How Campaign Reform Could Clean up a lot of Hog Manure
By Donella Meadows
–January 20, 2000—-
“Campaign reform” is much too polite a phrase. “Ending corruption” is more like it. I could — and maybe I will –write a column a week from now till next fall’s election counting the ways campaign contributions corrupt our government, destroy our public assets and rob taxpayers.
Today’s example is industrial hog farming.
As recently as 20 years [...]
AOL Time Warner and the Dalai Lama
By Donella Meadows
–January 13, 2000—-
Ten days into the year 2000, as the media were abuzz with the merger of America Online and Time Warner, the Internet wafted to me the Dalai Lama’s millennium address. It’s a strange global info-world that brings those two pieces of information to one’s attention on the same day.
The Dalai Lama remarked that there is nothing [...]
The New Century as Seen From More Serious Places
By Donella Meadows
–January 6, 2000–
I was bewailing the short-term, sound-bite, soul-less way in which the U.S. media greeted the turn not only of a century, but of a millennium. (You know — lists of the top ten athletes of the century, ads for the soft drink of the new millennium.) Then in from the Internet came welcome news of intelligent [...]
A Disappointing Turn of the Millennium
By Donella Meadows
–December 30, 1999–
When I was a kid I looked ahead to the date 2000, so unimaginably far away, with excitement. “Wow, I hope I live to see it! I wonder what it will be like! Imagine being around for the turn of a MILLENNIUM!”
So now it’s here. By the grace of God I’ve lived to see it. What [...]
Dear Folks: December 26, 1999
December 26, 1999
Dear Folks,
“I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills.” That sentence, which opens Isak Dinesen’s Out of Africa, always makes me cry, because of its past tense. Had a farm in Africa. The whole book is a hymn of sorrow for that lost farm.
Even when I still owned Foundation Farm and thought I [...]
