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Ross Perot, Jesse Jackson, and the Politics of Protest
By Donella Meadows
–July 24, 1992–
Though I hadn’t made up my mind to vote for Ross Perot, I was sorry to see him leave the campaign. I like him, for the same reasons that I like Jesse Jackson.
They are both delightfully unprofessional. They won’t submit to the grooming and polishing of party machines. They don’t need polls to know what to [...]
Al Gore for Vice President
By Donella Meadows
–July 9, 1992–
Until now it was hard for people who care about the environment to get excited about the presidential election. We had a choice between George Bush, whose performance on environmental matters is graded D by the League of Conservation Voters, Bill Clinton, who gets a C, and Ross Perot, who says, when asked about the environment, [...]
Time for a Celebration
By Donella Meadows
–July 2, 1992–
If at any time over the past 50 years a message from God had arrived, written across the sky so that no one could deny its source, assuring the world’s people that by 1992 the Cold War would be over, that Russia and America would slash their arsenals, that the terror of communism and of nuclear [...]
Traumas to the Planet That Have and Haven’t Happened
By Donella Meadows
–June 25, 1992–
Last January scientists warned that the Northern Hemisphere was about to be visited by a massive ozone hole. The hole never appeared.
The community of Times Beach, Missouri, was abandoned because of contamination with dioxin. Two years ago the Environmental Protection Agency launched a reassessment of dioxin’s toxicity.
Until recently everyone “knew” that acid rain was killing forests. [...]
Earth Summit Summary–Consciousness Precedes Being
By Donella Meadows
–June 18, 1992–
Was it all a waste of time, the enormous, contentious Earth Summit? One member of the German delegation summed it up, “Whether Rio was a disappointment depends on what one expected.” Most of the participants I’ve talked to expected little. Therefore they were pleasantly surprised.
Knowing George Bush and the people to whom he listens, no one [...]
