Ethnic Jokes People Tell About Themselves
By Donella Meadows
–September 3, 1987–
There are jokes some folks tell to demean other folks, such as Polish jokes told by Americans. They tell you more about the mean-spiritness of the teller than they do about the national characteristics of the Poles.
Then there are jokes people tell on themselves, about their own kind of people. Those jokes are strangely revealing. They [...]
You Too Can Help Bring Back Quetzalcoatl
By Donella Meadows
–August 26, 1987–
Badly typed, single-spaced, a xerox of a xerox of a xerox. More flaky New Age stuff. It’s amazing how much of it floats into my life.
“On August 16, 1987, a galactic beam surrounding Earth will phase from acceleration to synchronization. There will be a break in the harmonic resonance of the electromagnetic field of Earth. Many [...]
The Thinning of Turnips and the Right to Life
By Donella Meadows
–August 20, 1987–
“Twenty-fifth of July, plant turnips, wet or dry,” the old-time gardeners say. So on that day I always plant the fall turnip crop. It’s a big planting. I can’t get anybody in the house to eat turnips, but I store them in the root cellar and feed them to the sheep all winter long.
The twenty-fifth of [...]
Dear Folks: August 16, 1987
The First Day of the Harmonic Convergence
Dear Folks,
Oh, it is the most spectacular weather, the best weather of the year, the cool Canadian high of August, with a little hint of fall. The light is just about gone from the sky this evening, and out my window Mount Ascutney looks almost close enough to touch. The sky is impeccably clear. [...]
A Historic International Agreement on Ozone
By Donella Meadows
–August 8, 1987–
There’s an old joke that goes like this: if you think the prospect of the end of the world is likely to cause policy changes in Washington, London, Paris, Bonn, or Moscow, you have obviously never been to any of those places.
In fact there is an environmental threat right now that could be of “end of [...]
