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Climate Change Quotes
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“The scientific worldview is essentially a reductive materialist philosophy that says if you want to understand something, you take it apart in little pieces, and then you see how the pieces fit together, and then you understand something. But when you start looking at a complex system, you can take it apart into little pieces, but those little pieces will not tell you how the whole thing works.”
– Dean Radin, Chief Scientist, Institute of Noetic Sciences
“What mankind must know is that human beings cannot live without Mother Earth, but the planet can live without humans. We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.”
– Margaret Mead
“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, co-founder of This Spaceship Earth
“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
“If it can’t be reduced, reused, repaired, rebuilt, refurbished, refinished, resold, recycled or composted, then it should be restricted, redesigned or removed from production.”
– Pete Seeger
“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
“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
“First, we take stock of the status of our planetary spaceship. Next, we forgive what has happened, as we all played a part in what has taken place. We then let go of past models of thought and implementation. Lastly, we face forward, think differently, and (re)discover smarter and more elegant ways to interact with and operate This Spaceship Earth.”
– This Spaceship Earth Houle and Rumage
“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
“The rate at which we’re injecting CO2 into the atmosphere today is ten times faster than it was during the End-Permian era (aka The Great Dying). Rates matter. We’re creating a very difficult environment for life to adapt. We’re imposing change ten times faster than the worst events in Earth’s history.”
– Lee Kump, professor of Geosciences at Pennsylvania State University
