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Climate Change Quotes
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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 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
We are not trying to save the earth — we are not trying to save the planet. We are trying to save ourselves from ourselves.
-Tim Rumage
It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.
-Mark Twain
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
-Albert Einstein
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
The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think.
-Gregory Bateson
We are now in the fourth age of Modern Humanity.
-Tools defined the Agricultural Age
-Machines defined the Industrial Age
-Technology defined the Information Age
-Consciousness will define the Shift Age”
-David Houle from “The Shift Age” (2007)
Some people don’t like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.
-Elon Musk
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 business or 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: it is the term of what is and what will course through all aspects of human society for the twenty years of the Shift Age. We have entered the global stage of human evolution.
-David Houle from “Entering the Shift Age” (2013)
