On Plastic....

.....'when faced with abundance humans consume abundantly - an idea that has survived to become the basis of our present economy.  It is neither natural nor civilized, and even from a 'practical' point of view it is to the last degree brutalizing and stupid.'

'We have lived by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world.  And this has been based on the even flimsier assumption that we could know with any certainty what was good even for us.  We have fulfilled the danger of this by making our personal pride and greed the standard of our behaviour toward the world....'

'We undertook the privilege of the virgin abundance of this land without any awareness at all that we undertook at the same time a responsibility toward it.  That responsibility has never yet impressed itself upon our character, its absence in us is signified on the land by scars.'

                                                                           Wendell Berry