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You See the Greenhouse Effect When You Believe It
By Donella Meadows
–March 4, 1993–
Well, according to Rush Limbaugh and the Mobil Oil Corporation, we can stop worrying about global warming.
Says Mobil in an ad titled “Apocalypse no”: “Unfortunately, the media hype proclaiming that the sky was falling did not properly portray the consensus of the scientific community…. Subsequent colder than normal temperatures across the country cooled the warming hysteria…. [...]
The Failed Clinton Presidency Is Off to a Good Environmental Start
By Donella Meadows
–February 25, 1993—-
“It’s only the first week of February and the Clinton administration is in its final days.”
“Our youthful president and his coterie of oafs have almost on a daily basis blundered.”
“There are troubling signs that [Clinton’s] administration might be at least half-empty, … self-absorbed in its pursuit of personal agendas.”
“How could this fellow have sounded so good [...]
How to Beat the Coming Gas Price Hike
By Donella Meadows
–February 18, 1993—-
There is much talk of sacrifice these days, and much media drama about whether the American people will actually accept such a terrible hardship as an energy tax. The fuss is exaggerated. The energy tax is predictable, sensible, and long overdue. The people asked for it. And it is not a sacrifice.
In the last election the [...]
Town Meetings of the Airwaves
By Donella Meadows
–February 11, 1993—-
I’m a talk-radio junky. I’d rather listen to real folks stumbling to express their own thoughts than to polished puppets reading what someone else has written. I tune into Larry, Rush, and the folks who call in to them, to keep myself awake, chuckling, thinking, and every now and then yelling in outrage.
One item of talk [...]
A President for the Bottom of the Long Wave
By Donella Meadows
–February 4, 1993–
According to long wave theory, Bill Clinton has arrived too early to ride upward on an expanding economy with the politics of easy liberalism. Clinton’s presidency will span the bottom of an economic trough, which used to be called a “depression” and is now called a “structural adjustment.” It will be a time of uncertainty and [...]
