Begging, Whining, and Getting Sensible About Oil
by Donella Meadows
— March 30, 2000 —
What an upset! Oil-burning New Englanders watch their heating bills double. Truck drivers protest higher diesel costs by jamming Washington streets with their rigs. Congress, in its wisdom, offers to combat a sixty cent jump in gasoline price with a four cent tax cut. Our Energy Secretary runs around the Middle East begging for [...]
Watching the Primary from Across the River
By Donella Meadows
–February 3, 2000–
I’ve had the fun of voting in six New Hampshire primaries, but this one I had to sit out. I’ve just moved three miles across the river and become a Vermonter.
It was strange to watch all the foofuraw from across the state boundary. I still bumped into the candidates as they cruised the valley, canoed on [...]
How Campaign Reform Could Clean up a lot of Hog Manure
By Donella Meadows
–January 20, 2000—-
“Campaign reform” is much too polite a phrase. “Ending corruption” is more like it. I could — and maybe I will –write a column a week from now till next fall’s election counting the ways campaign contributions corrupt our government, destroy our public assets and rob taxpayers.
Today’s example is industrial hog farming.
As recently as 20 years [...]
A Question for Al Gore
By Donella Meadows
–October 28, 1999–
If you live in New Hampshire in the months before a presidential primary, you can’t help but get engulfed. Big politicians roll into small towns. TV trucks with satellite dishes squat in the few parking places. Self-absorbed people in suits pace village greens, shouting into cell phones. All this week, as Dartmouth College geared up for [...]
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 [...]
