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Climate Change Quotes
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“It is only through a global, not nationalistic, viewpoint that we can collaborate as crew to solve these problems.”
– This Spaceship Earth Houle and Rumage
“The twenty-first 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, Entering the Shift Age (2013)
“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.”
– Chinese Proverb
“It is in this, the second decade of the 21st century, that we must change our thinking about our relationship with the only planet we have. We have to face forward. The past is gone. We have to face the future, and create future facing ways of thinking and acting.”
– This Spaceship Earth Houle and Rumage
“We are not trying to save the earth — we are not trying to save the planet. We are trying to save ourselves from ourselves.”
– Tim Rumage
“We all live down-wind, down-stream, and down-time from everybody else. We need to think, design, and operate in a systems model – a holistic context of dynamic equilibrium.”
– This Spaceship Earth Houle and Rumage
“We drive into the future using only our rear view mirror.”
– Marshall McLuhan
“Legacy thinking keeps us all as unaware passengers of This Spaceship Earth. We need to let go of thinking that what each of us does is not relevant to TSE; that is the first step to becoming crew.”
– This Spaceship Earth Houle and Rumage
“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
“We interact with the environment, as do other living organisms, and as we do, we change the environment. There is no part of the biosphere, atmosphere, lithosphere or hydrosphere that we do not use or impact.”
– This Spaceship Earth Houle and Rumage
