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Climate Change Quotes
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“Disasters are beginning to affect communities at an alarming pace, the result of increased development in harm’s way as well as changing climate conditions. Our current natural disaster policy framework focuses heavily on responding to disasters, rather than putting protective measures in place to reduce our vulnerability and limit a disaster’s impact.”
– SmarterSafer
“If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.”
– Peter F. Drucker
“The transformative technology that might well come along within the next few years would go beyond the tree model and move to the ‘vacuum cleaner’ model: actively sucking CO2 particulates out of the atmosphere. This is an environmentalist’s holy grail technology.”
– Entering the Shift Age (2013), David Houle
“Human ingenuity may make various inventions… but it will never devise any invention more beautiful, nor more simple, nor more to the purpose than Nature does; because in her inventions nothing is wanting and nothing is superfluous.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
“In this early part of the 21st Century we are in a planetary reality for which we have no precedence. The last time the atmosphere had as much CO2 as today was at least 800,000 years ago. Modern Humanity has been around for 200,000 years so there is no road map, plan or strategy we can pull up from history.”
– This Spaceship Earth Houle and Rumage
“It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.”
– Josiah Charles Stamp
“KPMG, one of the world’s largest accounting/audit companies, estimated that in 2008 the 3,000 largest public companies were causing $2.15 trillion (USD) of environmental damage. In a separate calculation, KPMG estimated that it would cost corporations 41 cents of each dollar of revenue if those corporations had to pay for the services that nature provides.”
– This Spaceship Earth Houle and Rumage
“Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors.”
– Jonas Salk
“The heart of the issue is not the emission of CO2, but where CO2 goes, and what it does when it gets there. Utilizing only CO2 emission reductions as the acceptable mechanism to prevent future harm is an illusionary and false trail to a better future.”
– This Spaceship Earth Houle and Rumage
“If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, so that my child may have peace.”
– Thomas Paine
