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Creativity Quote by Jim Sullivan

"It's up to people like us, all of us, to address and talk about things like runaway global warming and how we can use things like remote viewing to save our planet"

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There is a particular kind of late-20th-century pop mysticism baked into Jim Sullivan's line: the earnest insistence that the apocalypse is real, imminent, and somehow fixable if we just widen the definition of "tools" to include the paranormal. The sentence runs on like a breathless pitch, piling "things like" on top of "things like", as if sheer accumulation can make "remote viewing" feel as practical as solar panels. That's the rhetorical move: blur the boundary between a scientifically legible crisis (runaway global warming) and a culturally alluring workaround (ESP) until they share the same urgency and plausibility.

As a musician, Sullivan isn't speaking with the institutional authority of a scientist or policymaker; he's leveraging a different kind of credibility: vibe, intuition, moral pressure. "People like us, all of us" is an invitation and a mild guilt-trip, a community chant that collapses expertise into collective responsibility. It's democratic, and it's also evasive: when everyone is accountable, no one has to specify a plan.

The subtext is less "remote viewing will literally save the planet" than "the systems we trust are failing, so imagination has to step in". In an era when climate dread competes with conspiracy-laced wellness culture and algorithmic misinformation, the quote reads like a snapshot of how desperation recruits belief. It captures a contemporary impulse to treat planetary collapse as a spiritual problem with spiritual hacks, and to turn advocacy into a genre of performance: urgent, communal, and just untethered enough to feel like hope.

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Sullivan, Jim. (2026, January 16). It's up to people like us, all of us, to address and talk about things like runaway global warming and how we can use things like remote viewing to save our planet. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/its-up-to-people-like-us-all-of-us-to-address-and-126358/

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Sullivan, Jim. "It's up to people like us, all of us, to address and talk about things like runaway global warming and how we can use things like remote viewing to save our planet." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/its-up-to-people-like-us-all-of-us-to-address-and-126358/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"It's up to people like us, all of us, to address and talk about things like runaway global warming and how we can use things like remote viewing to save our planet." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/its-up-to-people-like-us-all-of-us-to-address-and-126358/. Accessed 9 Feb. 2026.

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Jim Sullivan (born February 14, 1941) is a Musician from England.

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