Saving the Planet Starts with Doing Your Homework
By Donella Meadows
–April 29, 1993–
Kids who want to do something to help the environment get a lot of advice from the media, much of it wrong.
For example, in a Wall Street Journal column Jonathan Adler of the Competitive Enterprise Institute rightfully complains about a Florida TV program that warns children against ozone-destroying chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) in spray cans and in those [...]
Town Meetings of the Airwaves
By Donella Meadows
–February 11, 1993—-
I’m a talk-radio junky. I’d rather listen to real folks stumbling to express their own thoughts than to polished puppets reading what someone else has written. I tune into Larry, Rush, and the folks who call in to them, to keep myself awake, chuckling, thinking, and every now and then yelling in outrage.
One item of talk [...]
Enclosure in an Eco-Boomerang Produces a New Way of Seeing
By Donella Meadows
–September 24, 1992–
The first media reports were glowing. There was Biosphere 2, a huge greenhouse in the Arizona desert, containing a miniature ocean, a rainforest, a savanna, a desert, a farm, and eight people who will live there, sealed in, for two years. A gee-whiz, hi-tech, Green experiment. All air, water, and food cycling and recycling through natural [...]
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 [...]
Let’s Have Some Hugs for John Sununu
By Donella Meadows
–August 22, 1991–
Much as I favor recycling and writing to Congress, deep down I know that’s not enough to end our environmental problems. Even if we all buy efficient light bulbs and have no more than two children, still I suspect we will be dealing only with the surface causes of our cultural tendency to devastate nature for [...]
