What is a happening in the Maine woods, home to Rachel Carson, is happening all over the United States.

The perp is not surprising, at all. It is the age we live in.

Woody Guthrie sang about it:

There was a big high wall there that tried to stop me
Sign was painted, said, “Private Property”
But on the back side, it didn’t say nothing
This land was made for you and me

So did Mavin Gaye in his classic, The Ecology.

Oh mercy, mercy me
Ah things ain’t what they used to be
What about this overcrowded land?
How much more abuse from man can she stand?