Dear Folks: April 23, 1994
Dear Folks,
What a spectacular time of returnings and openings and loosenings and beginnings is the month between the end of March and the end of April!
When I last wrote you the land was white and frozen. I was celebrating the first muddy spots and the return of the robins. Now the fields are showing green. At the protected front of [...]
Preparing for the Birth Summit
By Donella Meadows
–April 21, 1994–
Two years ago the official name of the big conference was UNCED — the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development. Everyone called it the Earth Summit. This year the official name of the big conference, to be held in Cairo in September, is ICPD — International Conference on Population and Development. They’re calling it the [...]
After Rio: The Governments’ and the Citizens’ Energy Plans
By Donella Meadows
–April 14, 1994–
The Earth Summit in Rio, the largest global meeting ever held, is nearly two years behind us but still very much alive. Heads of state from nearly every government went home from Rio bearing treaties to implement, including a climate convention, a biodiversity agreement, and a sweeping environmental mandate called Agenda 21. There is a new [...]
Distractions from the Real World
By Donella Meadows
–April 7, 1994–
Fifty one percent of Americans between the ages of 18 and 49 know that Superman was born on the planet Krypton. Thirty eight percent do not know what the term “Holocaust” refers to. Another 22 percent know what it means, but think it possible that the Holocaust never happened. (This survey was taken before the release [...]
The Most Undiscussable Topic in the World
By Donella Meadows
–March 31, 1994–
As the nations gear up for a World Population Conference to be held in Cairo next September, a Cornell professor has given them something to talk about. He says the number of human beings, currently 5.6 billion and rising, really should be somewhere around 2 billion.
The professor, David Pimentel, is not a crackpot, and he did [...]
