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.

Denmark, the Netherlands and Germany have detailed plans to cut their greenhouse emissions by 20 to 50 percent.

There have been high crimes and misdemeanors, but they have been committed by the special prosecutor and the Congress, not the president.

A grand jury hears only one side - that of the prosecutor

Scientists worldwide agree that the reduction needed to stabilize the climate is actually more like 80 percent.

You may be able to fool the voters, but not the atmosphere.

A knowledgeable and courageous U.S. president could help enormously in leading the world's nations toward saving the climate.

Calculating how much carbon is absorbed by which forests and farms is a tricky task, especially when politicians do it.

There are no separate systems. The world is a continuum. Where to draw a boundary around a system depends on the purpose of the discussion.

We can't control systems or figure them out. But we can dance with them!

Glaciers are almost gone from Glacier National Park

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

The reality is we are 0-3. The reality is that we can still be a very good football team. We need to show that on Monday night.

I play basketball on Sundays and I'm a very spiritual guy; I read a lot of Eastern philosophy and I meditate.

There is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.

Superstitions typically involve seeing order where in fact there is none, and denial amounts to rejecting evidence of regularities, sometimes even ones that are staring us in the face.

Apart from their goals, Norway haven't scored.

The secret of great cathedrals is that their proportions conform to cosmic laws, 'shaping' people who spend time in them.

I know the nature of comedy, and you never know what will happen with the next movie or whether people will find it funny.

Give what thou canst, without Thee we are poor; And with Thee rich, take what Thou wilt away.

All we want is to be treated like human beings, and not to be patronized, or experimented on like guinea pigs.