
The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry

The conservationists who are merely organized function as specialists who have lost sight of basic connections.
Wendell Berry • The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture
“To lose sight of the beauty of ideas and of hope and opportunity, and to frustrate the right to be needed, is to be at the dying edge.
To be a part of a throwaway mentality that discards goods and ideas, that discards principles and law, that discards persons and families, is to be at the dying edge.
To be at the leading edge of consumption, affluen
... See moreLife will cook; the seas will rise. The planet’s lungs will be ripped out. And the law will let this happen, because harm was never imminent enough.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
I take to heart Tim Garrett’s excellent work,7 indicating that only the collapse of industrial civilization will prevent runaway climate change. And there are many, many other good reasons to terminate this set of living arrangements. According to a United Nations report from August 2010, we’re driving to extinction 150 to 200 species every day. Th
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