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Climate Change Quotes
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“Climate change, super storms, highly unusual weather, historic droughts, floods, and sea level rise make us realize that this is not the planet or biosphere we used to know. Is humanity at risk? Is humanity at cause?”
– This Spaceship Earth Houle and Rumage
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
“You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics looks so petty.”
– Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 astronaut
“I’m always struck by how successful we have been at hitting the bull’s-eye of the wrong target.”
– Joel Salatin
“Once a photograph of the Earth, taken from outside, is available… a new idea as powerful as any in history will be let loose.”
– Jim Hoyle, Astronomer, 1948
“The environment can be humanity’s greatest friend or, if poorly managed, our most implacable foe. Ecosystems provide our life-giving needs: from the atmosphere that shields us from the sun’s rays and supplies the air we breathe, to the broad diversity of life that gives us our food and much of our fabric and building materials.”
– Achim Steiner, Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme 2006-2016
“There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth, we are all crew.”
– Marshall McLuhan
“The wealth of the nation is its air, water, soil, forests, minerals, rivers, lakes, oceans, scenic beauty, wildlife habitats and biodiversity… that’s all there is. That’s the whole economy. That’s where all the economic activity and jobs come from. These biological systems are the sustaining wealth of the world.”
– Gaylord Nelson
“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
“No matter how complex or affluent, human societies are nothing but a subsystem of the biosphere, the Earth’s thin veneer of life, which is ultimately run by bacteria, fungi and green plants.”
– Vaclav Smil
