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
government people support
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 divisiveness; they care nothing for the nation. I want to do more than withdraw my support. I want to tar and feather them.
zoos needs national-parks
Biodiversity can't be maintained by protecting a few species in a zoo, or by preserving greenbelts or national parks. To function properly, nature needs more room than that. It can maintain itself, however, without human expense, without zookeepers, park rangers, foresters or gene banks. All it needs is to be left alone.
luxury growth purpose
Speak the truth. Speak it loud and often, calmly but insistently, and speak it, as the Quakers say, to power. Material accumulation is not the purpose of human existence. All growth is not good. The environment is a necessity, not a luxury. There is such a thing as enough.
environmental president world
A knowledgeable and courageous U.S. president could help enormously in leading the world's nations toward saving the climate.
figures
We can't control systems or figure them out. But we can dance with them!
world purpose boundaries
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.
science agreement climate
Scientists worldwide agree that the reduction needed to stabilize the climate is actually more like 80 percent.
future technology oil
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
clinton guess happen himself knew special
Clinton is a special defendant. He knew he was being videotaped, he could guess what would happen to that tape, he conducted himself accordingly.
appeals case decided grand north permit release thoroughly
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.
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If the world were a village of 100 people, ... there would be 60 Asians, 14 Africans, 12 Europeans, eight people from Central and South America, Mexico and the Caribbean, five from the U.S.A. and Canada, and one from Australia or New Zealand.
anyone beyond charge
The first one was much nicer. It was spontaneous and unorganized. It went beyond what anyone in charge wanted.
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A knowledgeable and courageous U.S. president could help enormously in leading the world's nations toward saving the climate.