Kalle Lasn is Mad As Heck and Isn’t Going To Take It Anymore
by Donella Meadows
— May 11, 2000 —
Maybe you’ve seen Adbusters magazine or the Adbusters website with their take-offs on common ads. “Joe Chemo,” the popular Joe Camel, sits sad, sick, and bald in a hospital bed. A sports utility vehicle surges through the wilderness under the slogan: NATURE — IT’LL GROW BACK. A slumped over vodka bottle proclaims ABSOLUTE IMPOTENCE.
It [...]
Give Me Feedback and I Will Change the World, Or At Least My Own Habits
by Donella Meadows
— May 4, 2000 —
This column is not a Honda ad, though it will start off sounding like one. This is an ad for feedback.
I’ve had a Honda gas-electric hybrid car for less than a month. It has taught me a whole new way of driving, thanks to feedback from its instrument panel.
An indicator flashes a string of [...]
Rhetoric About Taxes, Facts About Taxes
by Donella Meadows
— April 27, 2000 —
I’m not sure how or when our political arena became so infested with dubious “facts.” However it happened, we ordinary citizens don’t have time to separate the truth from the barrage of falsehoods. So I am grateful for public-interest research groups that watch the numbers for us.
One of the best is Citizens for Tax [...]
Dear Folks: April 23, 2000
Hello, Dear Folks!
It’s Easter. It’s the day after Earth Day. It’s solidly cloudy, as it has been for a week, and 40 degrees, and bone-penetrating damp. I spent yesterday out in the garden and got soaked through.
Ah, but it felt good! A carton of plants I had ordered arrived, so I had to get them into the ground, and a [...]
Earth Day Plus Thirty, As Seen By The Earth
by Donella Meadows
— April 20, 2000 —
If, in the thirty Earth Day celebrations we have held since 1970, the human population and economy have become any more respectful of the Earth, the Earth hasn’t noticed.
The planet is not impressed by fancy speeches. Leonardo DiCaprio interviewing Bill Clinton about global warming is not an Earth-shaking event. The Earth has no way [...]
