Donella Meadows

“You maybe able to fool the voters, but not the atmosphere.”

— Donella Meadows

Glaciers are almost gone from Glacier National Park

— Donella Meadows

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

— Donella Meadows

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

— Donella Meadows

Once again I stopped listening to the news this week.

— Donella Meadows

The climate continues to deteriorate.

— Donella Meadows

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

— Donella Meadows

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

— Donella Meadows

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

— Donella Meadows

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

— Donella Meadows

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

— Donella Meadows

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

— Donella Meadows

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

— Donella Meadows

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

— Donella Meadows

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

— Donella Meadows

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

— Donella Meadows

No expectations, no tension between goals and performance, no outrage, resolve or intention, no action, no results. There's only one way to…

— Donella Meadows

Relative to most of the energy and material flows on Earth, the machinations of humankind are puny. The planet's powers are much,…

— Donella Meadows

We know it is impossible to go on finding, moving and wasting oil, leveling forests, paving land, dumping poisons, and multiplying our…

— Donella Meadows

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

— Donella Meadows

Why is our (US) government the only one in the civilized world with a stupid, short-term energy policy? Why do our elected…

— Donella Meadows

I know that war and mayhem run in our blood. I refuse to believe that they must dominate our lives. We humans…

— Donella Meadows

The sustainability revolution will be organic. It will arise from the visions, insights, experiments and actions of billions of people. The burden…

— Donella Meadows

Social services, not wealth per se, seem to be the key to lower birth rates. The Chinese, although among the poorest peoples…

— Donella Meadows

I call the transformed world toward which we can move ‘sustainable,’ by which I mean a great deal more than a world…

— Donella Meadows

World fertility surveys indicate that anywhere from one third to one half of the babies born in the Third World would not…

— Donella Meadows

We have come to expect campaigns to be mean and stupid and politicians to be unresponsive, self-seeking and for sale to the…

— Donella Meadows

Some call-in moderators are neutral and courteous. Then there's Rush Limbaugh, who is funny and pompous and a scapegoater and hatemonger. His…

— Donella Meadows

Biodiversity can't be maintained by protecting a few species in a zoo, or by preserving greenbelts or national parks. To function properly,…

— Donella Meadows

The first commandment of economics is: Grow. Grow forever. Companies get bigger. National economies need to swell by a certain percent each…

— Donella Meadows

It's a fair guess that at the rate we're destroying habitat, especially but not exclusively in the tropics, we're pushing to extinction…

— Donella Meadows

Both the United States and the world economy have already reached - and surpassed - their sustainable physical limits. Ground water is…

— Donella Meadows

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

— Donella Meadows

The European nations take climate change very seriously.

— Donella Meadows

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

— Donella Meadows

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

— Donella Meadows

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

— Donella Meadows

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

— Donella Meadows

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

— Donella Meadows

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

— Donella Meadows