Those tensions go all the way back to the Crusades - when Christian armies invaded the Holy Land.
VOA: standard.2010.03.18
Stewart Brand, one of the founders of the back-to-the-land movement, has been arguing fiercely that environmentalists need to drop their anti-GM stance.
But salt harvesting was rescued by an unlikely savior--a back-to-the-land movement in the late 1980s that swept the French intelligentsia, who found it fashionable to spend their weekends raking and skimming.