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A Thousand Miles Per Gallon
By Donella Meadows
–September 29, 1994–
A year ago, with considerable fanfare, President Clinton entered into an agreement with the Big Three U.S. automakers to develop within ten years cars that can double or triple the 30 miles per gallon that the average new American car gets now. In fact many auto companies have had for years demonstration models that get 60-100 [...]
What Use Is It to Be A Superpower?
By Donella Meadows
–September 22, 1994–
Were you as dismayed as I was by the public debate about whether, and under what conditions, this nation should invade Haiti? The discussion revealed us in all our nakedness, the world’s one remaining superpower, with no idea, or at least no agreement, about what to use that power for.
Some people said that whatever we do, [...]
Three Population Goals, One Achieved, One Achievable, One Not Discussible
By Donella Meadows
–September 15, 1994–
The population conference just ended in Cairo was not, despite all appearances, about the Pope. At stake were three goals vastly more important than the Holy See’s approval of a world population agreement. The first was to establish that population is a women’s issue. The second was to rally support to help women deal with it. [...]
Who Has a Population Problem?
By Donella Meadows
–September 8, 1994–
There’s a general belief in this country that the global population problem exists Over There somewhere, or maybe Down South of our border. But certainly not here.
If we could see ourselves as the other 95.5 percent of the world sees us, we’d know that nothing could be farther from the truth.
U.S. family size is going up, [...]
Numbers, Myths, Misconceptions About World Population
By Donella Meadows
–September 1, 1994–
Every day, as the International Conference on Population and Development meets in Cairo, the headlines could read, “World Population Grows by 250,000.”
That could be the headline every day of every week, of course. Human population growth is the biggest happening in our world. But it works like a glacier, inexorable, overwhelming, boring. It’s every day’s news, [...]
