And now a word from Wendell Berry:

The mentality that exploits and destroys the natural environment
is the same that abuses racial and economic minorities….
The mentality that destroys a watershed and then panics
at the threat of flood is the same mentality that gives
institutionalized insult to black people and then panics
at the prospect of race riots.

Source: “Think Little” in

A Continuous Harmony: Essays Cultural and Agricultural,
by Wendell Berry, 1972.
Forty years later, that mentality is still a problem.

-jsq