ABSTRACT
It is important to note how a possible alternative is introduced. It is noted that students are eating berries from a local organic farm—a collective action that points to a creative response within the food web. As refreshing and edifying as the students' responses might be, they seem pitifully inadequate to the monumental task of forging socially and ecologically sustainable world food system. This raises compelling question, one that is almost certainly on the minds of most of the students: In the face of global problems like climate change, the extinction crisis, and the extremes of poverty and affluence, what does it mean to "make a creative response?" A truly creative response is more likely to emerge when action emerges from and is assessed in light of a deeper process of contemplation and reflection. The developmental challenge for young people coming of age at dawn of Anthropocene is beyond what most of their instructors have had to face.
