The Scarcest Resource Is Not Oil, Metals,

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

You May Be Able To Fool The Voters, But Not The Atmosphere.

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.

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.

A System Is A Set Of Things People, Cells, Molecules, Or Whatever Interconnected In Such A Way That They Produce Their Own Pattern Of Behavior Over Time... The System, To A Large Extent, Causes Its Own Behavior.