Quotes by Donella Meadows

Donella Meadows

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

Goal

Leader

Moving

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

Jury

Prosecutor

Sides

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

Climate

Environmental

President

A system is a set of things people, cells, molecules, or whatever interconnected in such a way that they produce their own pattern of behavior over time… The system, to a large extent, causes its own behavior.

Cells

Molecules

People

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

Pages

Path

Vision

Any system, biological, economic, or social, that gets so encrusted that it cannot self-evolve, a system that systematically scorns experimentation and wipes out the raw material of innovation, is doomed over the long term on this highly variable planet.

Innovation

Long

Self

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.

National Parks

Needs

Zoos

Calculating how much carbon is absorbed by which forests and farms is a tricky task, especially when politicians do it.

Forests

Politician

Tasks

Denmark, the Netherlands and Germany have detailed plans to cut their greenhouse emissions by 20 to 50 percent.

Cutting

Germany

Netherlands

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

Commandments

Delay

Information

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Aggravation

Agreement

Appreciate

Atmosphere

Boundaries

Care

Cells

Climate

Commandments

Complexes

Court

Cutting

Delay

Democracy

Despair

Diversity

Dream

Earth

Ecosystems

Energy

Environmental

Europe

Evolution

Figures

Forests

Friends

Future

Germany

Goal

Gone

Government

Groups

Growth

Hype

Impact

Information

Innovation

Issues

Jobs

Jury

Justice

Leader

Lied

Light

Long

Luxury

Mean

Mistake

Models

Molecules

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Quotes by Donella Meadows

Donella Meadows

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

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

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

A system is a set of things people, cells, molecules, or whatever interconnected in such a way that they produce their own pattern of behavior over time… The system, to a large extent, causes its own behavior.

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

Any system, biological, economic, or social, that gets so encrusted that it cannot self-evolve, a system that systematically scorns experimentation and wipes out the raw material of innovation, is doomed over the long term on this highly variable planet.

Calculating how much carbon is absorbed by which forests and farms is a tricky task, especially when politicians do it.

Denmark, the Netherlands and Germany have detailed plans to cut their greenhouse emissions by 20 to 50 percent.

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

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