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If we emit massive quantities of untested chemicals into the environment, some of them are bound to end up in places that surprise us, doing things that endanger us.

~Donella Meadows

Topics: Bound Chemicals Doing End Endanger Environment Massive Places Quantities Some Surprise Them Things Up Us

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The human world is a long way from meeting the needs of the present, and it is borrowing massively from the future - not only by piling up money debt, but also by degrading the resources from which all real wealth ultimately comes.

~Donella Meadows

Topics: Also Borrowing Debt Degrading Future Human Long Long Way Massively Meeting Money Needs Only Present Real Resources Ultimately Up Way Wealth Which World

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

~Donella Meadows

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We have come to expect campaigns to be mean and stupid and politicians to be unresponsive, self-seeking and for sale to the highest bidder. We make jokes about our vice president, and all we ask of a president is that he be likeable. We seem to have given up on the Pentagon's corrupt use of our tax dollars.

~Donella Meadows

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The actions of my government are not bearable. They devastate our natural resources and deprive our people. The politicians speak piously while practicing greed and divisiveness. They care nothing for the nation. I want to do more than withdraw my support. I want to tar and feather them.

~Donella Meadows

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Before they got vengeful, conservatives had some useful points to make about welfare. Government 'help' is too often guilt-assuaging gesture. It creates layers of wasteful bureaucracy. Too much help of the wrong sort creates a culture of dependency that swamps our ability to provide.

~Donella Meadows

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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.

~Donella Meadows

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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.

~Donella Meadows

Topics: Around Car Crashes Development Dumb Efficient Energy Growth Looking More Oil Smart Sources

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Smart development builds on a region's own skills, resources and local businesses. Dumb growth invites a big corporation in, surrenders control and profits to a distant headquarters, undercuts local manufacturers, and risks layoffs without warning.

~Donella Meadows

Topics: Big Builds Businesses Control Corporation Development Distant Dumb Growth Headquarters Invites Layoffs Local Manufacturers Own Profits Region Resources Risks Skills Smart Warning Without

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Environmentalist

Born: March 14th, 1941

Died: February 20th, 2001

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