In this essay, Wendell Berry says, "Our technology is the practical aspect of our culture." This quote pretty much sums up his essay. He describes how much we waste energy through our technology by using the four basic elements: sun, earth, water, and fire. These four elements have been used since the cavemen days, but how they are used has changed significantly. Maybe we should go back to the basics for the Earth's sake. Or at least find a way of use of energy that is reusable, or maybe just regulate it so people cannot use as much. Berry states that there will be a time when the energy will be gone; it is not infinite.
However, relating this to my topic of global warming, by the time the energy begins to run out, the world will already be crumbling because of what happens during the use of energy. How we get energy is burning the fossil fuels which releases the CO2 in the air. I went over in my previous blogs the effects of CO2 and what scientists expect to happen. People can learn a lot from Berry's essay and maybe it will change these predictions.
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