" More serious is the resort to "authorized" modes of direct violence. In land use, this is the permanent dimishment or destruction of fertility as an allowable cost of production, as in strip-mining or in the sort of agriculture that good farmers have long referred to also as mining. This use of technological means cuts across all issues of health and culture for the sake of an annual quota of production."
I like how berry relates the harmful impact of massive agriculture expansion on the land and the people because there has to be a certain amount of destruction, for individuals to keep there jobs. At first glance it appeared to me that Berry was focusing on just health issues of people instead of the loss of something we take for granted everyday. But as i thought about this quote a little bit, i realized that maybe she is considering the lost of nature as the direct violence towards people. The loss of nature can be violent towards many cultures because there are numerous people around the world who depend on the very essence of nature and wilderness to survive. Also many people who leave their natural setting just to get away and share a spiritual connection with the wilderness around them wouldn't be able too just because someone has to reach an annual quota. This quote also reminded me of class, when Redick explained to us how a sales manage thought it was irate at the fact that land was available for public use with no profit gained at all. This is actually pretty humorous to me because the sale manager was obviously blinded by $$ to see everlasting profit that the land and nature have to offer us everyday. By only thinking of land as a money making tool, many people forget how much all living organisms depend on nature as much as nature depends on us.
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