The three main ideas about the hunter-gather, pastoral/farming, and the crafts person all convey something that we should be doing as people in the sense that these were once things that everybody used to do and we have now grown away from these ideas. The idea of hunter-gather idea is where the people treasure the land and treat it as something special and cherish what has been created. There is a sense of awe when looking at nature and seeing it through a religious sense in that the idea of God creating all of nature and that it should be treasured. The next idea of having a pastoral/farming idea is that there is not so much awe and preservation about what has been created by God and the aspect of nature around us but these people tend to be shepards to the land. These are the people that grow their own food and do not waist any resources and still take care of the land but not in the same sense as the hunter-gather. The crafts are those who are reshaping nature.
These three ideas are something that we as a society have drawn away from because we are concerned not about the environment but ourselves. We have grown into a consumer nation in which we make an abundance of things and waist our resources. His idea that we are going into this consumer way of thinking and going away from the ideas of being close to nature and viewing it as something important. I think that going back to the ways of not so much hunter-gather but more along the lines of being farmers/ploughmen would be a good thing because then we would still view nature as being important but we wouldn't treat it as bad as we do currently.
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