Dear Folks: March 20, 1993
Dear Folks,
Happy equinox!
Foundation Farm is buried under four feet of snow, two that were already on the ground, and two more that fell during the “great blizzard” last weekend. More snow is due today. It’s been below zero just about every night for the past two weeks. Some people are getting cabin fever, but this is the kind of winter [...]
Ross Perot, Jesse Jackson, and the Politics of Protest
By Donella Meadows
–July 24, 1992–
Though I hadn’t made up my mind to vote for Ross Perot, I was sorry to see him leave the campaign. I like him, for the same reasons that I like Jesse Jackson.
They are both delightfully unprofessional. They won’t submit to the grooming and polishing of party machines. They don’t need polls to know what to [...]
Some Practical Aid for the (Former) Soviet Union
By Donella Meadows
–October 3, 1991–
The United States is planning to respond to Mikhail Gorbachev’s repeated appeals for economic aid by sending in teams of experts in accounting, marketing and finance.
What? No LAWYERS?
I assume that our leaders are sincere in this offer — that it’s not part of a secret plot to bring the Soviet Union down the last step, from [...]
Fighting for Democracy Abroad and at Home
By Donella Meadows
–September 19, 1991–
Last week at a conference in Hungary a Lithuanian showed pictures of the people of Vilnius bringing their vehicles to block their TV transmitter from Russian tanks. He showed thousands of candles lit in protest at national shrines. He translated the hand-lettered signs: “In the forest the vicious animals are wolves. In the jungle they’re tigers. [...]
Energy Ideas from Inside and Outside the Beltway
By Donella Meadows
–May 30, 1991–
Dozens of energy bills are before Congress just now, most of them astonishingly dumb. In spite of vivid demonstrations from the Persian Gulf and from the environment that we need to re-think our energy policy, Congress and the President are still pleasing vested interests and playing short-term politics, rather than designing a sustainable energy future.
George Bush, [...]
