The Ecological Crisis as a Crisis of CharacterWendell Berry“The split between what we think and do is profound”Slide 4“The disease of the modern character is specialization”Slide 6Slide 7Slide 8Slide 9Slide 10Slide 11A Terrarium View of the WorldSlide 13Kindly UseKindly Use in AgricultureSlide 18Evolution of Producers and ConsumersSlide 20“It is a crisis of culture”The Ecological Crisis as a Crisis of CharacterWendell BerryWendell BerryKentucky authorNational Humanities Medal“The split between what we think and do is profound”Is this the way the “real world” works?We all contribute to destruction, but it is possible to be less destructive. It begins with recognizing what is wrong.“The disease of the modern character is specialization”How does this affect the average citizen?“[Institutional] solutions necessarily fail to solve the problems to which they are addressed because, by definition, that cannot consider the real causes”Consumer rightsConsumer responsibilities“The responsible consumer must also be in some ways a producer”“[He] thus escapes the limits of his own dissatisfaction”“The use of the world is finally a personal matter, and the world can be preserved in health only by the forbearance and care of a multitude of persons”The Ecological Crisis as a Crisis of AgricultureWendell Berry“No matter how general may be a person’s attitude toward the world, his impact upon it must become specific and tangible at some point”A Terrarium View of the World“The concern for wilderness must stand at the apex of the conservation effort, just as it probably must stand at the apex of consciousness in any decent culture”Our biological and cultural roots are in nature To be humble in our use of the world we need places we don’t useWilderness is a standard of civilization and a cultural modelKindly UseKindly Use in AgricultureFarmFarmHouseholdHouseholdNew household and farm rolesQuantitative standards replace qualitative standardsGeneralizing the relationship between people and landLand divided into two kindsFarmers divided into two kinds“AGRIPOWER”SurplusProductivityEfficiency“Full Production”“Economy of Size”SpecializationEvolution of Producers and Consumers“We are eating – drawing our lives out of land – thoughtlessly”“It is a crisis of