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A boom-and-bust cycle is happening today, this time with fossil fuels. Many have invested in those industries with the same mindset miners had—that the prosperity from investing in oil and gas is permanent. Fossil fuels haven’t hit the bust part of the cycle quite yet, from a monetary and political perspective at least, but they’re much more devastating than their mining predecessors. Not just because they will run out, like any nonrenewable resource, but also because the carbon dioxide and greenhouse gases they emit into the air will translate to sea-level rise, mass extinction, droughts, destructive storms, and perhaps even the end of society as we know it.

A new kind of migration has influenced Utah in recent decades, one composed of skiers, snowboarders, and outdoor enthusiasts instead of miners. It’s a migration that many of my friends are part of, that Colin is a part of. They may be drawn to these locations for recreation rather than extraction, but they have similar mindsets to the miners: this prosperity is permanent.