Dear Folks: February 21, 1993
Dear Folks,
I’m even more than usually happy to be in my study this Sunday afternoon, with the Mozart oboe concerto playing in the background, and with another snowstorm beginning to gather outside. I’m simply delighted to be starting this letter to you about 30 hours later than I had intended to, and with no pain.
That’s because I spent last night [...]
How to Beat the Coming Gas Price Hike
By Donella Meadows
–February 18, 1993—-
There is much talk of sacrifice these days, and much media drama about whether the American people will actually accept such a terrible hardship as an energy tax. The fuss is exaggerated. The energy tax is predictable, sensible, and long overdue. The people asked for it. And it is not a sacrifice.
In the last election the [...]
Town Meetings of the Airwaves
By Donella Meadows
–February 11, 1993—-
I’m a talk-radio junky. I’d rather listen to real folks stumbling to express their own thoughts than to polished puppets reading what someone else has written. I tune into Larry, Rush, and the folks who call in to them, to keep myself awake, chuckling, thinking, and every now and then yelling in outrage.
One item of talk [...]
A President for the Bottom of the Long Wave
By Donella Meadows
–February 4, 1993–
According to long wave theory, Bill Clinton has arrived too early to ride upward on an expanding economy with the politics of easy liberalism. Clinton’s presidency will span the bottom of an economic trough, which used to be called a “depression” and is now called a “structural adjustment.” It will be a time of uncertainty and [...]
The Health Care System Is Sick
By Donella Meadows
–January 28, 1993—-
The annual letter from my health insurance company came on the same day I was reading in Future Survey about the U.S. health care system.
If you are one of those Americans still privileged to pay through the nose for health insurance, you get annual letters too. For four years in a row mine has announced a [...]
