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The Health Care System Is Sick
By Donella Meadows
–January 28, 1993—-
The annual letter from my health insurance company came on the same day I was reading in Future Survey about the U.S. health care system.
If you are one of those Americans still privileged to pay through the nose for health insurance, you get annual letters too. For four years in a row mine has announced a [...]
He’ll Break our Hearts, and We’ll Break His
By Donella Meadows
–January 21, 1993—-
It’s frightening to watch, every four or eight years, how we turn one of ourselves into a president.
At first, while he’s struggling toward the head of his party, we search out his dirty laundry. We blow up every rumor, no matter how unsavory its source, into a topic of national discussion. We view each aspirant with [...]
Taxing What We Don’t Want, Instead of What We Want
By Donella Meadows
–January 14, 1993—-
In spite of the wisecracks we all like to make about government, we know that if we didn’t have one, we would slowly — or maybe not so slowly — devolve to the hapless condition of a Bosnia or Somalia. We need government. So we have to pay for it. So we have to tax something.
But [...]
The Nuclear Power Industry Helps Women Sort Out the Issues
By Donella Meadows
–January 7, 1993–
The U.S. Council for Energy Awareness has finally figured out how to sell nuclear power to women.
Women have always been a problem to the nuclear industry. Polls consistently show them to be more opposed to nuclear power than men. (“Because of their deeply held distrust of science and technology,” the Council for Energy Awareness assumes.) The [...]
OK Kids, Time to Turn to your Snickers Lesson
By Donella Meadows
–October 1, 1992–
The scariest article I have read in a long time appeared in the September 21 issue of The Nation. It was written by Jonathan Kozol, and it is about the plan George Bush, Lamar Alexander, and Chris Whittle are hatching for America’s schools.
You know who George Bush is. Lamar Alexander is his Secretary of Education. Chris [...]
