I call the transformed world toward which we can move โsustainable,โ 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.
Donella MeadowsThere is too much bad news to justify complacency. There is too much good news to justify despair.
Donella MeadowsEveryone except the far right wing of the Republican Party realizes that oil, gas and coal burning are the main activities that have sent the climate into bigger floods, droughts, hurricanes, and El Ninos
Donella MeadowsGeorge W. cares as much about climate change as you would expect from a Texas oilman
Donella MeadowsNo one can define or measure justice, democracy, security, freedom, truth, or love. No one can define or measure any value. But if no one speaks up for them, if systems arenโt designed to produce them, if we donโt speak about them and point toward their presence or absence, they will cease to exist.
Donella Meadows