The more I think of it, the more I think The Bear does tell us something about the emotional root of Nymbyism.
You don’t want to see the bear get killed, certainly not by Boon, you don’t want to see the wilderness get logged. In some sense, you don’t want “us” to win….
For we are the accursed descendants of Old Carothers; so what we ought to do is repudiate ourselves and our birthright and, along with that, any kind of economic or industrial growth.
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