The Climate Continues To Deteriorate.

It Is Not Ok In This Culture To Talk To Friends About Causes You Believe In, Much Less To Ask Them To Join In. It's Ok To Blast Perfect Strangers With Crass Messages Every Hour Of The Day, But It's A Tinge Embarrassing, It Brings Up Some Shyness, It Seems An Intrusion, It Risks Rejection To Share Real Heartfelt Commitments. It's Easier To Share Our Cynicism With Strangers Than Our Dreams With Friends.

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.

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

We Don't Think A Sustainable Society Need Be Stagnant, Boring, Uniform, Or Rigid. It Need Not Be, And Probably Could Not Be, Centrally Controlled Or Authoritarian. It Could Be A World That Has The Time, The Resources, And The Will To Correct Its Mistakes, To Innovate, To Preserve The Fertility Of Its Planetary Ecosystems. It Could Focus On Mindfully Increasing Quality Of Life Rather Than On Mindlessly Expanding Material Consumption And The Physical Capital Stock.

Mesarovic And Pestel Are Critical Of The Forrester-meadows World View, Which Is That Of A Homogeneous System With A Fully Predetermined Evolution In Time Once The Initial Conditions Are Specified.