Friday, January 30, 2009

Wes Jackson on sustainability and being realistic

RJ: It’s also likely that many people reading this will dismiss you as idealistic, as unrealistic. How would you answer that?



WJ: These are the same people who believe it’s realistic to continue practices they know to be unsustainable. The basic choice is simple: Do we want to work at coming up with a system that can produce healthful food and healthy communities, one that is economically and ecologically viable? Or do we want to continue to contaminate our soil and water, as we watch that soil continue to be eroded by that water? That contamination and erosion are both material reality and metaphor for our cultural and economic condition.
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