To Save the Environment Start by Saving Landsat
By Donella Meadows
–February 16, 1989–
Over the next decade the world will critically need an eye on itself. We will need to keep track of greenhouse warming, forest damage from acid rain, the extent of deserts and tropical deforestation. We can deal with global environmental problems only if we have accurate information about whether and where those problems exist.
The good news [...]
The People Should Do It, the Government Should Do It
By Donella Meadows
–February 9, 1989–
“I want my government to tell me what to do when it comes to recycling trash, and I want them to make it easy.
“I want my government to appropriate money to solar energy research instead of things like star wars.
“I want my government to tax me heavily if I choose to have more than two children.
“If [...]
A Mixed Message from Bush on Energy
By Donella Meadows
–February 2, 1989–
Environmentalists, waiting hopefully to see whether George Bush is indeed one of them, got a puzzling mixed message this week.
Bush’s Secretary of State James Baker, in a rousing speech to delegates from 40 nations, said that the world cannot wait for solid evidence before acting on the greenhouse problem. The U.S. and the world must focus [...]
Controlling Growth by Controlling Attractiveness
By Donella Meadows
–January 26, 1989–
In Woodstock, Vermont, everyone’s mad about a highway. In other places the issue is a sewer system or a school. The real issue, of course, is growth. According to Jay Forrester’s Attractiveness Principle (Forrester is a professor of systems analysis at MIT) there’s only one way to control growth — control attractiveness.
It’s hard to imagine a [...]
Dear Folks: January 22, 1989
Dear Folks, I like to begin every January issue of the Dana Meadows News Service with a small guide to the people and other creatures of the household, to help new subscribers keep the characters straight. This year I asked Sylvia to make me some little sketches to go with my descriptions, and you can see the result!
I may not have [...]
