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Home 9 Publications 9 Secondary Sources 9 It’s Time to Reinvent the Human if we hope to save our planetary home
It’s Time to Reinvent the Human if we hope to save our planetary home

By Valerie Andrews

Reinventing Home
Summer 2020

A scholar and a Passionist priest who called himself a “geologian,” Berry was fluent in fourteen languages and widely read in the disciplines of archaeology, philosophy, cosmology, religion, earth science and world history. In 1984, I interviewed him for The Tarrytown Letter, a magazine of new ideas.

We began with Toynbee’s notion that we are moving into a chapter in human history in which our choice is going to be, not between a whole world and a shredded up world, but between one world and no world. Berry views this period of disinformation and dissolution as the last gasp of the old era, a painful yet necessary prelude to the new ecological age.

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