Colborn's involvement in the environment began with local Colorado issues, specifically water quality, which was threatened by mining development. And I began to realize that even though I may have known more about water than many of the people in the opposition, I didn't have the credentials. Colborn, who is a senior scientist with the World Wildlife Fund in Washington, D.C., was surprised to learn how many environmental groups are headed by women. We look at things more holistically. The literature claims women have more intuition than men, which broadens our scope of thinking and leaves us with more open minds.
Women have more feeling for how things interrelate than men.
This has to change. They're as difficult to organize as doctors, but once you get them going they're unstoppable. Women are much, more open with their feelings and the truth, and they're one of the golden keys to the salvation of the planet. Like Caldicott, Dartmouth professor Donella Meadows deserves credit for alerting the American people to looming environmental disaster. Her 1972 book The Limits of Growth was a wakeup call, based on computer projections, about the consequences of continued development and population growth.