Sentence examples for ecological guilt from inspiring English sources

Whether a residential turbine saves a money or just eases ecological guilt depends largely on the wind.

The New Yorker, October 3, 1970 P. 27 This fair land was settled in the odor of original sin, by Puritans grimly determined to forge a paradise and ecological self-consciousness returns us to the bracing sense of unavoidable guilt.

By John Updike The New Yorker, October 3, 1970 P. 27 This fair land was settled in the odor of original sin, by Puritans grimly determined to forge a paradise and ecological self-consciousness returns us to the bracing sense of unavoidable guilt.

But no one says what to do with recovered health, let alone uses his newfound sanity to reckon the personal cost — in guilt, dread, shame or resentment — of a vicious political economy promising dividends in ecological catastrophe.

Guilt, guilt, guilt.

Also, guilt.

Guilt assuaged.

His guilt?

No guilt.

— white guilt.

Guilt lingers.