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Climate Change Quotes
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“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
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”
– Upton Sinclair
“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
“Some people don’t like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.”
– Elon Musk
“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
“With the global economic changes underway, and the resultant social changes taking root, we are developing the identity of global citizens. Whether one has come to this new identity through one’s line of work or through political or cultural issues, we all, to varying degrees, see ourselves as global citizens. Globalization is no longer simply an economic term. We have entered the global stage of human evolution.”
– David Houle from “Entering the Shift Age” (2013)
“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
– Albert Einstein
“While spaceships and space stations can be refueled and resupplied from the home planet; that is not an option for Spaceship Earth.”
– This Spaceship Earth Houle and Rumage
“Everyone on Earth today is down-wind or down-stream from someone else, so a problem anywhere on the planet, in some way, is a problem for all on the planet.”
– This Spaceship Earth Houle and Rumage
“Any problem with or on the spacecraft is a liability for all those on board. It is collective and collaborative survival in the extreme.”
– This Spaceship Earth Houle and Rumage
