We need a peaceable economy (Berry)
October 10th, 2007 | Published in Consumerism, Economics, Morality, Quotes
The first thing we must begin to teach our children (and learn ourselves) is that we cannot spend and consume endlessly. We have got to learn to save and conserve. We do need a “new economy,” but one that is founded on thrift and care, on saving and conserving, not on excess and waste. An economy based on waste is inherently and hopelessly violent, and war is its inevitable by-product. We need a peaceable economy.
–Wendell Berry, “Thoughts in the Presence of Fear” in Citizenship Papers (2003), p. 22