Dear Folks: December 20, 1987
Dear Folks,
Last week we passed from November to Winter and there’s a sense of relief in the air. November (which can go on into December) is gray and stormy and the ground is bare. In November you know winter is coming and you scurry around preparing for it, getting the last of the wood in, leaving fence gates open so [...]
What Would the World Be if There Were No Hunger?
By Donella Meadows
–December 17, 1987–
About one out of every eight persons on earth is chronically hungry. The daily death toll from hunger is around 35,000 people, equivalent to 100 fully-loaded jumbo jets crashing EVERY DAY. Most of the victims are children.
Suppose we put a stop to that devastation. What would happen? I don’t mean what process would we go through [...]
Welcome to the Evacuation Hearings
By Donella Meadows
–December 10, 1987–
A lot of things about nuclear power make me mad, but nothing makes me madder than the way its bureaucrats make ordinary citizens feel small.
Suppose you live in Seabrook, New Hampshire, and you decide to go to the hearings on the evacuation plan for the just-finished Seabrook nuclear plant. It’s a matter you might have an [...]
A State-of-the-Art Evacuation Plan
By Donella Meadows
–December 3, 1987–
Hearings on one of the most elaborate, comprehensive, and expensive evacuation plans ever made for a nuclear power plant — the Seabrook plant — are just being completed by the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board in Concord N.H..
Dozens of experts have been consulted. They have taken aerial photos of Hampton Beach and counted the tens of [...]
A Crack in the Mindset of Nuclear Madness
By Donella Meadows
–November 26, 1987–
You could welcome the Reagan-Gorbachev summit as a historic breakthrough. The Intermediate Nuclear Force agreement, the first ever to reduce the nuclear arsenal, may mark a permanent reversal of the arms race, the beginning of the end of nuclear weapons.
Or you could say that the whole business is just a show, a meaningless reduction of a [...]
