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By Donella Meadows
–January 4, 2001 —
The Democrats are always the ones who fight among themselves; it’s a truism of American politics. Conservatives, no matter how they may range across the spectrum of conservatism, understand both power and discipline better than free-thinking liberals. There’s something about liberalism that spurns the very idea of a party line.
Thus left-leaning movements have torn themselves apart [...]
By Donella Meadows
–January 4, 2001–
Sending an opinion column into the world is a bit like tickling a sleeping bear. Sometimes you get back low rumbles. Every now and then you stir up a roar.
Who would have guessed that fluorine would touch such a nerve? Last year I wrote about the wisdom (which I was beginning to doubt) of fluoridating drinking [...]
by Donella Meadows
— December 28, 2000 —
What do you do, when you want to move fast but the way ahead is dark, possibly dangerous and almost entirely unknown? Accelerate? Proceed with moderation? Slow way down? Stop?
That question underlies most environmental regulations. We are not sure what pesticides are doing to soils, waters, other creatures, or ourselves. We have only a [...]
by Donella Meadows
— December 21, 2000 —
The drama of the presidential election, they say, has awakened the interest of the public, and especially of young people, in the democratic process.
So welcome, young people, to the entertainment that never ends. Once the question “who won?” is settled, other questions begin. What are the people who won up to? For whose benefit? [...]
by Donella Meadows
— December 14, 2000 —
However environmentally permissive a Republican-controlled United States may be, other parts of the world are pioneering attitudes, technologies, and laws that could carry us safely through the 21st Century. As this week’s happy example, I offer the new global agreement on POPs, plus Sweden’s even better policy on the same topic.
POPs is the hot [...]
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The mission of the Donella Meadows Project is to preserve Donella (Dana) H. Meadows’s legacy as an inspiring leader, scholar, writer, and teacher; to manage the intellectual property rights related to Dana’s published work; to provide and maintain a comprehensive and easily accessible archive of her work online, including articles, columns, and letters; to develop new resources and programs that apply her ideas to current issues and make them available to an ever-larger network of students, practitioners, and leaders in social change. Read More
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