What is stunning to me here is that you could have come to Idaho and taken pretty much the exact same pictures. Yellow Pine was a HOPPIN' little mining town... then Agenda 21 happened. Now the Chinese own the mineral rights, if I am not mistaken. Parcel by parcel, deeded claims are being stolen by the Federal Government and the land declared "Wilderness." The miners who kept this nation running during WW2 are dying, penniless, and their shacks are being bulldozed. An entire era of our history is being wiped out under the guise of "environmentalism." The truth is, the woods were MUCH healthier when the miners and loggers were LIVING and WORKING there.
The culture of consumption is thriving. People take, destroy and throw. But under the guise of ecology and other good deeds, can be demolished any village ... and then lease it to another country. Profit!
It is an interesting juxtaposition, the "globalists" vision for the world versus the global vision emerging on steemit.