It's the American way

The article assigned to us was "Faustian Economics" by Wendell Berry and it was one in which he criticized just about every aspect of American life. The point of this article though was to convey to us how little we are actually doing to help our ever growing climate problem, and the useless steps that we take to "fix" it. Overall I felt that the author just doesnt like America or our way of life at all for the most part. He claims that we view our way of life as "indestructible", the idea that we are able to consume anything and everything that we want at the expense of the world.
Berry's ultimate solution for this is that we must abolish this standard that we as Americans have if we want to actually fic the climate problem. All of the "biofuels" (Berry 2) which he feels only benefits the manufacturer, is not a legitimate way to solve global warming. We must get rid of our greed and wastefulness because through all of this we continue to burn more and more fossil fuels everyday. If we were to all cut back then this would have a real impact. Driving around hybrid cars is not the ultimate solution for all of this.
Along with these thoughts, Berry also touches upon a philosophical aspect into what we do. According to him it seems that everything we do in our ways to fix our problems, mainly climate, is rooted in our way to consume constantly and also in our high standard of living. The biofuel example is one such because it shows that we still look to produce ways to fix our problems but they will com at a cot and in the end someone or another will profit from it all. Is the American way too greedy? He writes about the ideas that we only look for high costing solutions which involve advanced technology and machinery, while his views are that we must stop consuming and wasting on such a grand scale. This would have a greater impact on the fight against global warming. One other example which believes me to take this as a philosophical account is that he touches upon how we classify ourselves, "animals" the idea that we are limitless in everything that we do proves us not to be animals but "limitless animals" as Berry puts it. He uses the eample of how the God of Exodus does not choose to classify or define himself because by giving a definition this implies that we have limits. He merely says that "I am that I am" meaning that he simply is and is limitless. (Berry 2)