Analysis Of The Great Work By Thomas Berry

The book called the great work by Thomas Berry was based on the new way humans can promote a new way of living it is our responsibility to do so that as human beings we are a part of nature not outside of it. How to have a relationship with the world not to view it as the subject than an object. He uses historical research to emphasize the progression of separation between humans and the natural world natural world. He also talks about how important education is and the role it plays shaping individuals mindsets of nature to understand the human being as a part of nature. In his writing, he portrays the basic shifts of humanity and the ecological systems. Berry 's work speak about the important need for change now today in our ecological …show more content…
He refers to words like sacred, or spiritual is found within the Earth 's natural processes.
His analyses of the problems are accurate in terms of identifying the historical causes of our ecological crises and how an overall shift in how we encounter the world must come about in order for real lasting change to take place. He refers to right now today as our moment of grace which is chapter seventeen (page 196), a time when we discover ourselves having the potential to change things and create an energy and a different way of being. He fully explains how he want individuals to acknowledge the present opportunities and use them as life changing and world-shifting methods to build as a non-destructive member species of the Earth community. Berry insist that most people can connect their own experiences with …show more content…
I feel people who have a view of this such might have a bad look on life or stuck in a religious domicile. Berry explains joy has no meaning unless there is a downside to it. which means we must have a spiritual domicile to create happiness or melancholy. I tend to experience human condition moment to moment savoring every bit of it, Thomas formed a solid argument for the support of the idea of deep Ecology. He took a look at humans and their standpoint on the environmental problem. What he found out is that humans don 't have too much of a perspective on the environmental problem. Individuals are in their own little bubble. They line this bubble with as many useless gadgets as they can that make their life just a little easier. The problem is that they are blinded from the problems arising around them. The planet is on life support, our resources are depleting, species are dying off by the minute, and everything we have will be gone if we keep up at the same rate which he wanted to change this. For a movement like this to happen, it will be a change in the way people