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Paying the Third World to Save the Ozone Layer
By Donella Meadows
–May 17, 1990–
Last week in Geneva the United States positioned itself for the fourth time in six months as an international pariah by refusing to go along with a global environmental agreement. The issue this time was a fund to help Third World nations adopt measures to restore the ozone layer. The Bush administration refused to support the [...]
Cancer is a Learning Experience
By Donella Meadows
–May 10, 1990–
Six months ago I was diagnosed with Stage II Grade 2 endometrial cancer. Today I feel great. My doctors say there is no more evidence of malignancy.
It has been a heck of a six months. I went through the tortures modern medicine is so good at administering: two kinds of radiation therapy and surgery. I tried [...]
A McDonald’s in the Hospital?
By Donella Meadows
–May 3, 1990–
There’s a rumor going around that our new $217 million regional hospital will contain a McDonald’s restaurant.
The folks who told me this couldn’t believe it (but passed it on anyhow — that’s the way with rumors). They shouldn’t have believed it, I discovered as I checked the rumor out. The news is, at best, premature. There [...]
So is the Earth Warming or Isn’t it?
By Donella Meadows
–April 26, 1990–
With an aha! gotcha! flourish a skeptical reader sent me a recent news release about global warming. “Scientists who analyzed 10 years of weather satellite data found no evidence that the earth has warmed from the so-called greenhouse effect,” it said. “The northern hemisphere goes up slightly during those 10 years and the southern hemisphere goes [...]
A New Materials System Arises in Fits and Starts
By Donella Meadows
–April 19, 1990–
Contrary to conventional wisdom, Americans are proving not only able but willing to separate their garbage. In fact we’re becoming such ferocious recyclers that old newspapers are piling up by the ton with no place to go.
As the market for used newsprint crashes, some recyclers are getting discouraged, and some purveyors of conventional wisdom are saying, [...]
