Trying to Measure Which Nations Are Sustainable
by Donella Meadows
— February 17, 2000 —
Every year at the peak of the Alpine ski season the world’s movers and shakers, the heads of the largest corporations and wealthiest governments, head for the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. This year an event occurred there that was largely unreported but possibly historic. The attendees were presented with a ranking of [...]
Globalization Hits Hungary with a Wave of Cyanide
by Donella Meadows
— February 10, 2000 —
Here’s a story of the global economy at its worst and maybe also at its best.
In early February a cry of alarm came over email from my friend Zoltan Lontay in Hungary. The Hungarian news had just announced an enormous fish kill in the Szamos river on that country’s eastern border. A wave of [...]
Watching the Primary from Across the River
By Donella Meadows
–February 3, 2000–
I’ve had the fun of voting in six New Hampshire primaries, but this one I had to sit out. I’ve just moved three miles across the river and become a Vermonter.
It was strange to watch all the foofuraw from across the state boundary. I still bumped into the candidates as they cruised the valley, canoed on [...]
Y No Y2K Disaster?
By Donella Meadows
–January 27, 2000—-
Civilization did not collapse into computational confusion on New Year’s Eve. The worst Y2K glitch I experienced was finding all my email files suddenly dated 1944, and that was easily fixed.
What happened? Or rather, what didn’t happen?
There is a self-congratulatory answer to that question: we were clever and fast and rich enough to stave off disaster. [...]
Dear Folks: January 22, 2000
Dear Folks,
They say it might get up to +5 degrees today. It was -20 last night and will be again tonight. We’ve gone from one of the warmest Decembers ever to a January that is about to break the all-time record for the number of successive days in which the temperature drops below zero.
There is a lot of wind to [...]
