Racism from both sides of politics?

Comments by our two main political leaders, and various party apparatchiks, recently concerning sustainability causes me to think that it's funny how we like policies that increase population levels through a higher birth rate, but not ones that achieve the same goal through immigration.

Wendell Berry on the role of a University

In an essay published in 1987, The Loss of the University, Berry argued for a college education that would broaden a student’s exposure to a number of disciplines rather than produce the narrow skills of career-minded transients with no sense of a homeland.

At a 2007 commencement address at Bellarmine University, Berry railed against “the great and the would-be-great ‘research universities.’ These gigantic institutions, increasingly formed upon the ‘industrial model,’ no longer make even the pretense of preparing their students for responsible membership in a family, a community, or a polity … The American civilization so ardently promoted by these institutions is to be a civilization entirely determined by technology, and not encumbered by any thought of what is good or worthy or neighborly or humane.”