Dear Folks: September 7, 1990
Dear Folks, It’s Friday morning, two days after my return from Hungary. On Sunday I leave again for a week in Arizona. I’m already so full of news that I’d better start this letter now, before the discoveries from the next trip cram themselves into my already overloaded brain and heart.
I’ll try to make this more full than my usual description [...]
East Europe’s Agriculture in Ferment
By Donella Meadows
–September 6, 1990–
Seven hundred people are crowded into the central hall of the Budapest University of Economics (called until a few months ago the Karl Marx University of Economics). Just outside flows the Danube, brown and slightly toxic. The hall throbs with human energy, though it’s hard for anyone to take a breath. The air is hot, heavy, [...]
Saddam Hussein has Done us a Favor
By Donella Meadows
–August 30, 1990–
The Arabs did us a favor. That’s what some people said after the oil shocks of the 1970s had settled a bit. By jacking up the price of oil, OPEC forced us to the creativity that resulted, over the period from 1975 to 1985, in producing a dollar’s worth of goods and services with 30 percent [...]
Dear Folks: August 24, 1990
Dear Folks, Sylvia and Heather have written a new story. They have a whole series, repeated with further embellishments at every bedtime. One is about Caesar and Cleopatra and their goslings. Another is about Faith the sheep who thought she was a person. The latest is titled “EEEEEEEEEUUWWWW Zucchini!” That was an actual comment, made by one of Heather’s small friends [...]
On Bathtubs, Carbon Dioxide, and Disrespect
By Donella Meadows
–August 23, 1990–
I have been getting impolite letters from California about bathtubs. You wouldn’t think that would be a subject to cause wrath in readers, but there seems to be something touchy about Californians when it comes to bathtubs.
The whole affair started a few weeks ago when I attempted to educate John Sununu about the greenhouse effect. I [...]
