What has happened is that most people in [the
developed world] have given proxies to the corporations
to produce and provide all of their food, clothing,
and shelter. Moreover, they are rapidly giving
proxies to corporations or governments to provide
entertainment, education, child care, care of the sick
and elderly, and many other kinds of “service” that
once were carried on informally and inexpensively by
individuals or households or communities….
The trouble with this is that a proper concern
for nature and our use of nature must be practiced,
not by our proxy-holders, but by ourselves…. The
“environmental crisis,” in fact, can be solved only
if people, individually and in their communities,
recover responsibility for their thoughtlessly given
proxies.
http://www.worldwatch.org/system/files/EP135A.pdf
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