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.
The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter woods.
The shortage of fresh water is the major ecological problem of this moment.
I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.
Wilderness and motors are incompatible and the former can best be experienced, understood and enjoyed when the machines are left behind where they belong -- on the superhighways and in the parking lots, on the reservoirs and in the marinas.
I choose to listen to the river for a while, thinking river thoughts, before joining the night and the stars.
The road made wet by the water of August shines like it was cut in full moonlight
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