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

Environmental World President Saving Could Leading Toward Knowledgeable Courageous Climate Nations Help

Everyone 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 Meadows

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. Donella Meadows

Thoroughly Evidence Release Case Had Leaked Because Court Permit Been North Jury Decided Grand Grand Jury Appeals Oliver

Once again I stopped listening to the news this week. Donella Meadows

News Listening Once Week Stopped Again

The European nations take climate change very seriously. Donella Meadows

Change Seriously Take Climate Climate Change Very Nations European European Nations

The latest scientific assessment has almost doubled the predicted rate of warming if no changes are made. Donella Meadows

Made Changes Latest Rate Almost Scientific Predicted Warming Assessment

Every policy is shaped by two forces: background analysis and foreground politics. The political forces are loud, self-serving and, in the case of energy policy, well known. Donella Meadows

Politics Political Energy Every Analysis Background Case Shaped Well Policy Well Known Forces Known Foreground Self-Serving Loud Energy Policy Two

We don't need new laws that can be used by organizations with deep pockets and the ability to deduct legal expenses as a cost of doing business to intimidate individuals or organizations that voice legitimate concerns. Donella Meadows

Business Legal Intimidate Ability Cost Pockets Laws Voice Individuals New Concerns Doing Expenses Legitimate Used Organizations Deep Need

No one wants growth, constant expansion, physical swelling. Growth is not a human value; it's a means to the ends of sufficiency and security. Once we have enough, no one wants more, unless it is sold to us as a cheap substitute for something else, something non-material. Donella Meadows

Value Enough Else Unless Sold Once Security Constant Physical Something Something Else More No-One Cheap Expansion Human Ends Substitute Wants Us Means Swelling Growth

Corporate responsibility extends not only to the customers, the resources and the workers of the present, but also to those of the future. Donella Meadows

Future Responsibility Resources Corporate Those Only Also Customers Workers Present

Growth is a stupid goal. So, by the way, is no-growth. Donella Meadows

Stupid Way Goal Growth

Before they got vengeful, conservatives had some useful points to make about welfare. Government 'help' is too often guilt-assuaging gesture. It creates layers of wasteful bureaucracy. Too much help of the wrong sort creates a culture of dependency that swamps our ability to provide. Donella Meadows

Government Culture Welfare Too Much Before Gesture Too Conservatives Our Ability Some About Layers Points Had Wrong Vengeful Make Sort Got Provide Bureaucracy Often Dependency Much Creates Useful Help Wasteful

Ending poverty calls for humility, honesty, freedom from ideology and refusal to accept cruel simplicities about anyone's human potential. It requires listening to the wisdom and cutting the nonsense from both the Right and the Left. Donella Meadows

Wisdom Freedom Honesty Ending Listening Poverty Ideology Humility About Potential Both Cruel Freedom From Accept Calls Nonsense Left Human Refusal Anyone Cutting Requires Right

Recession-resistant development produces things people need. Unsustainable growth churns out tinsel products that consumers have to be seduced into buying - until times get tough, when they quickly give them up. Donella Meadows

Relative to most of the energy and material flows on Earth, the machinations of humankind are puny. The planet's powers are much, much bigger than our own. But in a few sensitive places, we're making an impact on a planetary scale, and that impact is not a good one. Donella Meadows

No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means. Garrett Hardin

Environmental Wilderness Enter Able No-One Should Means Mechanical

Moreover, the practical recommendations deduced from ecological principles threaten the vested interests of commerce; it is hardly surprising that the financial and political power created by these investments should be used sometimes to suppress environmental impact studies. Garrett Hardin

Environmental Financial Sometimes Political Political Power Power Recommendations Threaten Impact Ecological Moreover Studies Investments Suppress Practical Principles Surprising Commerce Vested Vested Interests Created Interests Should Used Hardly

A coldly rationalist individualist can deny that he has any obligation to make sacrifices for the future. Garrett Hardin

Future Obligation Sacrifices He Individualist Make Deny Any

The optimum population is, then, less than the maximum. Garrett Hardin

Than Optimum Maximum Then Less Population

Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust? Garrett Hardin

Family Bible Trust Fear Panicked We Cannot Morality Disappearance Leads Decay Cannot Disintegration Them Ask Certainty Apparent Fundamentalists

Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all. Garrett Hardin

Freedom Ruin Commons Brings

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