Even in Iceland, beauty is elusive. These hot springs and sulfur vents near Myvatn were mined by the Danes for sulfur. They are now a tourist site.
They are, in fact, mine tailings. Only a tiny fraction of the sulfur remains. 
It’s still beautiful, though.
Nature, though, it is not. The Icelanders know this. You should know it too.
This is politics writ large.
