Friday, February 23, 2018
We Are Not Smart Enough
Wendell Berry, What Are People For? (Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2010), p. 209:
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For a long time now we have understood ourselves as traveling toward some sort of industrial paradise, some new Eden conceived and constructed entirely by human ingenuity. And we have thought ourselves free to use and abuse nature in any way that might further this enterprise. Now we face overwhelming evidence that we are not smart enough to recover Eden by assault, and that nature does not tolerate or excuse our abuses.
