Arizona State University - Sun Devil Spark / Sahuaro Yearbook (Tempe, AZ)

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Our crises makes it unrealistic for us to consider our problems in any but a planetary, or whole-earth context. 19

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T 1-'fy il We cannot consume very much more of the earth without consuming ourselves along with it. 5. . 1' -Iaf' ,lex ?- T1 l. ff: .QQ 'ml fl' 'Q' V ffgqgQki',j254 . 4 - ii : like hunger, war, resource allocation and management, bureau-cratic organization - To put the case another way, identification of a problem as environmental, rather than as ideological, has a cluster- effect, drawing to it a host of other equally important ad- ditional problems. The side- effect, or spin-off, of solving an environmental problem is to settle this issue. Thus, as we act to clean up our environ- ment we are likely to be hu manizing our society. As we recognize the limits of our situation, we are cau- tioned to act in ways from which we and others can re- cover. Because the times are so perilous and any form of 18-Environmental Crises 4-.. Yu 'ru 'tg I xl I death lincluding eco-death! is so final, we are becoming conscious of the kinds of thinking that leads to actions which no one can repair. The introduction of limits into our situation gives us the security we need to plan an innovative, non-manipulative and adjustable future. And, in these circumstances, ordinary people everywhere may be able to manage their destinies once again. The possibilities and alter- natives seem quite clear. What our reaction will be is not nearly as clear or as definite. There are many reasons why we might falter. The saddest is a grave matter which Professor Mark Reader carefully con- Z' siders and mourns. We Americans do not recognize each other as a people with common concerns and a common destiny as long as we refer to each other as hard-hats and long-hairs, as radi-libs and fascists, as oppres- sors and oppressed. With survival at stake, we are none of these: we are quite simple, each of us, a hurting part of humanity that is feeling its age.

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