Dear Folks: January 26, 1997
Dear Folks, Well, never a dull moment! Some exciting moments we might wish had never happened.
Stephen and Kerry were out training the horses last Friday — it was a cold, slippery day gearing up for a messy sleetstorm. The horses are young, just learning to pull. For some time now Stephen and Kerry have been hitching them up and dragging around [...]
The Cultural Creatives Are Coming
By Donella Meadows
–January 23, 1997–
I don’t know whether to cheer or cringe at the news that the way of life my friends and I have been quietly crafting for decades, always assuming we were far off the mainstream, suddenly has a name and constitutes a trend.
“Cultural creatives” they call us, or worse, “trans-modernists.” According to anthropologist Paul Ray, who seems [...]
Beware of Social Security Fixes
By Donella Meadows
–January 16, 1997–
This country will be out of oil in 30 years. By 2030 we will pump dry much of the groundwater of the Southwest. We don’t hear a peep from our leaders about these problems. But they’re in a panic over the possibility that 30 years from now Social Security will go broke.
When the swollen baby-boom generation [...]
Kinder and Gentler to the Environment?
By Donella Meadows
–January 9, 1997–
Retaining ethically challenged Newt Gingrich as Speaker of the House makes little difference to the environment. Much more important were the congressional committee chairmanships handed out last month. Despite Republican assurances to the contrary, those appointments indicate an ongoing disdain for the natural resources of our nation and the people who care about them.
American voters of [...]
Hands Around the Capitol
By Donella Meadows
–January 2, 1997–
The Democrats took campaign money from an Indonesian trader and the Republicans from an Australian publisher. Tobacco companies made the biggest contributions to both parties. The 1996 election cost more than twice as much as the one in 1992 and treated us to the most misleading campaign ads yet.
We are finally getting it. The politicians don’t [...]
