Generations Quotes

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Only when I saw the Earth from space, in all its ineffable beauty and fragility, did I realize that humankind's most urgent task is to… — Sigmund Jahn
We need a change in consciousness to go with this technology platform. We need a new narrative: we need to shift from geopolitics to biosphere… — Jeremy Rifkin
The Empathic Civilization is emerging. A younger generation is fast extending its empathic embrace beyond religious affiliations and national identification to include the whole of… — Jeremy Rifkin
What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations ... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being… — Hannah Arendt
The measure of our success will be the condition on which we leave the world for the next generation. — Robert Redford
We have a responsibility to protect the rights of generations, of all species, that cannot speak for themselves today. The global challenge of climate change… — Wangari Maathai
We can't negotiate the facts. We can't negotiate the truth about the situation. And for those who are too fearful to finish, it can be… — Al Gore
For my generation, coming of age at the height of the Cold War, fear of nuclear winter seemed the leading existential threat on the horizon.… — Ban Ki-moon
Neither your life nor my life, nor the future of this country, will be affected in the slightest by whether Linda Tripp is naughty or… — Thomas Sowell
I refuse to condemn your generation and future generations to a planet that's beyond fixing. — Barack Obama
We cannot interfere in one area of the ecosystem without paying due attention to both the consequences of such interference in other areas and to… — Pope John Paul II
This is the moral challenge of our generation. Not only are the eyes of the world upon us. More important, succeeding generations depend on us.… — Ban Ki-moon
We are upsetting the atmosphere upon which all life depends. In the late 80s when I began to take climate change seriously, we referred to… — David Suzuki
Future generations may well have occasion to ask themselves, "What were our parents thinking? Why didn't they wake up when they had a chance?" We… — Al Gore
Part of the American ethos is that you want to leave something better for your kids than you had and I know that my parents… — Matt Damon
If we use our fuel to get our power, we are living on our capital and exhausting it rapidly. This method is barbarous and wantonly… — Nikola Tesla
We of the richer societies, who have had access to more energy than we have the experience to wield intelligently are making decisions we are… — Alfred W. Crosby
The Caring for Climate initiative is fully aligned with our own explicit commitments, which reflect our respect for society in which we operate, respect for… — Jose Lopez
Unless we free ourselves from a dependence on these fossil fuels... we are condemning future generations to global catastrophe — Barack Obama
Our challenge, our generation's unique challenge, is learning to live peacefully and sustainably in an extraordinarily crowded world. Our planet is crowded to an unprecendented… — Jeffrey Sachs

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