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" Glaciers are almost gone from Glacier National Park. "
Donella Meadows
Almost
National Park
Park
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" 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. "
Donella Meadows
Nation
Him
Trust
" 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
Oil
Republican
Right
" At town meetings, you can see the shy folks, the ones who have trouble sounding off in public, leaning against the back wall or bending over their knitting. On talk radio, those people are invisible, but they're there. It's a mistake to think that the blowhards who call in speak for the nation. "
Donella Meadows
Think
Speak
People
" 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
Only
Future
Present
" We wouldn't have to speak so critically if businesses would stop feeding dead animals to live ones, putting non-food substances into food, tinkering with genetic codes, and spraying the countryside with poisons. "
Donella Meadows
Stop
Speak
Dead
" Scientists worldwide agree that the reduction needed to stabilize the climate is actually more like 80 percent. "
Donella Meadows
More
Agree
Percent
" What I hear every day on talk radio is America's lack of education - and I don't mean lack of college degrees. I mean lack of the basic art of democracy, the ability to seek the great truths that can come only by synthesizing the small truths possessed by each of us. "
Donella Meadows
Democracy
Education
Great
" I'm a talk-show junkie. I'd rather listen to real folks stumbling to express their own thoughts than to polished puppets reading what others have written. "
Donella Meadows
Reading
Own
Others
" Your paradigm is so intrinsic to your mental process that you are hardly aware of its existence, until you try to communicate with someone with a different paradigm. "
Donella Meadows
Try
Process
Someone
" There have been high crimes and misdemeanors, but they have been committed by the special prosecutor and the Congress, not the president. "
Donella Meadows
Special
Been
Congress
" 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
Jury
Court
Evidence
" I spent my time trying to understand grand jury procedure - a topic about which I never before had the slightest interest. "
Donella Meadows
Trying
Jury
Never
" Calculating how much carbon is absorbed by which forests and farms is a tricky task, especially when politicians do it. "
Donella Meadows
Much
Task
Politicians
" Once again I stopped listening to the news this week. "
Donella Meadows
News
Again
Listening
" We don't need bigger cars or fancier clothes. We need self-respect, identity, community, love, variety, beauty, challenge and a purpose in living that is greater than material accumulation. "
Donella Meadows
Challenge
Need
Love
" If we emit massive quantities of untested chemicals into the environment, some of them are bound to end up in places that surprise us, doing things that endanger us. "
Donella Meadows
Doing
Surprise
End
" The kind of support the down-and-out need is the kind we have always refused them, the kind that would mean engaging with them not as objects of contempt, but as fellow human beings. "
Donella Meadows
Mean
Need
Kind
" Both the United States and the world economy have already reached - and surpassed - their sustainable physical limits. Ground water is being drawn down, soils eroded, forests cut faster than they grow, fish caught faster than they reproduce, non-renewable fossil fuels burnt without developing substitutes. "
Donella Meadows
Down
World
Limits
" 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. "
Donella Meadows
Support
Care
People
" The climate continues to deteriorate. "
Donella Meadows
Deteriorate
Climate
" Smart development builds on a region's own skills, resources and local businesses. Dumb growth invites a big corporation in, surrenders control and profits to a distant headquarters, undercuts local manufacturers, and risks layoffs without warning. "
Donella Meadows
Own
Smart
Risks
" You should issue demerits for tree cutting or the destruction of humus. "
Donella Meadows
Should
Issue
You
" 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
Enough
Cheap
Growth
" 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. "
Donella Meadows
Nature
Zoo
Alone
" World fertility surveys indicate that anywhere from one third to one half of the babies born in the Third World would not be if their mothers had access to cheap, reliable family planning, had enough personal empowerment to stand up to their husbands and relatives, and could choose their own family size. "
Donella Meadows
World
Family
Stand Up
" 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
Culture
Too Much
Government
" The European nations take climate change very seriously. "
Donella Meadows
Take
Climate Change
Change
" 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
Freedom
Wisdom
Humility
" Denmark, the Netherlands and Germany have detailed plans to cut their greenhouse emissions by 20 to 50 percent. "
Donella Meadows
Percent
Plans
Germany
" We have come to expect campaigns to be mean and stupid and politicians to be unresponsive, self-seeking and for sale to the highest bidder. We make jokes about our vice president, and all we ask of a president is that he be likeable. We seem to have given up on the Pentagon's corrupt use of our tax dollars. "
Donella Meadows
Mean
Corrupt
Tax