Dear Folks: May 16, 1992
Dear Folks, I’ll make this a traveling letter this month, adding to it on planes and in airports, thanks to my Mac Powerbook, which now goes just about everywhere I go.
It’s a gorgeous May afternoon, the kind that makes you think you never, ever want to leave the Upper Valley of the Connecticut River. While thinking that, however, I’m sitting in [...]
Should Real Environmentalists Eat Beef?
By Donella Meadows
–May 14, 1992–
I became a vegetarian in the 1970s in India, because the people around me lived that way. I stayed a vegetarian when I came home, because young idealists back then were inspired by Frances Moore Lappe’s book Diet for a Small Planet. She convinced us that meat-eating was equivalent to taking grain out of the mouths [...]
Talk of the Nation
May 8, 1992
Prior to the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio, Brazil in 1992, Donella Meadows was invited to speak on the NPR radio show Talk of the Nation. In the following recordings, she and radio host Ira Flatow discuss her work on the limits to growth and what those limits imply for society going forward. Dennis Avery, [...]
Who Cares Whether George Goes to Rio?
By Donella Meadows
–May 7, 1992–
Will George Bush go to the Earth Summit next month in Rio de Janeiro? U.S. politics and media, operating together in their perverse way, have made that the Environmental Question of the Day.
It is a confused and meaningless question. It muddles symbols with substance. It focuses on short-term national concerns and bypasses an exciting long-term global [...]
Population, Poverty, And Planet Earth
Population is the issue no one wants to touch, yet the answer to the problem is as close as our own hearts
By Donella H. Meadows
–Spring 1992–
Week after week, Donella H. (Dana) Meadows has been brightening op-ed pages around the country with her penetrating, inspiring, yet folksy newspaper column, “The Global Citizen.” (A collection of her columns under the same title [...]
