Wherever there is a desolate community rich with wood, ore, oil or rivers with hydropower potential a major company will step in, pick the place clean, spread prosperity for a couple of decades, and then leave with the big bucks.
IMDB offers the following synopsis for the film: "In a desolate community full of drug-addled Marines and rumors of kidnapping, a wild-eyed stoner named Lou wakes up after a wild night of partying with symptoms of a strange illness and recurring visions as she struggles to get a grip on reality while stories of conspiracy spread".
Inevitably that report, with its recommendations for greater government and institutional involvement in the regeneration of desolate urban communities, was also denounced at the time, by Norman Tebbit no less, who saw it as a Marxist document.
The city of Johannesburg, at that time a small, desolate farming community, was transformed into an international mining mecca, and eventually became the epicenter of a gold rush in Africa.
The city of Johannesburg, at that time a small, desolate farming community, was transformed into an… For six months earlier this year, the photographer Elena Dorfman covered the Syrian refugee crisis for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, one of….
The images depict desolate regions and isolated communities of the western United States with a deft touch and a sympathetic eye.
In this desolate and tradition-bound community in the northwest corner of Iraq, at the foot of a mountain range bordering Syria, Ms. Merza's reaction to the ancient custom of arranged marriage is becoming more common.
It creates desolate high streets and alienated communities.
Daunting problems persist: desolate lots still blemish the community; ramshackle buildings remain; there is a dearth of on-the-block retail activity; drug deals still go down.
