"We don't think a sustainable society need be……" — Donella Meadows
"We don't think a sustainable society need be stagnant, boring, uniform, or rigid. It need not be, and probably could not be, centrally controlled or authoritarian. It could be a world that has the time, the resources, and the will to correct its mistakes, to innovate, to preserve the fertility of its planetary ecosystems. It could focus on mindfully increasing quality of life rather than on mindlessly expanding material consumption and the physical capital stock."
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49 Quotes by Donella Meadows
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A knowledgeable and courageous U.S. president could help enormously in leading the world's nations toward saving the climate.
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There are no separate systems. The world is a continuum. Where to draw a boundary around a system depends on…
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How do we appreciate the good without letting it be the enemy of the perfect? How do we keep a…
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I call the transformed world toward which we can move ‘sustainable,’ by which I mean a great deal more than a…
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The European nations take climate change very seriously.
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The grand jury's job is not to weigh the evidence from both sides; it is only to decide whether there…
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You should issue demerits for tree cutting or the destruction of humus.
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A grand jury hears only one side - that of the prosecutor
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Glaciers are almost gone from Glacier National Park
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