Derek Terrell: A Continuous Harmony #2: Environmental Movement

" There is considerable danger that the Environmental Movement will have the same nature: that it will be a public cause, served by organizations that will self-righteously criticize and condemn other organizations, inflated for a while by a lot of public talk in the media, only to be replaced in its turn by another fashionable crisis."

I agree with Wendell Berry that if the environmental movement is based solely on the public efforts to fix the environmental issues, then there will be a bunch of talk but no action essentially. Instead we should make this issue more of a higher priority with much more government attention, which is now focused on a pointless war. This would be better solution then leaving it up to public organizations who will just argue which solutions are better and nothing will really get done. Evidence of this already going on right now is obvious to anyone who remotely cares because ice glaciers in many places are continuing to melt more and more rapidly. I also would have to agree with Wendell Berry that if we don't pay attention to these environmental issues now then there will be another crisis that is introduced to us, that many people with power will consider higher priority then the wellness of the planet we depend on. If this process continues, the world will continue to break down and there won't be any trivial matters to worry about because there won't be anything left for us to live upon.