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Living Green Isn’t A Sacrifice, It’s An Adventure
by Donella Meadows
— April 19, 1999 —
I’m one of those tedious people who try to “live green.”
I’m no beginner. I’ve been at it 30 years, since I lived in the toxic air of northeast New Jersey, watched suburbs munch up farmland, traveled to India where eroded soil blew against my skin and hunger looked me in the face.
When I see [...]
The Dow Passes Ten Thousand – Hooray?
by Donella Meadows
— April 15, 1999 —
Wow! The Dow-Jones average is over ten thousand! And still, as of this writing, rising. Judging from the media celebration, here is proof positive that America is thriving.
But who or what is actually thriving?
There are two ways to answer that question. One is to travel around America — all of it, the inner cities [...]
Social Security Is No Problem, Unless We Make It One
by Donella Meadows
— April 7, 1999 —
Overshadowed by the agony of Kosovo, outshouted by the Dow crossing ten thousand, a surprising news item appeared on page 6 or 15 or so of most American newspapers last week. Social Security has received a stay of execution. Instead of going into the red in 2032, it may survive till 2040 or 2050. [...]
Why Kosovo is a Battleground Again
by Donella Meadows
— April 1, 1999 —
Surprised citizens are flooding Congress with calls asking how this Kosovo mess came about and why we’re involved in it.
When I heard that, my first thought was, “Where has everyone been?” This storm cloud has been darkening the horizon for weeks, as genocide broke out in Kosovo and negotiations dragged to a predictable impasse [...]
Genetic Engineering Is Not Just More of the Same
by Donella Meadows
— March 25, 1999 —
Genetic engineering is nothing new. People have been messing with genes since the first farmers selected the biggest wild grass seeds and began to breed what we now call grain.
So say many widely respected scientists. It’s no big deal, they say, to snip out code from a flounder and paste it into a tomato. [...]
