The Legacy of Extraction: Reading Patterns and Ethics on Pennsylvania's Landscape of Energy
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We are used to seeing propeller blades spin, whether they are attached to the chassis of a helicopter or an airplane. Nevertheless, it is unnerving today to see the ridges of Pennsylvania's Allegheny Mountains lined with some of the largest propellers humans have ever constructed: Will they be strong enough to lift the long, slight, tree-covered ridges? Is that the intention? Of course not. But the history lessons embodied in Pennsylvania's energy landscapes are not lost on the people who live and work there. For the past 150 years, ground zero for Americans' harvest and management of energy resources has been the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
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New Perspectives on the Environmental History of the Mid-Atlantic
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