Beware of Right-Leaning Control of the Left-Leaning Media
By Donella Meadows
–April 6, 1995–
“The appropriation is gone,” said Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich about the Corporation for Public Broadcasting: “The power of the Speaker is the power of recognition, and I will not recognize any proposal that will appropriate money for the CPB.”
Why not? How could anyone begrudge the piddling public support (19 cents of every $1000 we [...]
Advance News from the Greenhouse
By Donella Meadows
–February 16, 1995–
“Is the Earth Really Getting Warmer?” asked a recent Reader’s Digest article and concluded no, it is not. A few weeks later came a New York Times headline: “Global Warming Resumed in 1994.”
“Give us a break!” I can hear people groaning. “Would the experts please go fight this out over in a corner and stop bothering [...]
What Keeps You Going?
By Donella Meadows
–January 26, 1995–
“Last month I got upset enough to ski 2.5 miles out of this remote cabin to send a letter to my Congressional delegates,” writes a reader in Palmer, Alaska. “But my letters here and there (particularly compared to the fax armies of the organized special interests) seem woefully inadequate. It helps to keep doing good work, [...]
You Are What You Put Through Your Mind
By Donella Meadows
–August 25, 1994–
Scores on the Scholastic Achievement Tests — the SATs that determine which of our high-school seniors go to college — have been going down so steadily that the College Board has shifted the scale. Now you can get a higher score with fewer right answers.
Only one out of five U.S. students can write a logical, well-developed [...]
Who Will Tell the People
By Donella Meadows
–June 3, 1993–
Whatever you do, don’t read the book Who Will Tell the People by William Greider. Especially not now, while the powers-that-be are putting up such spectacular resistance to balancing the budget, helping the economy, or reducing their own privileges. You’ll get too mad.
Innocent citizens like me can watch the short-sightedness and greed of our leaders year [...]
