All Donella Meadows Quotes
- Scientists worldwide agree that the reduction needed to stabilize the climate is actually more like 80 percent. Agree
- There is too much bad news to justify complacency. There is too much good news to justify despair. Bad
- A vision should be judged by the clarity of its values, not the clarity of its implementation path [in Mediated Modeling page 43] Clarity
- World fertility surveys indicate that anywhere from one third to one half of the babies born in the Third World would not be if their… Access
- Social services, not wealth per se, seem to be the key to lower birth rates. The Chinese, although among the poorest peoples of the world,… Among
- 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,… Analysis
- We have witnessed Chernobyl, Bhopal, Challenger, Seveso, Amoco Cadiz, Three Mile Island and have still not wakened from our fantasy that large organizations can carry… Amoco
- 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… Bound
- The human world is a long way from meeting the needs of the present, and it is borrowing massively from the future - not only… All
- Corporate responsibility extends not only to the customers, the resources and the workers of the present, but also to those of the future. Corporate
- Growth is a stupid goal. So, by the way, is no-growth. Goal
- The actions of my government are not bearable. They devastate our natural resources and deprive our people. The politicians speak piously while practicing greed and… Actions
- 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… Always Refused
- Smart development invests in insulation, efficient cars, and ever-renewed sources of energy. Dumb growth crashes around looking for more oil. Around Looking
- Both the United States and the world economy have already reached - and surpassed - their sustainable physical limits. Ground water is being drawn down,… Already Reached
- 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,… Buying
- 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… Dumping
- Like the other great revolutions, an environmental revolution will require sacrifices and lead to enormous gains. It, too, will change the face of the land… Centuries
- There is hardly a place on Earth where people do not log, pave, spray, drain, flood, graze, fish, plow, burn, drill, spill or dump. There… Burn
- 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… Dependent
- I know that war and mayhem run in our blood. I refuse to believe that they must dominate our lives. We humans are animals, too,… Amazing
- The latest scientific assessment has almost doubled the predicted rate of warming if no changes are made. Almost Doubled
- Once again I stopped listening to the news this week. Listening
- 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… Aware