Brien Carr - Think a little more... please

While reading Wendell Berry's work "A Continuous Harmony" I considered Berry's more passive approach to the idea of bringing about Environmental awareness. As I had commented before, from Berry's reaction in "The Unsettling of American," his tone seemed to be very condesending about his high and self-righteous approach to the subject. His remarks actually changed my opinion about the topic, from a, to each his own approach to a more responsible belief.

Berry points to the environmental movements that have taken place so far in our society as resembling the political fad movements of peace, and civil rights. For the envrionmental movement to evolve down this path would be dangerous. He also points to the social attitudes of the people that act as one of the largest reasons for little attention paid to the issue. I can understand his viewpoint about the greed and exploitation of the Earth by humankind much clearer with his more diplimatic approach to the issue. Berry points out that those that have led the charges in the realms of civil rights or peace have always blamed others for the results that they disagree with. However, I can clearly see that in respect to the environmental movement there is no on in particular to blame for the situation that has evolved over time. We must all take some of the blame as we have all shared a role in creating the society into the being that it is today.