Donella Meadows
Donella Meadows
Donella H. "Dana" Meadowswas a pioneering American environmental scientist, teacher, and writer. She is best known as lead author of the influential book The Limits to Growth and Thinking in Systems: a Primer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEnvironmentalist
Date of Birth14 March 1941
CountryUnited States of America
views world evolution
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.
despair too-much complacency
There is too much bad news to justify complacency. There is too much good news to justify despair.
space impact addiction
It is in this space of mastery over paradigms that people throw off addictions, live in constant joy, bring down empires, get locked up or burned at the stake or crucified or shot, and have impacts that last for millennia.
diversity earth gone
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?
people vision credit
The sustainability revolution will be organic. It will arise from the visions, insights, experiments and actions of billions of people. The burden of making it happen is not on the shoulders of any one person or group. No one will get the credit, but everyone can contribute.
moving goal leader
A good leader sets the right goals, gets things moving, and helps us to discover that we already know what to do.
delay information commandments
Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not distort, delay, or sequester information
light appreciate perfect
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?
spiritual moving mean
I call the transformed world toward which we can move ‘sustainable,’ by which I mean a great deal more than a world that merely sustains itself unchanged. I mean a world that evolves, as life on earth has evolved for three billion years, toward ever greater diversity, elegance, beauty, self-awareness, interrelationship, and spiritual realization.
jobs trials sides
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.
climate climate-change nations
The European nations take climate change very seriously.
trust-no-one reason lied
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.
vision pages path
A vision should be judged by the clarity of its values, not the clarity of its implementation path [in Mediated Modeling page 43]
trying topics procedures
I spent my time trying to understand grand jury procedure - a topic about which I never before had the slightest interest.