Join In Nonviolent Resistance to a World Takeover Plot
by Donella Meadows
— January 14, 1999 —
I’m not in the habit of reading the annual report of the Coca-Cola Company, so I thank Adbusters magazine for bringing to my attention Coke’s insidious scheme to take over the world.
“One Billion Down,” says the cover of the company’s 1997 report. The first page says “47 Billion to Go.” The second page clarifies [...]
The Big Squeeze
By Donella Meadows
–July 17, 1997–
I don’t travel by air all that often, so I can’t get used to the squeezed-in seats. Every time I get in a plane it seems they’ve shaved another half-inch from the seat width, and the rows are an inch closer together. When the person in front of you leans back nowadays, his or her head [...]
Welfare for Politicians Could Help the Welfare of the Rest of Us
By Donella Meadows
–May 20, 1997–
My dear fellow Americans,
A recent New York Times/CBS poll says that 89 percent of us think our political campaign system should be fundamentally changed. Just eight percent of us think it needs only minor tinkering. (The option “no change, our campaigns work splendidly” was not even offered as a choice.)
We’re not dummies.
According to the poll 68 [...]
Environmental Debates Have Science and Emotion on All Sides
By Donella Meadows
–May 1, 1997–
OK, that’s it.
I’ve heard that “science versus emotion” taunt just once too often.
Nuclear power proponents toss it out like a grenade to silence people who are “irrationally” worried about radioactivity. This is an industry whose wastes will be deadly for thousands of years after the last “scientific” spokesman accuses the last worried citizen of unjustified “emotion.”
Food [...]
Corporations Already Rule the World
By Donella Meadows
–February 8, 1996–
The title of David Korten’s new book — When Corporations Rule the World — does not refer to some theoretical future state. Korten’s point is that corporations already rule much of the world, and that the consequences aren’t good, not even for corporations.
His book is a detailed documentation — names, cases, numbers — of dysfunctional corporate [...]
