Addictive Welfare–Can People Be Fixed?
By Donella Meadows
–November 10, 1994–
Talk radio while driving west on Oklahoma 51 just before the election. On comes the Republican candidate for governor. Some people are just bad and can’t be fixed. There’s a line, and when someone crosses it, there’s no room for mercy. Put ’em in jail. Execute ’em.
Interview with the author of a book about America’s troubles: [...]
Haiti Need Not Remain the Basket Case of the Western Hemisphere
By Donella Meadows
–July 14, 1994–
Poor Haiti. Intractable Haiti. Haiti, oppressed by Papa Doc, Baby Doc, and now a pack of even more rapacious generals. Haiti, the problem that keeps washing up on our shore.
I am hearing some of the most peaceable folks I know, folks who know and love the Haitian land and people, say with great reluctance that it’s [...]
Is Development the Best Contraceptive–Or Are Contraceptives?
By Donella Meadows
–May 26, 1994–
Journal articles full of statistics are not usually causes of concern at the State Department, but a recent one about family planning was controversial enough to make one Clinton appointee ask another to remove his name from it. That was a shame, because both protagonists — Timothy Wirth, Undersecretary of State for Global Affairs, and Lawrence [...]
Why It’s a Conference on Environment and Development
By Donella Meadows
–May 28, 1992–
Reporters are calling it the “Rio Conference” or the “Earth Summit.” Properly it is the “United Nations Conference on Environment and Development,” abbreviated UNCED, pronounced “unsaid.” What is mostly unsaid, at least in the Northern press, is the last word in that title — development.
Environment and development were set up as equal issues for UNCED for [...]
Population, Poverty, And Planet Earth
Population is the issue no one wants to touch, yet the answer to the problem is as close as our own hearts
By Donella H. Meadows
–Spring 1992–
Week after week, Donella H. (Dana) Meadows has been brightening op-ed pages around the country with her penetrating, inspiring, yet folksy newspaper column, “The Global Citizen.” (A collection of her columns under the same title [...]
