Jim, You may want to add this to our reading list, but I am sending it the OE ListServe anyway. Over and over again it is a matter of money. The local people are punished by a company that doesn’t relate to them. Follow the money. You will find that Mantra applies to much of the globe. Globality is now the way we need to see things. The poor and those that must work in these areas suffer. Notice how nobody seems to track it. It also is behind much of the forest fires and drought. Peace, Jack From The New York Times: The Central California Town That Keeps Sinking The very ground upon which Corcoran, Calif., was built has been slowly but steadily collapsing, a situation caused primarily not by nature but agriculture. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/25/us/corcoran-california-sinking.html?smid=... <https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/25/us/corcoran-california-sinking.html?smid=em-share>