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Dumb Things We Could Stop Doing
By Donella Meadows
–February 6, 1997–
I have a friend who keeps a list titled: “Dumb Things We Could Stop Doing.” I add to that list just about every time I hear the news.
Take the CIA, for instance. It might have made some sense once to have a CIA, but now it seems worse than purposeless. CIA higher-ups seem to be constantly [...]
Feeling Our Feelings Might Not Be a Trivial Exercise
By Donella Meadows
–January 30, 1997–
Anyone who travels the world is bound to experience not only wonders but also crowds, poverty, pollution, ugliness and cruelty. Anyone who looks at the statistics can see population, factories and toxic wastes zooming up, while forests, soils, groundwaters and species plummet. I don’t think it’s possible to experience our planet, directly or indirectly, without a [...]
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 [...]
