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Climate Change Quotes
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“No matter how far you have gone on the wrong road, turn back.”
Turkish Proverb
“All businesses are dependent upon natural resources. They all use some combination of air, water, energy, raw materials, and/or refined, processed natural resources. A simple and direct translation of this reality is that the only way to have a viable long-term economy is to have a healthy long-term ecology.”
– This Spaceship Earth Houle and Rumage
“Individually we are one drop. Together we are an ocean.”
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Japanese writer
“There is a difference between how the planet works, and how we want/wish the planet to work. We are a goal directed species on a process oriented planet. Our operational preference is for linear and disconnected procedures on a planet dependent upon cyclical interconnectedness.”
– This Spaceship Earth Houle and Rumage
“By valuing life higher than material things we move closer to the spiritual teachings of all the world’s great religions. This understanding is the next level of evolution for human consciousness. It is not simply a profound philosophical understanding, it is a practical way forward to rebalance the climate, to create meaningful employment, to fairly distribute affluence and create a sustainable civilization.”
John D. Liu, 2014
“Whether the future is our fate, or ours to make, is currently being decided by the synergy of the cumulative, collective, and continuous actions that we take. There is a planetary reaction to everything we do – it just has a lag time before we become aware of what we have done.”
– This Spaceship Earth Houle and Rumage
“Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.”
Henry David Thoreau
“Atmospheric Cleansing is the holy grail technology to face climate change and will happen in the 2020s. The question is how fast humanity can scale it up.”
David Houle, 2012
“The key point is that we have been taught in a model that supports and fosters isolated/siloed thinking – just focus on the subject or immediate tasks at hand. Anything outside the focal area is extraneous, irrelevant, unimportant, and nothing you need to think or worry about. It is somebody else’s problem.”
– This Spaceship Earth Houle and Rumage
“In Nature’s economy the currency is not money, it is life.”
Vandana Shiva
