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: [...]
A New Society for a New Economics
By Donella Meadows
–November 3, 1994–
When economist Herman Daly convened the first meeting of the International Society for Ecological Economics in Washington in 1990, he expected 60 or so people to show up, few of them economists. Traditional economists thought of ecological economics, insofar as they thought of it at all, as distinctly daffy.
To Daly’s surprise, that first ISEE conference drew [...]
Dear Folks: October 30, 1994
Dear Folks,
It’s wonderful to come back to the farm from a long time on the road. The quiet, instead of the pounding noise (have you noticed how LOUD the world is getting?). Oakleaf lettuce picked fresh from the garden instead of iceberg lettuce days old. Air that smells of pine trees, not diesel fumes. Good physical work to do instead [...]
GATT Concentrates Too Much Power in the Wrong Hands
By Donella Meadows
–October 27, 1994–
There’s one huge, discussible reason why GATT (the world trade agreement that will come before Congress next month) should not be passed. There’s an even huger, undiscussible reason.
The discussible reason is that the new GATT will push down wages and environmental standards worldwide and destroy the ability of communities, states, and nations to make their own [...]
Envisioning a Sustainable World Video
Donella Meadows “Down to Earth” speech delivered in 1994 at a Sustainability Conference in Costa Rica
Donella Meadows “Down to Earth” Speech from Donella Meadows Institute on Vimeo.
