... pregnancy as a call for optimism. Even when events appear unremittingly grim, pregnancy shows that there is still cause for hope in our children. It was a wonderful article and a great image. Only one problem: Donella Meadows wasn’t pregnant. Oops!! Wrong!!! Kathryn Schultz tells this story on her friend Ross Gelbson in her remarkable book Being Wrong (HarperCollins Publishers, 2010). Schultz wants to convince her readers that “being wrong” is not something we can avoid, and it isn’t even something ...
... allowed in the modern culture to speak about love, except in the most romantic and trivial sense of the word. Anyone who calls upon the capacity of the people to practice ... love is more likely to be ridiculed than to be taken seriously" (233). Donella Meadows, Dennis Meadows and Jorgen Randers have taken that risk and have ended their book with a clarion call for the peoples of this planet to "practice love." It is, they believe, our only hope if we are to escape "overshoot" (stepping beyond the limits of ...
