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Climate Change Quotes
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“Our educational institutions need to see their purpose not as training personnel for exploiting the earth, but as guiding students toward an intimate relationship with the earth.”
– Thomas Berry
“No matter how far you have gone on the wrong road, turn back.”
– Turkish Proverb
“Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“In Nature’s economy the currency is not money, it is life.”
– Vandana Shiva
“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
“If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.”
– Lao Tzu
“I want to help, but I don’t know what to do.”
– Ron Zeitler
“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.”
– David Houle from “Entering the Shift Age” (2013)
“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.”
– Alvin Toffler
“In this case, the goal is even greater, for it is a matter of survival. Human civilization and survival may well be the context for moving forward as it trumps politics, religion, economics, policy, and nationalism.”
– This Spaceship Earth Houle and Rumage
