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Climate Change Quotes
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“Human ingenuity may make various inventions… but it will never devise any invention more beautiful, nor more simple, nor more to the purpose than Nature does; because in her inventions nothing is wanting and nothing is superfluous.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
“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
“In the course of history, there comes a time when humanity is called to shift to a new level of consciousness, to reach a higher moral ground.”
– Wangari Maathai
“What we are really looking at is minimizing human suffering, catastrophic economic losses, and large scale, geo-political disruption.”
– This Spaceship Earth Houle and Rumage
“It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.”
– Josiah Charles Stamp
“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
“Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors.”
– Jonas Salk
“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
“Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.”
– Ryunosuke Satoro
“There is a dramatic need for workers to rebuild and create infrastructure, new energy platforms, and new technological undertakings on a grand scale.”
– This Spaceship Earth Houle and Rumage
