i recently read ‘waterland’ by graham smith and it had some fun descriptions of land reclamation. biggest point i got from it was that land reclamation is an ongoing process- the waters want to bring their swamp back.
i’m caught between being a proponent of any land development project, and being annoyed that we’re trying to take land back from the water instead of from parking lots. i totally get the utility of land reclamation, especially with climate change, and how ports are a wonderful thing to have! (water transport is so efficient and we need more of it. curse the jones act!)
BUT if you want more land. look at all the easier land to reclaim, that’s being used for basically nothing. again: parking lots. bad for the environment and left unused so much of the time. some places already have efficient use of land, like big cities or whatever, but it feels silly to me to start a war with the waters instead of fixing inefficiencies we created ourselves.
i recently read ‘waterland’ by graham smith and it had some fun descriptions of land reclamation. biggest point i got from it was that land reclamation is an ongoing process- the waters want to bring their swamp back.
i’m caught between being a proponent of any land development project, and being annoyed that we’re trying to take land back from the water instead of from parking lots. i totally get the utility of land reclamation, especially with climate change, and how ports are a wonderful thing to have! (water transport is so efficient and we need more of it. curse the jones act!)
BUT if you want more land. look at all the easier land to reclaim, that’s being used for basically nothing. again: parking lots. bad for the environment and left unused so much of the time. some places already have efficient use of land, like big cities or whatever, but it feels silly to me to start a war with the waters instead of fixing inefficiencies we created ourselves.