no road map, plan or strategy we can pull up from history.”
– This Spaceship Earth Houle and Rumage
“Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.”
– Horace Mann
“KPMG, one of the world’s largest accounting/audit companies, estimated that in 2008 the 3,000 largest public companies were causing $2.15 trillion (USD) of environmental damage. In a separate calculation, KPMG estimated that it would cost corporations 41 cents of each dollar of revenue if those corporations had to pay for the services that nature provides.”
– This Spaceship Earth Houle and Rumage
We are now living in a dually perceived reality. While we live in the 21st century, we seem to hold to the “way things are” as what is real. Much of our daily lives have been habituated to this 20th century reality. We simply accept what we have known most of our lives as reality. Acceptance of something is, to some degree, acquiescence to it.
– Entering the Shift Age (2013) David Houle
“The only way for every nation to put itself first is to lock arms with all other nations and move forward together.”
– Frank Bainimarama, Prime Minister, Republic of Fiji
“The heart of the issue is not the emission of CO2, but where CO2 goes, and what it does when it gets there. Utilizing only CO2 emission reductions as the acceptable mechanism to prevent future harm is an illusionary and false trail to a better future.”
– This Spaceship Earth Houle and Rumage
