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The climate continues to deteriorate.
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The European nations take climate change very seriously.
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The Earth was formed whole and continuous in the Universe, without lines.
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A knowledgeable and courageous U.S. president could help enormously in leading the world's nations toward saving the climate.
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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.
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Managers do not solve problems, they manage messes.
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Systems thinkers see the world as a collection of stocks along with the mechanisms for regulating the levels in the stocks by manipulating flows.
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There have been high crimes and misdemeanors, but they have been committed by the special prosecutor and the Congress, not the president.
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Loss of resilience can come as a surprise, because the system usually is paying much more attention to its play than to its playing space.
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Once again I stopped listening to the news this week.
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You maybe able to fool the voters, but not the atmosphere.
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There is too much bad news to justify complacency. There is too much good news to justify despair.
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A system consists of elements, interconnections, and a purpose. Changing elements usually has the least effect on the system.
— Donella H. Meadows
I spent my time trying to understand grand jury procedure - a topic about which I never before had the slightest interest.
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A good leader sets the right goals, gets things moving, and helps us to discover that we already know what to do.
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A grand jury hears only one side - that of the prosecutor.
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Scientists worldwide agree that the reduction needed to stabilize the climate is actually more like 80 percent.
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Growth is a stupid goal. So, by the way, is no-growth.
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George W. cares as much about climate change as you would expect from a Texas oilman.
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Smart development invests in insulation, efficient cars, and ever-renewed sources of energy. Dumb growth crashes around looking for more oil.
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Corporate responsibility extends not only to the customers, the resources and the workers of the present, but also to those of the future.
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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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Denmark, the Netherlands and Germany have detailed plans to cut their greenhouse emissions by 20 to 50 percent.
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The behavior of a system cannot be known just by knowing the elements of which the system is made.
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A vision should be judged by the clarity of its values, not the clarity of its implementation path [in Mediated Modeling page 43] — Donella H. Meadows
We can't control systems or figure them out. But we can dance with them!
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Models can easily become so complex that they are impenetrable, unexaminable, and virtually unalterable.
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If you have a sense of the rates of change of stocks, you don't expect things to happen faster than they can happen. You don't give up too soon.
— Donella H. Meadows
Calculating how much carbon is absorbed by which forests and farms is a tricky task, especially when politicians do it.
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The latest scientific assessment has almost doubled the predicted rate of warming if no changes are made.
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Glaciers are almost gone from Glacier National Park.
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You should issue demerits for tree cutting or the destruction of humus.
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