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Climate Change Quotes
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“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.”
– Socrates
“In a consumption based economic model, creating waste is automatic.”
– This Spaceship Earth Houle and Rumage
“We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.”
– Miguel de Unamuno, Spanish essayist and philosopher
“We should each examine our perspectives. Do we see ourselves as part of a community? As part of a continuum? Do we believe that everything is connected to everything else?”
– This Spaceship Earth Houle and Rumage
“The most important thing about Spaceship Earth… an instruction manual did not come with it.”
– R. Buckminster Fuller
“This is where being crew on Spaceship Earth makes the difference. There are hundreds of things we can do. First, do no harm.”
– This Spaceship Earth Houle and Rumage
“Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.”
– Juvenal
“We have two choices. We can change our thinking and actions in ways that are unprecedented and create a solution from our collective consciousness. Or, we can continue along the path of the way things are, and steal the quality of life from our children, and the few future generations that will occur. Either way, the decision is now a conscious choice.”
– This Spaceship Earth Houle and Rumage
“He not busy being born is busy dying.”
– Bob Dylan
“The survival crisis humanity has entered is one of our own construction and creation. It is the result of silo thinking and linear processes.”
– This Spaceship Earth Houle and Rumage
