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Forget Camp David, Forget Survivor, Watch Capitol Hill
by Donella Meadows
— July 20, 2000 —
I don’t get it. Why are the 24-hour news media, always desperate for gripping stories, reporting every hour on the Camp David summit, where, as I write this column, they have no access to what’s really going on? Why don’t some of those eager reporters move over to Capitol Hill to cover the constantly [...]
Le Monde n’est pas une Marchandise. Moi Non Plus. (The World is not For Sale. Me Neither.)
By Hal Hamilton and Donella Meadows
–July 13, 2000–
Jose Bove milks 250 sheep in the Larzac region of France, a rocky, windswept place where you would think no farmer could produce anything. But Bove turns sheep milk into one of the gastronomical treasures of the world, Roquefort cheese. Bove is a leader of the local Roquefort producers association and of the [...]
Things Are Getting Worse at a Slower Rate
by Donella Meadows
— June 29, 2000 —
In the spirit of celebrating every success, but only to the extent the success deserves, I would like to celebrate something that is kind of hard to describe. The rate at which things are getting worse is slowing down. We’re not going downhill as fast as we once were. The fever is high, but [...]
How’s a Green Group to Survive Without Junk Mail?
by Donella Meadows
— June 22, 2000 —
It’s so hard to do right in a world that expects you, rewards you, encourages you to do wrong.
As when the Sierra Club, fighting off a Disney mountain development, discovered that it owned shares in Disney.
As when environmentalists jet to global climate change conferences, emitting greenhouse gases all the way.
As when green groups send [...]
The Good is the Enemy of the Perfect
by Donella Meadows
— June 15, 2000 —
Wow! Did I ever infuriate my liberal friends when I said I would vote for Ralph Nader!
They’ve been hammering me with earnest lectures about how every vote for Nader will help get Bush elected, and how an elected Bush will devastate the environment, enrich the rich, hand the country to the oil companies, appoint [...]
