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Meadowlark Economies

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Meadowlark Economies

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Perspectives on Ecology, Work, and Learing

James Eggert

First published 1992 by M.E. Sharpe

Published 2015 by Routledge

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Copyright 1992 Taylor & Francis. All rights reserved.

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Ubrary of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

Eggert, Jim. 1943

Meadowlark economics : perspectives on ecology, work, and learning / by James Eggert.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 1-56324-163-3 (paperback)

1. Economic developmentEnvironmental aspects. 2. Environmental

policy. 3. Environmental protection. 4. Human ecology. I. Title.

HD75.6.E.35 1992

363.7dc20

92-17735

CIP

ISBN 13: 9781563241635 (Pbk)

To my brother Rich, plus Dick Damro and John Medelmana trio of surprise and fond memories

Meadowlark Economics reprinted by permission from Challenge, The Magazine of Economic Affairs, M. E. Sharpe, September/October 1991 (Armonk, NY). Originally a briefer version was published in The Washington Post, August 4, 1991, under the title A Silence of Meadowlarks.

Craftsmanship and Salvation, first published in Jump River Review, March 1981 (Wausau, WI).

Less-Dependent Workers, first published in North Country Anvil, #45, Fall 1983 (Millville, MN).

Henry Thoreau as Economic Prophet, first published in North Country Anvil, #33, November 1980 (Millville, MN).

Consensus ForecastingA Ten Year Report Card, first published in Challenge, The Magazine of Economic Affairs, M.E. Sharpe, July/August, 1987 (Armonk, NY).

Pro-Growth vs. Anti-Growth, adapted from James Eggert, Invitation to Economics, Bristlecone/Mayfield, 1991, pp. 9699.

The Coming Repair Age, originally published in Craft Report, Vol. 7, #72, September, 1981 (Seattle, WA).

Some Liberal Praise For Milton Freedman, adapted from A Liberals Guide To Milton Friedman, first published in (Revolutionary Quarterly, #22, Summer, 1979 (Sausalito, CA).

Growth and Global Pollution, adapted from Invitation to Economics, Bristlecone/Mayfield, 1991, pp. 314319.

Topsoil Drama, first published in Elementary Teachers Ideas and Materials Workshop, December, 1988 (Great Neck, NY).

High Jumping, first published in Heartland Journal #13, Spring, 1983 (Chicago, IL).

The woodcuts used as illustrations in this book are attributed to Albrecht Durer. See The Complete Woodcuts of Albrecht Durer, edited by Willi Kurth, (New York: Dover Publications, 1963).

By the power of our imagination we can sense the future generations breathing with the rhythm of our own breath or feel them hovering like a cloud of witnesses. Sometimes I fancy that if I were to turn my head suddenly, I would glimpse them over my shoulder.1

Joanna Macy

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When Meadowlark Economics first landed on my desk in manuscript form, it captured my imagination. The meadowlarks brilliant, lilting song stirs happy childhood memories of a family farm in Wisconsin. The birds enchanting melody called me to wander into the meadow, the woods, and swamps along the edge of our eighty acres. A long lane led from our unpaved road to distant pastures. Every morning twenty milk cows trekked from barn to pasture and after grazing returned in the evening. That daily pounding of so many hooves ground the soil to fluffy powder that filled the wagon ruts on both sides of the lane. We kids loved to plotch our bare feet into those deep, cool furrows. The lark, advancing ahead of us, flitted from fence post to bush to tree, calling us forward to marshy pasture.

The summer sky shone crystal blue, with columns of cumulus clouds marching inexorably from west to east toward the distant horizon. The hot July breeze, smelling of late hay, set off waves rolling across the waist-high corn. The corn whispered in response to the sighing wind, and the lark gave counterpoint to the dialogue. The meadowlarks song and flight evokes images of man living in mutual harmony with an ordered naturepeaceful, tranquil, creative, and productive.

In reading Meadowlark Economics, I sensed the author shared my feelings about enjoying and preserving the natural environment. Yet this book also reveals a conflict in values that the most committed ecologist must face. Such conflict pits the powerful American values of individual freedom and rights against the values of community necessary for sustaining the environment.

Preserving the ecology has unavoidable logical consequences: individual action must be restrained and channeled in the use of air, water, soil, and other resources. It would be great if American society, families, schools, and other institutions could so educate and train people from childhood on in self-discipline and restraint, that laws, rules, incentives, and punishments administered by the community werent necessary. Some cultures achieve this more than our own. The Japanese have an admirable ability to achieve consensus, harmony, restraint and respect in many areas of life.

But the dominant American culture seems to move in the opposite direction: individual development, independence, competition, strife. The environment exists to be exploited for personal gain. As a result, the responsibility for preservation has been delegated to the communityin the tradition of Hobbes, Locke, and the eighteenth century Enlightenmentto create a civilized society by asking individuals to surrender some of their rights and freedoms to elected government. This is essential for any society to progress on a rational path from social anarchy to harmonious civilization.

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