The core reason rural landscapes are despoiled is cities. From clear cut forests to mono-crop industrial agriculture, its to feed the cities.
Enlightenment
Society is made up six concentric circles or rings all getting smaller and more enlightened as one moves inward. This is another way to look at enlightening.
First and larger than all of the other rings of society combined are TV watching zombies. They will live and die oblivious to the real world around them.
