Abigail Thomas, The Unsettling of America,Wendell Berry

"Exploitation" verses "nurture"
'Exploitation' without looking the history he goes into reminds me of indirect competition in ecology terms, where a competitor uses resources and which fellow competitors can’t use anymore or at least the resource is not constantly replenishing/ renewing. I worry that people are such exploitive competitors that directly as well as indirectly we have used up resources, and have reduced species diversity. The reduction of species diversity people have caused where otherwise there would have been more is not healthy for the ecosystems and this effects not just ecosystems but people too as we are very entwined and effective to all systems on this planet. There’s enough suffering without unnecessary exploitation; suffering is part of life and natural systems but it’s important to mind how much more suffering to promote.
As he explains the nature of exploiters, the nature seems to be narrow-minded as the long term does not seem to be considered. That’s amazing because if exploiters want profit so much they don’t research carrying capacity (as “specialists” or “experts”)of the to be used resource which would allow exploiters to use the resource forever even through their generations of progeny.
When I say carrying capacity all authentics in a system, that has the resource to be exploited, are sustainable and not permanently ruined as well as the resource. Not only should that guarantee protection of the resource, but also by ruining a other authentic besides the resource authentic could violate the carrying capacity of the system as everything is connected. Even if there is not enough scientific data to support consequential damage to a system, there’s still a big chance that an authentic totally exploited would change the system as it is known, and the big chance of change includes unhealthy results or changes for the worse. This theory of playing it safe doesn’t require expert study or data and may be a more ‘nurturing’ approach.