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“Longtime rural farmers and ranchers are used to people coming into their living rooms to tell them what they should do with their land. They tend to be very polite and patient. Insurance brokers, government agents, zoning administrators, and now conservationists all have ideas to which generations of ranchers have listened.”
― A Field Guide to Conservation Finance
― A Field Guide to Conservation Finance
“It was puzzling to me that not once did the ultra-wealthy I spoke with wax romantic about the working poor in the large city where they had once worked or lived. The working poor in New York City or Houston were one thing, but the working poor in Teton County were another – even though members of both communities share a struggle to keep their heads above water, facing low wages, high rents, and dim prospects overall for scaling the socioeconomic pyramid. Why was one romanticized as a paradigm of virtue and happiness, and the other not? The difference, it turns out, is that the working poor in Teton County have become a vehicle for escapism for the ultra-wealthy, in large part because their struggle takes place in a locale that is geographically remote and environmentally exotic.”
― Billionaire Wilderness: The Ultra-Wealthy and the Remaking of the American West
― Billionaire Wilderness: The Ultra-Wealthy and the Remaking of the American West
“We have a simple request. If it isn't cohousing - if the resident group does not participate in a meaningful way to building the community; if the common house is poorly designed and thwarts community; if cars creep into spaces that should be reserved for people; if cars creep into the houses themselves; if residents don't have anything real in common; and if the residents don't have regular common dinners - then please do not call it cohousing. It is something else.”
― Creating Cohousing: Building Sustainable Communities
― Creating Cohousing: Building Sustainable Communities
“Presently I met a woman I knew who was wearing a bright new khaki uniform, loaded down with all the leather and metal gadgets it would hold. She was sailing for London, she said, to supervise the work of feeding school-lunches to undernourished children in the London schools. Wasn't it horrible, she said, that on account of the war 12 percent of them were undernourished? 'That is horrible,' I said, 'but what would you say if I told you t hat, in New York, 21 percent of the school children are undernourished, and largely on account of that same war?”
― Fighting for Life
― Fighting for Life
“This scholarly shortfall did not happen by chance. Part of it has to do with particular discomforts characteristics of left-leaning academic social scientists. Conducting high-quality ethnographic or long-term participant observation research can require a great deal of empathy for one’s subjects. Such research involves more or less taking on the perspective of the people and culture being studied. It means listening to their stories with honesty and, if only for a moment, giving their experiences and their explanations the benefit of the doubt. But most social scientists know the facts about inequality, wealth, and privilege, and thus find the empathy required for ethnographic research in short supply when it comes to the ultra-wealthy. Empathy is more naturally given to the people and communities obviously suffering harm, rather than, say, a Wall Street financier who struggles with the life complexities and social-psychological dilemmas that accompany immense wealth and power.”
― Billionaire Wilderness: The Ultra-Wealthy and the Remaking of the American West
― Billionaire Wilderness: The Ultra-Wealthy and the Remaking of the American West
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