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Climate Change Quotes
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“Do what you can, with what you have, from where you are.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
“We need to promote the cooperative model inherent in systems design. Ecological systems are cooperative models… looking at the parts of the system out of context, and in isolation, can lead one to false conclusions about future events. Spaceship Earth consciousness is about supporting the synergy of the whole.”
– This Spaceship Earth Houle and Rumage
“We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly.”
– Martin Luther King, letter from Birmingham jail
“There is no silver bullet, no-one-size-fits-all solution to the issues we face. We have to individually, and collectively move from uninformed and/or disconnected passengers to engaged and conscientious crew members.”
– This Spaceship Earth Houle and Rumage
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
– R. Buckminster Fuller
“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 error of the past is the wisdom of the future.”
– Dale Turner
“We are in a changing, dynamic, planetary situation that calls for a planetary crew consciousness.”
– This Spaceship Earth Houle and Rumage
“Our educational institutions need to see their purpose not as training personnel for exploiting the earth, but as guiding students toward an intimate relationship with the earth.”
– Thomas Berry
“The 35 billion tonnes of CO2 put in the atmosphere in 2013 is still active in the environment, as is the 35 billion tonnes released in 2014. The current model of CO2 reduction is really a lower rate of increase of CO2 in the environment, not a true subtraction from the total.”
– This Spaceship Earth Houle and Rumage
