Building a Green Economy
By Paul Krugman
The following article was originally published in the New York Times Magazine on April 7, 2010.
If you listen to climate scientists — and despite the relentless campaign to discredit their work, you should — it is long past time to do something about emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. If we continue with business as usual, they [...]
Forget Camp David, Forget Survivor, Watch Capitol Hill
by Donella Meadows
— July 20, 2000 —
I don’t get it. Why are the 24-hour news media, always desperate for gripping stories, reporting every hour on the Camp David summit, where, as I write this column, they have no access to what’s really going on? Why don’t some of those eager reporters move over to Capitol Hill to cover the constantly [...]
Congress is Playing the Ugly Rider Game Again
by Donella Meadows
— July 22, 1999 —
“ACTION ALERT. This week the Senate is expected to vote on an Interior Appropriations bill that has a dirty baker’s dozen of anti-environmental riders. Now is the time to step up our opposition to these undemocratic attacks on the environment.”
I get so darn sick of these emails.
I get sick of the whole cynical rider [...]
Weeping for the Shrimp and the Zambians and the Macaques
by Donella Meadows
— January 7, 1999 —
By nature I’m an optimist; to me all glasses are half-full. Though I spend my days with news about the global environment — news that is rarely uplifting — I can usually spot a light at the end of the tunnel, a silver lining, a way out of trouble.
But every now and then I [...]
Michael Moore’s Revolution — Everybody Vote
By Donella Meadows
–October 22, 1998–
Michael Moore’s election message is bouncing all over the Internet. “OK, I’ve had it,” says Moore, the maker of the film “Roger and Me” and the show “TV Nation.” “I propose a legal act of civil disobedience.”
Moore says he is not a Democrat and did not vote for Bill Clinton in ‘96. But he is infuriated [...]
