Maintaining our quality of life in the face of such growth requires that we look at how we affect the landscape, both as a culture and personally through our lifestyle choices.
Marshall McLuhan said,
“There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.”
Before we try to paint a picture of the future, let's take a brief look at the Willamette Valley when settlers began arriving in significant numbers, around 1850.
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