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Climate Change Quotes
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“It is in this, the second decade of the 21st century, that we must change our thinking about our relationship with the only planet we have. We have to face forward. The past is gone. We have to face the future, and create future facing ways of thinking and acting. As we do that, then this current decade will become known as the first decade of 21st century thought, and will bring us into the Earth Century.”
– This Spaceship Earth Houle and Rumage
“Do not limit your children to your own learning, for they are born in another time.”
– Rabindranath Tagore
“Legacy thinking keeps us all as unaware passengers on This Spaceship Earth. We need to let go of thinking that what each of us does is not relevant to TSE; that is the first step to becoming crew of TSE.”
– This Spaceship Earth Houle and Rumage
“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.”
– John Muir
“As parents, we are to sacrifice for our children and not vice versa. Are we defining progress as promoting short term economic gains for a few, or is progress to be defined by increasing the viability and vitality of TSE for the future of all?”
– This Spaceship Earth Houle and Rumage
“The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think.”
– Gregory Bateson
“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
“If capitalism itself doesn’t take into account natural capital, then we’re all stuffed.”
– HRH the Prince of Wales
“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
“Our identity includes our natural world, how we move through it, how we interact with it and how it sustains us.”
– David Suzuki
