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Climate Change Quotes
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“There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew.”
– Marshall McLuhan
“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
“The most important thing about Spaceship Earth… an instruction manual did not come with it.”
– R. Buckminster Fuller
“It starts with a change of consciousness. We have to individually, and collectively move from uninformed and/or disconnected passengers to engaged and conscientious crew. This is the time that anybody who ever wanted to be an astronaut can be. All it takes is to realize that you already are one.”
– This Spaceship Earth Houle and Rumage
“Instead of using the buried treasure savings account of fossil fuels, we can live off our income of solar, wind, and other alternative and renewable energy sources. The amount of sunlight that hits TSE every hour can supply all our energy needs for a day. In a radically different, retrofitted TSE, we can create extra energy every day. Our daily energy income can be greater than our use of it; we can accumulate unused energy, every day, and not release any emissions at all.”
– This Spaceship Earth Houle and Rumage
“Complex systems grow to a certain scale, at which time they need to restructure, redesign, and redevelop themselves to maintain and maximize efficiency and effectiveness. We are at that stage, and now is that time.”
– This Spaceship Earth Houle and Rumage
“He not busy being born, is busy dying.”
– Bob Dylan
“Do what you can, with what you have, from where you are.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
“We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality tied in a single garment of destiny, whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly.”
– Dr. Martin Luther King letter from a Birmingham jail
“The error of the past is the wisdom of the future.”
– Dale Turner
