Donella Meadows Quotes About Earth
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The first commandment of economics is: Grow. Grow forever. Companies get bigger. National economies need to swell by a certain percent each year. People should want more, make more, earn more, spend more - ever more. The first commandment of the Earth is: enough. Just so much and no more. Just so much soil. Just so much water. Just so much sunshine. Everything born of the Earth grows to its appropriate size and then stops.
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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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I call the transformed world toward which we can move ‘sustainable,’ by which I mean a great deal more than a world that merely sustains itself unchanged. I mean a world that evolves, as life on earth has evolved for three billion years, toward ever greater diversity, elegance, beauty, self-awareness, interrelationship, and spiritual realization.
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Donella Meadows
- Born: March 13, 1941
- Died: February 20, 2001
- Occupation: Environmental Writer