On ecological vs industrial worldviews:

"The most significant weakness of the conservation movement is its failure to produce or espouse an economic idea capable of correcting the economic idea of the industrialists. Somewhere near the heart of the conservation effort as we have known it is the romantic assumption that, if we have become alienated from nature, we can become unalienated by making nature the subject of contemplation or art, ignoring the fact that we live necessarily in and from nature — ignoring, in other words, all the economic issues that are involved. Walt Whitman could say, “I think I could turn and live with animals,” as if he did not know that, in fact, we *do* live with animals, and that the terms of our relation to them are inescapably established by our economic use of their and our world. So long as we live, we are going to be living with skylarks, nightingales, daffodils, waterfowl, streams, forests, mountains, and all the other creatures that romantic poets and artists have yearned toward. And by the way we live we will determine whether or not those creatures will live." - wendell berry, in "the fatal harvest reader: the tragedy of industrial agriculture"

#ecology #environment #agriculture #industrialism #nature #conservation #ClimateChange