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Wendell Berry

Chapter 16 in Creating a Sustainable and Desirable Future:Insights from 45 Global Thought Leaders, 2014, pp 117-120 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: For more than 100 years, the coal-producing counties of eastern Kentucky have been dependent on the coal industry, which has dominated them politically and, submitting only to the limits of technology, has come near to ruining them. The legacy of the coal economy in the Kentucky mountains will be immense and lasting damage to the land and to the people. Much of the damage to the land and the streams, and to water quality downstream, will be irreparable within historical time. The lastingness of the damage to the people will, to a considerable extent, be determined by the people…

Keywords: Envisioning; Sustainable Future; Desirable Future; Positive Future; Future History; Scenarios; World Views (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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