Open-pit mines, energy megaprojects, greenhouses and monocultures, logistics hubs, dams, resorts and eucalyptus plantations invade rural territories in the name of profit — exhausting the soil, the water and ways of life. They call it transition. But what we see is exhaustion. They call it the back country. But it is here that what matters most is at stake: land, food, community, future. The countryside is neither a resource nor a reserve. It is living territory. And it is under attack.