Had I simply not been aware of the violence Montana's mining history did to land and to people, did I not think of where so many mineral resources (copper, especially) needed for wiring Planet Earth for electrical and electronic aspects of modernization and industrialization originated? I don't know. This book changed my perspective and my awareness! However, before I read this book, I'd bought the "Big Sky" chamber of commerce image of a near-pristine, close to unspoiled Montana. Montana is one of the handful of the contiguous 48 United States I've never driven through or along the edge-never even alighted momentarily at a Montana airport on my way to another destination. "Opportunity was born so that Anaconda could live, and now it's dying for Missoula's sake." īrad Tyer has written a revelatory, passionate, occasionally autobiographical, somewhat historical chronicle about the Clark Fork of the Columbia River, about a very small town named "Opportunity," about the human and planetary cost of extractive mining for metals, about the staggeringly high price of industrialization.
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