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“...the Northern Rockies region is a rapidly changing part of the United States. Ironically, in many areas today's number-one threat is not clear-cutting, overgrazing, or destructive mining practices. It is something more insidious. Well-meaning people, many of them former visitors who were seduced into moving to the glorious region, are loving it to death.”

Environment Tourism Suburbanization Resource Extraction

Book:Journey to the Northern Rockies

Source: Journey to the Northern Rockies

“The more people do, the more society develops, the more problems arise. The increasing desolation of nature, the exhaustion of resources, the uneasiness and disintegration of the human spirit, all have been brought about by humanity's trying to accomplish something. Originally there was no reason to progress, and nothing that had to be done. We have come to the point at which there is no other way than to bring about a "movement" not to bring anything about.”

Progress Simplicity Consumption Non Doing Living Simply Resource Extraction

Book:The One-Straw Revolution

Source: The One-Straw Revolution

“If you want honey you need a hive of bees. But if you were trying to decide if making honey was a good idea, bees would be the last creatures to ask.”

Environment Corporations Resource Extraction

Book:Oil and Honey: The Education of an Unlikely Activist

Source: Oil and Honey: The Education of an Unlikely Activist

“The American West serves as a prototype for examining urban/hinterland relations under capitalism in still another way. Because the most powerful elements in capitalist social relations derive their authority from the ability to control allocative resources, it follows that the most significant places of capital accumulation would be the locus for decisions affecting the tiniest of hinterland outposts. In Appalachia, John Gaventa found that the forces "which propelled the development of a capital-intensive, resource extractive" economy "lay not in Appalachia but in the economic and energy demands of the British and American metropolis." ... Urban areas thus grew in accord with the degree and volume of capital invested in the adjacent countryside.”

Capitalism Resource Extraction Urban Vs Rural

Book:Colony and Empire: The Capitalist Transformation of the American West

Source: Colony and Empire: The Capitalist Transformation of the American West