Poverty Causes Population Growth Causes Poverty
By Donella Meadows
–June 19, 1986–
Everywhere in the world, in every kind of culture, the poorest people have the most children.
Does having many children make people poor? Or does being poor make people have many children?
That is a hot question in the continuous struggle over how to spend foreign aid money. Those who think population growth causes poverty advocate programs in [...]
Hands Across White River Junction
By Donella Meadows
–May 29, 1986–
The official Hands Across America line passed 200 miles south of Vermont, but people up here wanted to express their concern for the homeless and the hungry too. Somehow they found each other and formed their own lines—2000 people in Burlington, 6000 in Barre-Montpelier, 250 in Strafford—and about 50 in White River Junction.
Katy Chaffee called me [...]
