Faustian Economics

This guy uses the words "limitlessness" and "limitless" way too many times its annoying. I couldn't even concentrate on reading because every other word was limitlessness or limitless. Anywayyy...

Berry clearly doesn't think too highly of the lifestyle of Americans. He gives numerous examples of how Americans waste almost everything and the only thing they care about is themselves. He pretty much starts off the article with "the real names of global warming are Waste and Greed." He gets his opinion right out there so there is absolutely NO confusion on what he believes. One of the examples he uses to support his claim of waste and greed is the remaining resources of coal. Americans are not yet considering new methods for fuel because the current coal supply is enough to last another 100 years. Americans seem to be fine with this and Berry asks "why?" Humans have been alive for thousands of years so why are we content with only another 100? It is because there is too much of a profit to be made on coal. Why would you stop something if its making you a millionaire? That is how people see it, not that sooner or later we aren't going to have any more coal so we better find an alternative now.
Berry goes on to argue that humans have a sense of limitlessness. Even though all humans have this feeling, it is not true. Berry states that people have to realize that everything actually does have a limit. We don't get more coal, we don't get another planet to harvest, and we don't get more time added onto our lives. This is what people need to realize and embrace. He then goes on to talk about how artists, not scientists are the ones who understand limits. They work in bounds in which no matter how big a painting or work of art, it is always confined to a frame or border. He believes we need to look to the arts, not science in order to understand our limits.