Gardening Brings Out the Truth
By Donella Meadows
–June 13, 1996–
Something about gardening gets me thinking about politics. Maybe it’s the bending over with the blood running to my head. Maybe making a tiny piece of the world beautiful gets me wishing the whole world could be beautiful. Maybe it’s sunstroke.
Anyway, as I was in front of the house the other day putting in marigolds, I [...]
Keeping Up With the Politicians Via Internet
By Donella Meadows
–June 6, 1996–
There’s what they say in political campaigns and then there’s what they do. How does a busy voter ever sort out the difference?
In a proper democracy we wouldn’t have to. Politicians would not be able to buy the public airwaves to propagandize us. We would learn about their actions from an independent press, just the facts, [...]
Lawless Logging
By Donella Meadows
–April 25, 1996–
If you live in a city, you may never have heard of the “salvage rider” If you live near a national forest, you may be watching in helpless fury as it turns protected stands of ancient trees into slash and erosion.
Where I live, in the widespread community of people who try to keep an eye on [...]
Lying to the Pollsters
By Donella Meadows
–February 15, 1996–
I want to assure you that my Mom brought me up right. Lying doesn’t come easily to me. I had to endure many New Hampshire presidential primaries before I thought of lying to the pollsters.
In the week or two before the primary they call almost every night. You can tell immediately that it’s a poll by [...]
Corporations Already Rule the World
By Donella Meadows
–February 8, 1996–
The title of David Korten’s new book — When Corporations Rule the World — does not refer to some theoretical future state. Korten’s point is that corporations already rule much of the world, and that the consequences aren’t good, not even for corporations.
His book is a detailed documentation — names, cases, numbers — of dysfunctional corporate [...]
