Models can easily become so complex that they are impenetrable, unexaminable, and virtually unalterable.
No one can define or measure justice, democracy, security, freedom, truth, or love. No one can define or measure any value. But if no one speaks up f… - Donella Meadows
No one can define or measure justice, democracy, security, freedom, truth, or love. No one can define or measure any value. But if no one speaks up f…
- Donella Meadows
The scarcest resource is not oil, metals, clean air, capital, labour, or technology. It is our willingness to listen to each other and learn from eac… - Donella Meadows
The scarcest resource is not oil, metals, clean air, capital, labour, or technology. It is our willingness to listen to each other and learn from eac…
There are no separate systems. The world is a continuum. Where to draw a boundary around a system depends on the purpose of the discussion. - Donella Meadows
There are no separate systems. The world is a continuum. Where to draw a boundary around a system depends on the purpose of the discussion.
The sustainability revolution will be organic. It will arise from the visions, insights, experiments and actions of billions of people. The burden of… - Donella Meadows
The sustainability revolution will be organic. It will arise from the visions, insights, experiments and actions of billions of people. The burden of…
A system is a set of things people, cells, molecules, or whatever interconnected in such a way that they produce their own pattern of behavior over t… - Donella Meadows
A system is a set of things people, cells, molecules, or whatever interconnected in such a way that they produce their own pattern of behavior over t…
Speak the truth. Speak it loud and often, calmly but insistently, and speak it, as the Quakers say, to power. Material accumulation is not the pur… - Donella Meadows
Speak the truth. Speak it loud and often, calmly but insistently, and speak it, as the Quakers say, to power. Material accumulation is not the pur…
We can't control systems or figure them out. But we can dance with them! - Donella Meadows
We can't control systems or figure them out. But we can dance with them!
Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not distort, delay, or sequester information - Donella Meadows
Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not distort, delay, or sequester information
Since the Earth is finite, and we will have to stop expanding sometime, should we do it before or after nature's diversity is gone? - Donella Meadows
Since the Earth is finite, and we will have to stop expanding sometime, should we do it before or after nature's diversity is gone?
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