It’s a short read (only 4 pages–really 3, in earnest), which makes this speech-turned-essay by Wendell Berry an easy and timeless reminder to come back to again and again. It’s urgent, it’s simple, it’s straightforward: Less Energy = More Life.
“If we are not in favor of limiting the use of energy, starting with our own use of it, we are not serious…if we have the money and we are not willing to pay two dollars to keep the polluting industries from getting one, we are not serious. If, on the contrary, we become determined to keep the industries of poison, explosion, and fire from determining our lives and the world’s fate, then we will steadfastly reduce our dependence on them and our payments of money to them. We will cease to invest our health, our lives, and our money in them. Then finally we will be serious enough, our effort complex and practical enough. By so improving our lives, we will improve the possibility of life.” (Berry, 2013)
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