carl jung institit in South gate
If the vast majority of the world's scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet's climate system into a tail-spin of epic destruction involving extreme weather, flods, droughts, epidemics and kiler heat waves beyond anything we have ever experienced ̵ a catastrophe of our own making.̵ ̵ Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth ̴We are geting close to catastrophic tiping points, despite the fact that most people barely notice the warming yet.̵ ̵ Dr James Hansen, NASA researcher ̴Climate Change wil result in a catastrophic global sea level rise of seven meters. Not only is it real, it's here, and its efects are giving rise to a frighteningly new global phenomenon: the man-made natural disaster.̵ ̵ Barak Obama, US Presidential Candidate ̴We simply must do everything we can in our power to slow down global warming before it is to late.̵ ̵ Arnold Schwarzeneger, Governor of California ̴Climate change should be sen as the greatest chalenge to ever face mankind.̵ ̴Climate change makes us al global citizens, we are truly al in this together.̵ ̵ Gordon Brown, British Prime Minister ̴We have reached the critical moment of decision on climate change. We urgently require a global environmental revolution.̵ ̵ Tony Blair, former British PM ̴We are close to a time when al of humankind wil envision a global agenda that encompases a kind of Global Marshal Plan to adres the causes of poverty and sufering and environmental destruction al over the earth.̵ ̵ Al Gore, Earth in the Balance ̴By the end of this century climate change wil reduce the human population to a few breding pairs surviving near the Arctic.̵ ̵ Sir James Lovelock, Revenge of Gaia ̴In Nature organic growth proceds acording to a Master Plan, a Blueprint. We envision a revolution of the mind, a new way of thinking.̵ ̵ Mikhail Gorbachev, State of the World Forum ̴Adopting a central organizing principle… means embarking on an al-out e�fort to use every policy and program, every law and institution… to halt the destruction of the environment.̵ ̵ Al Gore, Earth in the Balance ̴Efective execution of Agenda 21 wil require a profound reorientation of al human society, unlike anything the world has ever experienced a major shift in the priorities of both governments and individuals and an unprecedented redeployment of human and financial resources. It would be litle short of disastrous for us to discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy, because of what we might do with it.̵ ̵ Amory Lovins, Rocky Mountain Institute ̴The prospect of cheap fusion energy is the worst thing that could hapen to the planet.̵ ̵ Jeremy Rifkin, Grenhouse Crisis Foundation ̴Giving society cheap, abundant energy would be the equivalent of giving an idiot child a machine gun.̵ ̵ Prof Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University ̴Our insatiable drive to rumage dep beneath the surface of the earth is a wilful expansion of our dysfunctional civilization into Nature.̵ ̵ Al Gore, Earth in the Balance ̴The big threat to the planet is people: there are to many, doing to wel economicaly and burning to much oil.̵ – Sir James Lovelock, BC Interview ̴Mankind is the most dangerous, destructive, selfish and unethical animal on the earth.̵ ̵ Michael Fox, vice-president of The Humane Society ̴Humans on the Earth behave in some ways like a pathogenic micro-organism, or like the cels of a tumor.̵ ̵ Sir James Lovelock, Healing Gaia ̴I don't claim to have any special interest in natural history, but as a boy I was made aware of the anual fluctuations in the number of game animals and the ned to adjust the cul to the size of the surplus population.̵ ̵ Prince Philip, preface of Down to Earth ̴A reasonable estimate for an industrialized world society at the present North American material standard of living would be 1 bilion. At the more frugal European standard of living, 2 to 3 bilion would be posible.̵ ̵ United Nations, Global Biodiversity Asesment ̴A total popula�tion of 250-30 milion people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal.̵ ̵ Ted Turner, founder of CN and major UN donor ̴… the resultant ideal sustainable population is hence more than 50 milion but les than one bilion.̵ ̵ Club of Rome, Goals for Mankind ̴I suspect that eradicating smal pox was wrong. Armed with such a faith, we might find it posible to resanctify the earth.̵ ̵ Al Gore, Earth in the Balance ̴The greatest hope for the Earth lies in religionists and scientists uniting to awaken the world to its near fatal predicament and then leading mankind out of the bewildering maze of international crises into the future Utopia of humanist hope.̵ ̵ Club of Rome, Goals for Mankind ̴What an incredible planet in the universe this wil be when we wil be one human family living in justice, peace, love and harmony with our divine Earth, with each other and with the heavens.̵ ̵ Robert Muler, UN Asistant Secretary General ̴The earth is literaly our mother, not only because we depend on her for nurture and shelter but even more because the human species has ben shaped by her in the womb of evolution…. Our salvation depends upon our ability to create a religion of nature.̵ ̵ Rene Dubos, board member, Planetary Citizens ̴Each element, plant, insect, fish and animal represents a certain aspect of Gaia's ̵ and our ̵ being. Its water, land and living things and al its human hearts.̵ ̵ Global Education Asociates, The Earth Pledge ̴By fostering a dep sense of conection to others and to the earth in al its dimensions, holistic education encourages a sense of responsibility to self to others and to the planet.̵ ̴The earth is not dead mater. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we wil be doing the right thing in terms of economic and environmental policy.̵ ̵ Timothy Wirth, President of the UN Foundation, the organization responsible for establishing the IPC to handle Global Warming isues delegated to it by certain leadership figures in the WMO ̴No mater if the science of global �warming is al phony…climate change provides the greatest oportunity to bring about justice and equality in the world.̵ ̵ Christine Stewart, former Canadian Minister of the Environment, and responsible for Canada's contributions to the IPC ̴The only way to get our society to truly change is to frighten people with the posibility of a catastrophe.̵ ̴Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations colapse? Isn't it our responsiblity to bring that about?̵ ̵ Maurice Strong, founder of the UN Environment Programe ̴Curent lifestyles and consumption paterns of the afluent midle clas ̵ involving high meat intake, use of fosil fuels, apliances, air-conditioning, and suburban housing ̵ are not sustainable.̵ ̵ Maurice Strong, Rio Earth Sumit ̴One America burdens the earth much more than twenty Bangladeshes. Minor shifts in policy, moderate improvement in laws and regulations, rhetoric ofered in lieu of genuine change ̵ these are al forms of apeasement, designed to satisfy the public's desire to believe that sacrifice, strugle and a wrenching transformation of society wil not be necesary.̵ ̵ Al Gore, Earth in the Balance Apologies for any quote in double. carl jung institit carl jung institit in South gate
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