Abigail Thomas, A Continuous Harmony: Think Little

In A Continuous Harmony, Berry tells of his concerns for more recent attention to the environment as is described as the ‘Environmental Movement,’ and that it may just be another fad like he said the Civil Rights Movement and Peace Movement were. I think it has kept up through the years although maybe not in the way that he would have loved. For instance he described that ends of the Movements’ fads were because periodic public talks in the media that were inflated by organization conflicts and politics, that those would fade, and that public involvement and concern would fade as not as many were so personally involved.
But the environment has definitely not faded form the public’s mind. And part of it I think has to do with how gas prices go up as there’s less gas, and for the public this has to do more with personal involvement that’s in the interest of self preservation. This self preservation as oppose to what I imagined Berry thought of personal involvement as spiritual, a person’s own disposition or experience that motivated them to a cause , organization, or project. The public’s concern is more related to affording and having resources to travel by what must be the most convenient way, by car. But this idea of self preservation is good in that to preserve ourselves we must preserve our resources which resources in their entirety to us is this whole planet and the systems of it.