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You Can’t Ban Chlorine, But You Can Stop Sloshing It Around
By Donella Meadows
–May 12, 1994–
“Now the enviros want to ban chlorine!” say the outraged anti-enviros. The outrage would be appropriate if the charge were true. Chlorine is a chemical element, a component of the planet. You might as well ban gravity, or granite, or the salt in the sea. In fact salt, sodium chloride, is made of chlorine. Anyone who [...]
Health Care–Let’s Bring In Some New Designers
By Donella Meadows
–May 5, 1994–
While our elected representatives tangle themselves in the health care debate, I go on paying $182 a month for $1500-deductible health insurance.
While my insurance company hires more lobbyists, it doesn’t return my phone calls.
While the Congress tries to devise a plan that will make the Republicans look bad and the Democrats good, or vice versa, the [...]
Hillary Jokes Are Not So Funny
By Donella Meadows
–April 28, 1994–
In the College Supplies store in Hanover, NH, you can buy a card that says on the front, “What’s even worse than having another birthday?” Inside it says, “Hillary with PMS.”
You can buy notepaper that reads, “If President Clinton calls, tell her I’ll get right back to her.”
I thought only women of my generation — Hillary’s [...]
Preparing for the Birth Summit
By Donella Meadows
–April 21, 1994–
Two years ago the official name of the big conference was UNCED — the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development. Everyone called it the Earth Summit. This year the official name of the big conference, to be held in Cairo in September, is ICPD — International Conference on Population and Development. They’re calling it the [...]
After Rio: The Governments’ and the Citizens’ Energy Plans
By Donella Meadows
–April 14, 1994–
The Earth Summit in Rio, the largest global meeting ever held, is nearly two years behind us but still very much alive. Heads of state from nearly every government went home from Rio bearing treaties to implement, including a climate convention, a biodiversity agreement, and a sweeping environmental mandate called Agenda 21. There is a new [...]
