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  • Environmental Writer
  • 1941 - 2001
  • 83 quotes

Donella Meadows, Environmental Writer (1941 - 2001), is quoted 83 times on QuoteForever. The subjects that come up most often are Climate, Jury, Grand and Prosecutor.

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The climate continues to deteriorate.

Glaciers are almost gone from Glacier National Park

Glaciers are almost gone from Glacier National Park.

Once again I stopped listening to the news this week.

Growth is a stupid goal. So, by the way, is no-growth.

The European nations take climate change very seriously.

A grand jury hears only one side - that of the prosecutor

A grand jury hears only one side - that of the prosecutor.

You may be able to fool the voters, but not the atmosphere.

You should issue demerits for tree cutting or the destruction of humus.

We can't control systems or figure them out. But we can dance with them!

Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not distort, delay, or sequester information

George W. cares as much about climate change as you would expect from a Texas oilman

George W. cares as much about climate change as you would expect from a Texas oilman.

There is too much bad news to justify complacency. There is too much good news to justify despair.

Models can easily become so complex that they are impenetrable, unexaminable, and virtually unalterable.

The latest scientific assessment has almost doubled the predicted rate of warming if no changes are made.

Scientists worldwide agree that the reduction needed to stabilize the climate is actually more like 80 percent.

Denmark, the Netherlands and Germany have detailed plans to cut their greenhouse emissions by 20 to 50 percent.

A good leader sets the right goals, gets things moving, and helps us to discover that we already know what to do.

Calculating how much carbon is absorbed by which forests and farms is a tricky task, especially when politicians do it.

I spent my time trying to understand grand jury procedure - a topic about which I never before had the slightest interest.

A knowledgeable and courageous U.S. president could help enormously in leading the world's nations toward saving the climate.

A vision should be judged by the clarity of its values, not the clarity of its implementation path [in Mediated Modeling page 43]

Since the Earth is finite, and we will have to stop expanding sometime, should we do it before or after nature's diversity is gone?

There have been high crimes and misdemeanors, but they have been committed by the special prosecutor and the Congress, not the president.

Corporate responsibility extends not only to the customers, the resources and the workers of the present, but also to those of the future.

There are no separate systems. The world is a continuum. Where to draw a boundary around a system depends on the purpose of the discussion.

Smart development invests in insulation, efficient cars, and ever-renewed sources of energy. Dumb growth crashes around looking for more oil.

We are dependent not so much on Earth, the third planet orbiting the sun, as on Gaea, the integrated system that includes, sustains and is shaped by life.

I'm a talk-show junkie. I'd rather listen to real folks stumbling to express their own thoughts than to polished puppets reading what others have written.

The grand jury's job is not to weigh the evidence from both sides; it is only to decide whether there is enough evidence on one side to bring a person to trial.

In 1994 the U.S. Court of Appeals decided in the case of Oliver North to permit the release of grand jury evidence, because it had already been so thoroughly leaked

In 1994 the U.S. Court of Appeals decided in the case of Oliver North to permit the release of grand jury evidence, because it had already been so thoroughly leaked.

Your paradigm is so intrinsic to your mental process that you are hardly aware of its existence, until you try to communicate with someone with a different paradigm.

If we emit massive quantities of untested chemicals into the environment, some of them are bound to end up in places that surprise us, doing things that endanger us.

Every policy is shaped by two forces: background analysis and foreground politics. The political forces are loud, self-serving and, in the case of energy policy, well known.

The kind of support the down-and-out need is the kind we have always refused them, the kind that would mean engaging with them not as objects of contempt, but as fellow human beings.

We don't need bigger cars or fancier clothes. We need self-respect, identity, community, love, variety, beauty, challenge and a purpose in living that is greater than material accumulation.

What Clinton did with Lewinsky was despicable but was no threat to the nation. That he lied about it repeatedly and to the public is a reason for us to cease to trust him and for him to resign.

Mesarovic and Pestel are critical of the Forrester-Meadows world view, which is that of a homogeneous system with a fully predetermined evolution in time once the initial conditions are specified.

We know it is impossible to go on finding, moving and wasting oil, leveling forests, paving land, dumping poisons, and multiplying our numbers. A new way of life, a new set of thoughts must be found.

Everyone except the far right wing of the Republican Party realizes that oil, gas and coal burning are the main activities that have sent the climate into bigger floods, droughts, hurricanes, and El Ninos

Everyone except the far right wing of the Republican Party realizes that oil, gas and coal burning are the main activities that have sent the climate into bigger floods, droughts, hurricanes, and El Ninos.

How do we appreciate the good without letting it be the enemy of the perfect? How do we keep a step in the right direction from becoming a stopping point? How do we get beyond shades of insipid light green?

The scarcest resource is not oil, metals, clean air, capital, labour, or technology. It is our willingness to listen to each other and learn from each other and to seek the truth rather than seek to be right

We wouldn't have to speak so critically if businesses would stop feeding dead animals to live ones, putting non-food substances into food, tinkering with genetic codes, and spraying the countryside with poisons.

A system is a set of things people, cells, molecules, or whatever interconnected in such a way that they produce their own pattern of behavior over time... The system, to a large extent, causes its own behavior.

Recession-resistant development produces things people need. Unsustainable growth churns out tinsel products that consumers have to be seduced into buying - until times get tough, when they quickly give them up.

We don't need new laws that can be used by organizations with deep pockets and the ability to deduct legal expenses as a cost of doing business to intimidate individuals or organizations that voice legitimate concerns.

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