Berry is very pessimistic about modern American society. He states that as a species we hve become arrogant to the point that we consider ourselves to be god-like. Overall, we are very wasteful and consume resources at an astonishing rate. For example, Americans use millions of plastic bottles a year. Many are not recycled and the waste beings to pollute the environment.
Berry claims that is necessary to place limits on ourselves in temrs of technology. By placing limits on ourselves we can fully analyze problems and create solutions that are extremely efficient. As stated by Berry, limits allow people to have a sense of “fullness”. Without pre-set limits it would be difficult to know where to end. This concept ties into our arrogance. As a society we do not know when enough is enough and we become greedy and wasteful as a result.
A prime example of this greed is with oil. Although the world’s supply is running low, many take its existence for granted and assume that oil will never run out completely.
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I do agree that Berry is pessimistic when it comes to modern American society, but he does have a right to. If we look around, we can completely see where he is coming from and how our waste and greed are hurting our surroundings, but we have yet to care because it isn't affecting us.
ReplyDeletethe people who should take this article into serious consideration should be superiors in the government and large corporations but even then they might not do anything at all. As we remember from high-tech trash, discarding waste properly cost a lot of money. not only are we wasting good items but we are discarding them disgracfully.
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