At the beginning of the book Abbey mentions industrial expansion of dams, power lines, power plants, bridges, railways, pipelines, copper smelters, roads, campgrounds and tourism, mining , cars and machines. Doc compares industrialism to cancer as he rants: “A planetary industrialism growing like a cancer. Growth for growth's sake” (64). Abbey's descriptions of construction machines have always been depicted as a large monster that allows the reader to see the totality of potential size and destruction. The reference to industrialism has always been described as a negative operation. When the group raided the Comb Wash mine, they referred to the machines as “Iron