Ebola–Not Highly Contagious, But a Grim Warning
By Donella Meadows
–May 25, 1995–
Overexcited reporters are calling the Ebola virus, which is killing people in the cities and villages of Zaire, “highly contagious.” It is not. Ebola is deadly if you catch it, but it is nowhere near as infectious as the common cold — thank heaven.
Richard Preston’s timely book The Hot Zone documents previous Ebola epidemics, including one [...]
Tools for the Transition to Sustainability
Chapter 8 of Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update (Chelsea Green Publishing, 2004)
By Donella Meadows, Jorgen Randers, and Dennis Meadows
We must be careful not to succumb to despair, for there is still the odd glimmer of hope.
-Edouard Saouma, 1993
Can we move nations and people in the direction of sustainability? Such a move would be a modification of society comparable in scale [...]
Beyond The Limits To Growth
By Donella Meadows, Dennis Meadows, and Jørgen Randers
–Summer 1992–
“Grow or die,” goes the old economic maxim. But in 1972 a team of systems scientists and computer modelers challenged conventional wisdom with a ground-breaking study that warned that there were limits – especially environmental limits – to how “big” human civilization and its appetite for resources could get. Beyond a certain [...]
Talk of the Nation
May 8, 1992
Prior to the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio, Brazil in 1992, Donella Meadows was invited to speak on the NPR radio show Talk of the Nation. In the following recordings, she and radio host Ira Flatow discuss her work on the limits to growth and what those limits imply for society going forward. Dennis Avery, [...]
Donella Meadows Interview with Terry Gross
Twenty years after she published the groundbreaking study Limits to Growth, Donella Meadows spoke with Terry Gross about her work and the state of sustainability. The interview below was part of the NPR radio show Fresh Air on Earth Day, April 22, 1992.
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