Consuming Nature: The Uneasy Relationship Between Technology, Outdoor Recreation and Protected Areas
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Our culture has seldom been inclined to confront the profound changes that accompany technological innovation. Like a carrot prompting a cart horse, technology entices us forward in a way that keeps us from noticing much about the road ahead, each offering results in such a slight movement that by the time we realize we are far from home, no serious re-examination of our fate seems possible. — Attributed to J. Robert Oppenheimer, Ethics for New Life Forms
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