{"id":16499,"date":"2017-01-24T17:12:25","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T23:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=16499"},"modified":"2017-01-12T12:13:45","modified_gmt":"2017-01-12T18:13:45","slug":"center-for-a-livable-future-wendell-berry-this-is-still-a-very-beautiful-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/24\/center-for-a-livable-future-wendell-berry-this-is-still-a-very-beautiful-world\/","title":{"rendered":"(Center for a Livable Future) Wendell Berry: This Is Still a Very Beautiful World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EXCERPT: He rued how today\u2019s economy has destroyed our own self-reliance. \u201cWe depend on suppliers for everything we have,\u201d he said. The American farmer who grows corn or soybeans is an example of this total dependence; the farmer\u2019s economy consists only of buying and selling. \u201cThe farmer has nothing to fall back on, nothing that he can do for himself,\u201d he said. \u201cThere\u2019s very little that the farmer is taking from nature.\u201d This is in sharp contrast to an older mo<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">del of farming, in which farmers could always fall back on subsistence\u2014land under their feet that they could use\u2014and an attitude recalled by Mr. Berry from farmers in his childhood who also kept gardens: \u201cThey may run me out, but they\u2019ll never starve me out.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p>On climate change, he said that while he acknowledges it, he finds it to be a distraction. By focusing on climate change, he said, we turn our focus away from the multitude of things that are wrong. \u201cWe need a broad-fronted economic movement to protect everything that\u2019s worth protecting, to stop damage to everything that\u2019s worth keeping,\u201d he said, suggesting that such a movement would need to become part of every day life for everyone. \u201cA whole program like that needs to be carried out by whole people who are not ashamed to use words like love, honesty and fidelity.\u201d He also suggested that the reason we\u2019re not seeing enough traction on climate change is that we are using the wrong tactics to make people care\u2014fear, guilt and anger. Instead of basing our entire strategy on how scared we are about the future, we should base a strategy on love. \u201cWe all need to find things we love to do, and do them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve been talked out of love, mercy, kindness,\u201d he said, laying some blame at the feet of scientists who strive to reduce or quantify such qualities. \u201cWe\u2019ve got to take those things back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jhsph.edu\/research\/centers-and-institutes\/johns-hopkins-center-for-a-livable-future\/news-room\/our-stories\/2016\/wendell-berry.html\">Click Here to Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jhsph.edu\/research\/centers-and-institutes\/johns-hopkins-center-for-a-livable-future\/news-room\/our-stories\/2016\/wendell-berry.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-14204\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/wendellberry.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"292\" height=\"323\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EXCERPT: He rued how today\u2019s economy has destroyed our own self-reliance. \u201cWe depend on suppliers for everything we have,\u201d he said. The American farmer who grows corn or soybeans is an example of this total dependence; the farmer\u2019s economy consists only of buying and selling. \u201cThe farmer has nothing to fall back on, nothing that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16500,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16499\/revisions\/16500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}