Here is a good photo essay of the oil ghost towns of Texas:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-09-26/the-oil-ghost-towns-of-texas
Whether it's mining or drilling for oil, extractive industries always leave two things when they're finished - mountains of waste and empty dwellings.
Modern man does not "improve" the land; we suck out its lifeblood and then abandon it.
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