The Climate Continues To Deteriorate.

Any System, Biological, Economic, Or Social, That Gets So Encrusted That It Cannot Self-evolve, A System That Systematically Scorns Experimentation And Wipes Out The Raw Material Of Innovation, Is Doomed Over The Long Term On This Highly Variable Planet.

A Vision Should Be Judged By The Clarity Of Its Values, Not The Clarity Of Its Implementation Path [in Mediated Modeling Page 43]

A Grand Jury Hears Only One Side - That Of The Prosecutor

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 Purpose Of Human Existence. All Growth Is Not Good. The Environment Is A Necessity, Not A Luxury. There Is Such A Thing As Enough.

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.