Pictured, two things some think we should do without – preferring gold, copper ore, a short term money fix for a few, and poisoned salmon rivers forever.
[dropcap]I[/dropcap]n 2017 we did not learn “Our tools are better than we are, and grow better faster than we do. They suffice to crack the atom, to command the tides, … but they do not suffice for the oldest task in human history, to live on a piece of land without spoiling it.”
– Aldo Leopold
Featured Image: Toxic muck pours from a pipe into a seven-acre island retention site in the Indian River Lagoon (Florida). Photo credit Amy Green.