![]() It is very efficient, and it can also be very profitable because as the construction profession calls it, you can “blow and go”. It was, and is, the placement of people on the landscape at an industrial-scale. Mass development in the United States started around that time, and many people my age remember it. In the beginning, prior to any environmental regulation of any kind, it was the installation of the “planned” community–massive, controlling, with complete disregard for the environment. The most famous example or “archetype” in the United States is Levittown, New York, built in the 1950’s. ![]() Virginia: Many people remember mass development, or mass local extinction, with the onset of the subdivision. It’s an awful story, but it looks like it motivated you to do something positive with your life! Mary: I read about an incident when you were age eight, which turned you into an environmentalist. ![]() It is an ecological journey, but also woven through it is Ellowyn’s deep emotional experience of being a human being in the modern world–and struggling with the reality that when a human being falls in love with its own planet, its society may not understand and may even ostracize those that care about the planet a very strange paradox when you think about it: a dead planet means a dead human race. ![]() Mary of Eco-fiction interviews Virginia Arthur, teacher, field biologist, and author of the novel Birdbrain. ![]()
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