Donella Meadows

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

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. ”

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. ”

Corporate responsibility extends not only to the customers, the resources and the workers of the present, but also to those of the future. ”

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. ”

Growth is a stupid goal. So, by the way, is no-growth. ”