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Deja vu all over again: https://www.bring4th.org/forums/showthread.php?tid=5118&pid=236916#pid236316






"In man's first development of the earth, destructive exploitation is of primary importance. Even
to-day many new countries are developed only through what we might call a combination of modes
of destructive exploitation. Among the different forms of destructive exploitation we shall find that
some have a normal and methodic quality while others show an unrestrained intensity that makes
them well deserve the German name of Raubwirtschaft -- that is, economic plunder, or more simply,
devastation. Destructive exploitation, Raubwirtschaft, is, in a sense, a particular form of gathering
or harvesting, Sammelwirtschaft, but it attacks nature with much more violence. This violent attack
may end in want (Not), and we then have characterisierte Raubwirtschaft, characteristic devastation.
It seems particularly strange that characteristic devastation with all its grave consequences should
especially accompany civilization, while primitive folk know only milder forms of it. They do indeed
partially despoil and destroy, but they hardly ever devastate, in the true sense of the word, and they
do not have to suffer the want that is the usual result of devastation."

-- Jean Brunhes, Human Geography: An Attempt at a Positive Classification -- Principles and Examples
(Chicago & NY: Rand McNally & Co., transl. 2nd ed., 1920), pp 330-1, Ch. V, "The Essential Facts of
Human Geography (Concluded) -- Third Group: Facts of Destructive Exploitation: Plant and Animal
Devastation; Mineral Exploitation" https://archive.org/details/cu31924032360830




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