Incinerator Blues, Part One: Do You Know Where Your Trash Is Tonight?
By Donella Meadows
–September 3, 1987–
About a month ago I got a mailing from a national environmental group, warning about the very incinerator to which my garbage wends its humble weekly way. It’s a brand-new, waste-to-energy plant in Claremont, New Hampshire, built and operated by Signal Environmental Systems.
“Watch this plant!” the flyer said. “This is the second incinerator in the USA [...]
How Much Abuse Can Mother Earth Take
By Donella Meadows
–November 13, 1986–
Last week a spill from a pesticide plant turned the Rhine into a “dead river” the entire length of Germany.
That’s just one of hundreds of human-generated assaults upon the environment. Acid rain falls on Scandinavia. Oil spills destroy the coral reefs of the Red Sea. Air pollution kills vegetation in the Los Angeles basin. Radioactive waste [...]
