Saving the Planet Starts with Doing Your Homework
By Donella Meadows
–April 29, 1993–
Kids who want to do something to help the environment get a lot of advice from the media, much of it wrong.
For example, in a Wall Street Journal column Jonathan Adler of the Competitive Enterprise Institute rightfully complains about a Florida TV program that warns children against ozone-destroying chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) in spray cans and in those [...]
Dear Folks: January 23, 1993
Dear Folks,
It’s 4:30 Saturday afternoon and the last act of Meistersinger is coming over the radio from the Met. The daylight is nearly gone. The days are still short, but not as short as they were in Germany, and we’re a month past the solstice. I’m already thinking of spring. The seed packets are arriving in the mail, and I [...]
Improving Child Health Without Shifting the Burden
By Donella Meadows
–October 10, 1991–
U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, Louis W. Sullivan, wrote a newspaper column last week to celebrate Child Health Day. In it he told us what’s really wrong with our kids’ health. The reason their mortality is higher than that of other industrialized nations, he said, the reason they die in accidents, go unvaccinated, suffer [...]
Out of the Mouths of the Babes
By Donella Meadows
–June 9, 1988–
Given what’s at stake, the world’s people can be grateful for a summit at which superpower leaders practice politeness with one another, even if no other progress is made. But as the recent summit was taking place, I happened to pick up a small journal called “Nuclear Concerns and Humankind”, which reminded me that we who [...]
