Corporations Tell Us All About the Environment
By Donella Meadows
–August 1, 1991–
The friendly folks at the U.S. Fertilizer Institute are waging a campaign against manure. The word “manure” has a wholesome connotation that is simply not appropriate, say the fertilizer makers. You should not think of manure as a “warm, fuzzy substance.” Henceforth please refer to it as “fecal contamination.”
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Allergic to the Twentieth Century
By Donella Meadows
–August 17, 1989–
Until she was 26 Annie Berthold-Bond had never had a medical problem. That year her husband Daniel was a graduate student at Yale, and she had just finished art school and was working as a waitress. One day there was a gas leak at work. “Lots of people passed out. I didn’t, but now I see [...]
