Although mining is an important industry, the toxic runoffs from the metals that include copper, palladium, platinum, zinc. Tourism, recreation, retirement living and health care represent the industries that are in the rise in Montana. The fur trade that once thrived is gone mining and logging and agriculture is on the decline. Hunting and fishing is a recreational pursuit in modern Montana. Montana’s suffering from environmental damage is far less than that experienced in large urban areas.Įnvironmental disadvantages limit Montana from growing crops and raising livestock. In this story, made popular by geographer Jared Diamond’s bestselling book Collapse, the Indigenous people of the island, the Rapanui, so destroyed their environment that, by around 1600, their society fell into a downward spiral of warfare, cannibalism, and population decline. By understanding what communities in Montana are dealing with more understanding can be gleaned about societies in the past which suffered from environmental damage. Montana is a modern representation of a small society with a fragile environment likes those in the past which include Polynesian, Anasazi, Maya, Greenland Norse among others.
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