Our consentual environmental crisis (Berry)

November 13th, 2007  |  Published in Morality, Ecology, Economics, Quotes, Culture  |  1 Comment

We have an “environmental crisis” because we have consented to an economy in which by eating, drinking, working, resting, traveling, and enjoying ourselves we are destroying the natural, God-given, world.

–Wendell Berry, “The Total Economy” in Citizenship Papers (2003), p. 64

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  1. Eric Brown says:

    November 15th, 2007 at 5:11 am (#)

    That’s one of my all-time favorite Berry quotes because of how much it cuts to the core.

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