“Avoiding climate breakdown will require cathedral thinking. We must lay the foundation while we may not know exactly how to build the ceiling.”

— Greta Thunberg

“The Eloquence of Greta Thunberg”, Thomas Gaulkin, https://thebulletin.org/2019/04/greta-thunberg-climate-change-eloquence/ Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (25 April 2019) <br class="br">2019, "You did not act in time" (April 2019)

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Tobias Dantzig (1884–1956) American mathematician

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Number: The Language of Science (1930)

“We must pass through the barriers of language and race, of geography and religion, of custom and tradition and we must build on a common foundation.”

Vincent Massey (1887–1967) Governor General of Canada

Address at a Citizenship Ceremony, Winnipeg Manitoba, May 20, 1955
Speaking Of Canada - (1959)

“If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.”

Charlotte Brontë (1816–1855) English novelist and poet

Carolyn Warner (1992), page 135

“Climate breakdown could be rapid and unpredictable. We can no longer tinker around the edges and hope minor changes will avert collapse.”

George Monbiot (1963) English writer and political activist

The Earth is in a death spiral. It will take radical action to save us, 2018

“We may think as we like theoretically, about man’s freedom of action, we must practically start from it as the foundation of the moral law, for only under this condition is social morality possible.”

Eduard Bernstein (1850–1932) German politician

Source: "Evolutionary Socialism" (1899) https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/bernstein/works/1899/evsoc/index.htm, Chapter III, The Tasks and Possibilities of Social Democracy

“Be careful: in the last analysis, reality may be exactly what we think it is.”

Alan Moore (1953) English writer primarily known for his work in comic books

What Is Reality?
Context: Ideas, unlike solid structures, do not perish. They remain immortal, immaterial and everywhere, like all Divine things. Ideas are a golden, savage landscape that we wander unaware, without a map. Be careful: in the last analysis, reality may be exactly what we think it is.