Putting a Price Tag on a Welsh Hillside
April 9, 2008 « Previous Page — Next Page »
Jack Frost visited the Valleys recently and left some grand displays of frosty art on the Cwmdare hillsides!The following photos were snapped in Cwmdare. In the first photo, the Tonglwydfawr Inn. The latter two landscape photos were taken from the northern end of Dare Valley Country Park. Click on the thumbnail for a larger version…
Postscript : How do you put a price tag on a landscape or a Welsh hillside ?
In the eyes of bourgeois industrial capitalism, this Welsh hillside in Cwmdare represents a resource to be exploited. The coal was mined from this area over a period of around one hundred years, exploiting thousands of workers during that period. Now that the coal has gone, the capitalist class see the potential of exploiting the landscape to harness a modicum of wind energy, albeit less energy than that invested in erecting and maintaining the wind turbines in the first place. It’s all very silly of course, but then capitalism is an irrational system.
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