Advance News from the Greenhouse
By Donella Meadows
–February 16, 1995–
“Is the Earth Really Getting Warmer?” asked a recent Reader’s Digest article and concluded no, it is not. A few weeks later came a New York Times headline: “Global Warming Resumed in 1994.”
“Give us a break!” I can hear people groaning. “Would the experts please go fight this out over in a corner and stop bothering [...]
Clearing Away the Budgetary Smoke and Mirrors
By Donella Meadows
–February 9, 1995–
Every day the U.S. government borrows over $700 million, obligating every man, woman, and child of us to add another $3 to our individual share of the national debt. Every day. The interest we pay on that debt amounts this year to an average of $848 apiece. Americans of every political persuasion are upset by this [...]
The Government Budget–So How Would You Balance It?
By Donella Meadows
–February 2, 1995–
OK, wise guys.
You want lower taxes. You want the government budget to balance. You think Congress or the White House or both are made up of a bunch of dingalings.
Here’s your chance to straighten them out. Let’s not be like those craven folks in Washington who are putting off budget balancing by going for a Constitutional [...]
What Keeps You Going?
By Donella Meadows
–January 26, 1995–
“Last month I got upset enough to ski 2.5 miles out of this remote cabin to send a letter to my Congressional delegates,” writes a reader in Palmer, Alaska. “But my letters here and there (particularly compared to the fax armies of the organized special interests) seem woefully inadequate. It helps to keep doing good work, [...]
Dear Folks: January 20, 1995
Hi, dear folks!
I’m roughly over Cleveland on a TWA jet headed for St. Louis (3 hours late). On my way to Monsanto, about which more later. Late because Boston is foggy. Foggy because the greenhouse effect or El Nino or whatever has brought the warmest, longest January thaw I’ve ever seen. Last Sunday and Monday it was 60 degrees at [...]
