Passé un certain point, plus d'énergie signifie moins d'équité. Au rythme du plus rapide moyen de transport, on voit gonfler le traitement de faveur … - Ivan Illich

P24- the power of school loss to divide social reality has no boundaries education becomes unworldly and the world becomes noneducational

I will clarify a distinction that I consider fundamental to political ecology. I shall distinguish the environment as commons from the environment as resource. On our ability to make this particular distinction depends not only the construction of a sound theoretical ecology, but also — and more importantly — effective ecological jurisprudence.

Beyond a certain speed, motorized vehicles create remoteness which they alone can shrink. They create distances for all and shrink them for only a few. A new dirt road through the wilderness brings the city within view, but not within reach, of most Brazilian subsistence farmers. The new expressway expands Chicago, but it sucks those who are well-wheeled away from a downtown that decays into a ghetto.