These words come from Wendell Berry, American poet and farmer. He is still alive and I want to meet him because he has the power to unleash the revolution in the human spirit that is needed to save the environmental foundations on which our society stands.
"The crisis is not in land use. It's in the lives and the minds of land users," he said in a letter that inspired the founding of the Tilth movement in America, the largest alternative agriculture coalition in that country.
Try this: "We have lived by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. We have been wrong. We must change our lives, so that it will be possible to live by the contrary assumption that what is good for the world will be good for us... We must recover the sense of the majesty of the creation and the ability to be worshipful in its presence. For it is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in it."
If you are not moved by these words, your cynicism levels are dangerously high for your health.
And this could be the slogan for the Carbon Coalition: "What I stand for is what I stand on."
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