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Climate Change Quotes
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“Spaceship Earth is where all humans live. There is no other known planet inhabited or inhabitable by humans, this is our only place.”
– This Spaceship Earth Houle and Rumage
“We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win.”
John F. Kennedy
“Tools defined the Agricultural Age. Machines defined the Industrial Age. Technology defined the Information Age. Consciousness will define the Shift Age.”
David Houle, The Shift Age 2007
“It isn’t enough to do our best, sometimes we have to do what is required.”
Winston Churchill
“First, we take stock of the status of our planetary spaceship. Next, we forgive what has happened, as we all played a part. 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. Soon! “
– This Spaceship Earth Houle and Rumage
“Saving civilization is not a spectator sport. We all have to get involved.”
Lester Brown
“The 21st 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 2012
“The Department of Defense sees climate change as a present security threat. Although climate-related stress will disproportionately affect fragile and conflict-affected states, even resilient, well-developed countries are subject to the effects of climate change in significant and consequential ways.”
– National Security Implications of Climate-Related Risks and a Changing Climate, 23 July 2015
Soon, everyone will have to make the choice between what is right and what is easy.
– Professor Dumbledore
We have entered the Age of Intelligence and the Age of Climate Change. These two forces will affect humanity more than anything else in the next 20-30 years.
– David Houle, 2017
