Outlawing manufactured waste (Berry)
February 20th, 2008 | Published in Consumerism, Culture, Ecology, Politics, Quotes
I know of no good reason why these containers and all other forms of manufactured “waste”—solid, liquid, toxic, or whatever—should not be outlawed. There is no sense and no sanity in objecting to the desecration of the flag while tolerating and justifying and encouraging as a daily business the desecration of the country for which it stands.
—Wendell Berry, “Waste” in What Are People For? (1990), p. 127.