Denmark, the Netherlands and Germany have detailed plans to cut their greenhouse emissions by 20 to 50 percent. Donella Meadows Read Quote
George W. cares as much about climate change as you would expect from a Texas oilman. Donella Meadows Read Quote
Scientists worldwide agree that the reduction needed to stabilize the climate is actually more like 80 percent. Donella Meadows Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
