Apparently everywhere in the "developed world" human communities and their natural and cultural supports are being destroyed, not by natural calamities or "acts of God" or invasion by foreign enemies, but by a sort of legalized vandalism known as "the economy." The economy now famously depends upon the authority and the applicable knowledge of science. It would therefore be useful to say what is the character of this science that has benefited us in so many ways, and yet has cost us so dearly and exacted from us such deference and such questionable permissions.
-Wendell Berry, Life Is A Mircle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition
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