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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

 

Posted: 01.10.2016

“We see in the light of accumulated experiences, stored information, private interests and entrenched beliefs.”

-George Nelson

 

Posted: 01.09.2016

“If capitalism itself doesn’t take into account natural capital, then we’re all stuffed.”

-HRH The Prince of Wales

 

Posted: 01.06.2016

“Our identity includes our natural world, how we move through it, how we interact with it and how it sustains us.”

-David Suzuki

 

Posted: 01.05.2016

“Human beings are good at many things, but thinking about our species as a whole is not one of our strong points.”

-David Attenborough

 

Posted: 01.04.2016

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”

-Upton Sinclair

 

Posted: 01.03.2016

The fundamental idea of design is to make the world a better place.

-Bruce Mau

 

Posted: 01.02.2016

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

 

Posted: 01.02.2016

“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

 

Posted: 01.02.2016