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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.

~Donella Meadows

Topics: Being Both Burnt Caught Cut Developing Down Drawn Economy Eroded Faster Fish Forests Fossil Fossil Fuels Fuels Ground Grow Limits Physical Reached Reproduce States Sustainable Than United United States Water Without World

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Environmentalist

Born: March 14th, 1941

Died: February 20th, 2001

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