Protecting endangered species is a law in the US. The question arises when one species can kill another species to protect a species at risk. Or do we let nature take its course or do we intervene and eliminate the predator? Could be a bird, a shark its predating so we can kill them off to save a species. Protection of endangered species requires humans to decide who lives or dies…

The Colorado River runs 1450 miles from the mountains of Wyoming to the Sea of Cortez south of Mexicali. But the river never reaches the sea. The entire river is diverted at the Morelos Dam and channeled into an irrigation system that feeds a massive agricultural industry.

When you think of wealth extraction I suspect that gold mining or oil and gas wells covering the countryside. But to better understand this process let’s read the definition first:

Wealth extraction - the process of extracting the most valuable elements of an ecosystem for human benefit at the expense of everything else.

The fantasy of wilderness is a lie. There is no wilderness, but there are cultural landscapes.