{"id":2394,"date":"2011-02-17T11:21:17","date_gmt":"2011-02-17T16:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/02\/the-mentality-that-exploits-and-destroys-the-natural-environment-wendell-berry.html"},"modified":"2011-02-17T11:21:17","modified_gmt":"2011-02-17T16:21:17","slug":"the-mentality-that-exploits-and-destroys-the-natural-environment-wendell-berry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/02\/the-mentality-that-exploits-and-destroys-the-natural-environment-wendell-berry.html","title":{"rendered":"The mentality that exploits and destroys the natural environment &#8211;Wendell Berry"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.alibris.com\/search\/books\/qwork\/1317085\/used\/A Continuous Harmony%3A Essays Cultural and Agricultural\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/3\/38\/Wberry.jpg\/240px-Wberry.jpg\"><\/a>\nAnd now a word from Wendell Berry:\n<blockquote>\nThe mentality that exploits and destroys the natural environment\nis the same that abuses racial and economic minorities&#8230;.\nThe mentality that destroys a watershed and then panics\nat the threat of flood is the same mentality that gives\ninstitutionalized insult to black people and then panics\nat the prospect of race riots.\n<\/blockquote>\nSource: &#8220;Think Little&#8221; in\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.alibris.com\/search\/books\/qwork\/1317085\/used\/A Continuous Harmony%3A Essays Cultural and Agricultural\">\nA Continuous Harmony: Essays Cultural and Agricultural<\/a>,\nby Wendell Berry, 1972.\nForty years later, that mentality is still a problem.\n<p>\n-jsq\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"And now a word from Wendell Berry: The mentality that exploits and destroys the natural environment is the same that abuses racial and economic minorities&#8230;. The mentality that destroys a watershed and then panics at the threat of flood is the same mentality that gives institutionalized insult to black people and then panics at the [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[97,202,14,16,55],"tags":[8704,8706,5036,5034,3391,5035,2067,8727,1871],"class_list":["post-2394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-agriculture","category-economy","category-environment","category-water","tag-economy","tag-environment","tag-exploitation","tag-floods","tag-greed","tag-mentality","tag-race","tag-water","tag-wendell-berry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-CC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}