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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
“You can resist an invading army, but you cannot resist an idea whose time has come.”
– Victor Hugo
“First, we take stock of the status of our planetary spaceship. Next, we forgive what has happened, as we all played a part in what has taken place. 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.”
– This Spaceship Earth Houle and Rumage
“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.”
– Socrates
“We are in a changing, dynamic, planetary situation that has never existed during modern humanity’s time on Earth. We are convinced that this calls for a new consciousness, a planetary crew consciousness.”
– This Spaceship Earth Houle and Rumage
“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
“There is a developing urgency around humanity’s relationship to Earth. What had been speculation has now become fact. What had been theorized, is now being experienced.”
– This Spaceship Earth Houle and Rumage
“We should try to be the parents of our future, rather than the offspring of our past.”
– Miguel de Unamuno, Spanish essayist and philosopher
“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
“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
