It is a process that has been going on for many years, since Thomas Malthus sounded the alarm in the 18th century that if we did not stop not populate the planet, we would exhaust our planet. agricultural resources, leading to wars and societal collapse. Berry's arguments are similar to the modern Malthusian view, that we will run out of natural resources and render our land unusable. However, Malthus's plight was overcome by the Green Revolution, which brought about agricultural progress and higher agricultural yields. We can't really know what the future holds, but if scientific ingenuity has already prevented the destruction of the world and civil society, we can't say it won't happen now. Berry wants to attribute the idolatry of science when it is actually at the heart of our humanity. It is in our nature to behave in a certain way. As we progress, we learn to curb these behaviors. Our struggles are inherent to our qualities; This does not mean we give up, move backwards and create a new society. There is no way to maintain the current society and standard of living if we move in this direction. We can push society in this way, but we cannot change it completely. To argue that we should not have gone into the cores is to say that we should not have had slavery; but we