Dear Folks: September 20, 1992
September 20, 1992
Dear Folks,
Happy equinox!
It’s Sunday afternoon, a brilliant day, so heartbreakingly crisp that I think I’d better cover the tomatoes tonight. The garden, still unfolding slowly, could get cut down by frost any one of these clear nights.
That would be cruel; there’s so much stuff out there. The tomatoes didn’t start coming till the beginning of September. The fourth [...]
The Draft Issue and the Character Issue
By Donella Meadows
–September 17, 1992–
Which of the following experiences most qualifies a person to be a national leader?
(a). Fought honorably in World War II.
(b). Got his influential daddy to find him a place in the national guard, so he could stay out of the Vietnam War.
(c). Didn’t have an influential daddy, but pulled every string to stay in graduate school [...]
EC Come, EC Go: How Denmark Slowed the Rush Toward European Union
By Donella Meadows
–September 10, 1992–
In June the 5 million people of Denmark put the brakes on the rushing locomotive that was carrying 340 million people into a European political union. According to the Treaty of Rome, if any of the participating 12 nations fail to enter, the unification process stops. Therefore, legally, the European Union is now dead. The upcoming [...]
The Environment President Whittles Away the National Parks
By Donella Meadows
–September 3, 1992–
One of the many performance records George Bush would rather we didn’t focus on between now and the coming election is the degradation under his stewardship of our national lands.
The operating principles of the Bush and Reagan administrations are being revealed by an increasing number of National Park Service and Forest Service employees who have been [...]
Free Trade Benefits Traders, Not Nations
By Donella Meadows
–August 27, 1992–
Wow! The world’s largest trading area, populated by 360 million people! A free market from the Yukon to the Yucatan! The latest dramatic chapter, says President Bush, in the new world Christopher Columbus discovered 500 years ago!
It’s enough to give you shivers down your back.
But have you ever stopped to wonder what, exactly, is to be [...]
