As authors Robert Todd Perdue and Gregory Pavela explain, the impact that natural resource extraction has on a community is much more closely related to time than originally thought. The case study in West Virginia highlights the extraction of coal as an example of a finite resource being exhausted and the impact that has on a community. While the short term benefits are abundant, they quickly dissipate and leave communities lacking in an sort of economic advantage. Tactics by some attempt to convince these rural communities that their prosperity is like urban environments (fluctuates in the short term but generally increases over the long run), and that the economic benefits will return. However, this is not the case as prosperity is directly correlated with economic opportunity. Once finite natural resources are extracted, the economic opportunity connected to them has been spent and, like the resource, will not replenish. These communities are even worse off because the extraction activities can pollute the environments so much that at a minimum quality of life is reduced but more commonly, public health is reduced as chronic illnesses and death increase. There is a clear pattern of predatory behavior by corporations and governments that exploits these vulnerable communities by exhausting their only economic advantage. These communities are often poor and lacking in alternatives so they accept this fate. Per the data highlighted in this article, market price of surface coal is correlated with per capita income and market cost is correlated with unemployment. This is an example of urban privilege. Cities have the benefit of enjoying a diversity of economic opportunities while rural areas are mono-dependent on a single opportunity. It is decisions and the demand of those in urban areas that destroys the economic mobility of rural.