Twenty-five years ago people could be excused for not knowing much, or doing much, about climate change. Today we have no excuse. No more can it be dismissed as science fiction; we are already feeling the effects.
Interpretation
We can no longer ignore climate change, as its impacts are visible and undeniable today.
Desmond Tutu emphasizes the urgency of acknowledging climate change in our current reality. He indicates that while ignorance about the issue was somewhat understandable in the past, the present situation requires immediate action and awareness, as the consequences are no longer theoretical but are being experienced globally.
In practice
In a speech at a climate change conference to inspire action among participants.
The fossil reserves that have already been discovered exceed what can ever be safely used. Yet companies spend half a trillion dollars each year searching for more fuel. They should redirect this money toward developing clean energy solutions
As much as the world has an instinct for evil and is a breeding ground for genocide, holocaust, slavery, racism, war, oppression, and injustice, the world has an even greateer instinct for goodness, rebirth, mercy, beauty, truth, freedom and love.
When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.
Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.
Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.
Gaza is going to test who believes in the worth of human beings.
Recreational development is a job not of building roads into lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind.
Nothing is really small; whoever is open to the deep penetration of nature knows this.
I'm always happy when I'm surrounded by water, I think I'm a Mermaid or I was a mermaid. The ocean makes me feel really small and it makes me put my whole life into perspective… it humbles you and makes you feel almost like you’ve been baptized. I feel born again when I get out of the ocean.
Nature is probably quite indifferent to the aesthetic preferences of mathematicians.
The elms of New England! They are as much a part of her beauty as the columns of the Parthenon were the glory of its architecture.
We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to its security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.
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