Donella Meadows Quotes - Page 2

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• 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

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  Party, Wings, Oil

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• You should issue demerits for tree cutting or the destruction of humus.

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  Cutting, Issues, Tree

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• Mesarovic and Pestel are critical of the Forrester-Meadows world view, which is that of a homogeneous system with a fully predetermined evolution in time once the initial conditions are specified.

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  Views, World, Evolution

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• I spent my time trying to understand grand jury procedure - a topic about which I never before had the slightest interest.

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  Trying, Topics, Procedures

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

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  Cutting, Germany, Netherlands

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• 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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  Permit, Release, Court

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• George W. cares as much about climate change as you would expect from a Texas oilman

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  Texas, Climate, Care

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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.

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  Trust, Reason, Lied

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• There have been high crimes and misdemeanors, but they have been committed by the special prosecutor and the Congress, not the president.

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  Hype, Special, President

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• The climate continues to deteriorate.

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  Aggravation, Climate

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• Why is our (US) government the only one in the civilized world with a stupid, short-term energy policy? Why do our elected officials consider a European or Japanese-type energy tax not only unpassable but undiscussable?

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  Stupid, Government, Energy

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• How do we appreciate the good without letting it be the enemy of the perfect? How do we keep a step in the right direction from becoming a stopping point? How do we get beyond shades of insipid light green?

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  Light, Appreciate, Perfect

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• Glaciers are almost gone from Glacier National Park

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  National Parks, Gone, Parks

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• A grand jury hears only one side - that of the prosecutor

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  Sides, Jury, Prosecutor

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• The European nations take climate change very seriously.

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  Europe, Climate, Politics

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• The grand jury's job is not to weigh the evidence from both sides; it is only to decide whether there is enough evidence on one side to bring a person to trial.

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  Jobs, Trials, Sides

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

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  Tasks, Forests, Politician

  "No Point in Waiting Around for Leadership". The Global Citizen, November 30, 2000.

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