Donella Meadows

Like the other great revolutions, an environmental revolution will require sacrifices and lead to enormous gains. It, too, will change the face of the land and human institutions, hierarchies, self-definitions, cultures. It will take centuries. If it happens. There is no guarantee, of course. ”

The European nations take climate change very seriously. ”

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

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. ”

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. ”

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

We have witnessed Chernobyl, Bhopal, Challenger, Seveso, Amoco Cadiz, Three Mile Island and have still not wakened from our fantasy that large organizations can carry out complex technologies on a huge scale with total perfection. ”

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

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

The climate continues to deteriorate. ”