Follow up to Camping and Wealth-Thoughts on the book Billionaire Wilderness
Last November I wrote about some observations I made while spending time in our RV at a nearby reservoir and subsequently found a great read related to the topic: Billionaire Wilderness , by Justin Farell. I very much enjoyed the book as it's the first serious study I've seen on the topic and my weekend at the reservoir really cued an interest. I thought Mr. Farrell (Associate Professor at Yale) did a great job of framing the complexity of the environment and categorizing the issues at play. I was left to think about what is to be done and whom, however, on which topics Mr. Farrell refrained from elaborating on too deeply. The author's unique ability to have candid discussions with ultra-wealthy residents of Jackson Hole, Wyoming allows him to assert that, "nature takes on unique power for the ultra-wealthy," and leads them to, "leverage nature to climb even higher," and to, "use nature and rural people as a vehicle for personal transformation, c...