“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.”
Quote by Donella Meadows
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Donella Meadows
Donella Meadows was an American environmental writer and systems thinker, recognized for her significant contributions to the field of environmental sustainability and systems dynamics. She was a senior associate at the MIT Sloan School of Management and co-founded the Sustainability Institute. Meadows is best known for her book 'The Limits to Growth', which she co-authored with Dennis Meadows, Jørgen Randers, and William W. Behrens III. more
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