Literal ashes, far too
many, darken the Navajo sky. Our civilization, soaring to power
by using up its environmental capital, now exports its power-plant
pollution to what were the clean skies of the southwest. To have
taken the land was not enough; the air must be taken too, so
that the Los Angeles basin, Central Arizona, and Las Vegas could
force their roots out farther still, grow insatiably, and damn
the expense as long as it wasn't theirs. . . .
David R. Brower
