Donella Meadows Quotes

You may be able to fool the voters, but not the atmosphere.
Donella Meadows

Environmental, Fool, May

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

Task, Tricky, Forests

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

Someone, Different, Try

A grand jury hears only one side - that of the prosecutor.
Donella Meadows

Side, Grand, Jury

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

Environmental, Help, President

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

Percent, Cut, Plans

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

Everyone, Far, Republican

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

Change, Expect, Texas

Glaciers are almost gone from Glacier National Park.
Donella Meadows

Almost, Gone, National

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

Time, Trying, Understand

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

Decided, Evidence, Court

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

Again, Once, Week

Scientists worldwide agree that the reduction needed to stabilize the climate is actually more like 80 percent.
Donella Meadows

Science, Actually, Percent

The climate continues to deteriorate.
Donella Meadows

Climate, Continues

The European nations take climate change very seriously.
Donella Meadows

Change, Seriously, Nations

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.
Donella Meadows

Job, Person, Enough

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

Made, Almost, Changes

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, High, President

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

Trust, Him, Reason

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

Tree, Issue, Cutting

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Environmentalist

Born: March 14, 1941

Died: February 20, 2001

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