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July 10, 2010
Our landscapes are in flux. We know that from a history of farmers in Australia having cleared the land of native bush and scrub to both graze sheep and cattle and to grow crops. Often that farmland appears to be natural, even though the landscape has been radically altered by humans to make it a resource to be used for profit.
Stuart Franklin represents a landscape devastated by the hunt for fossil fuels. He says:
Sixty per cent of Greece’s electricity is derived from lignite (brown coal). This involves bulldozing whole landscapes to feed the nearby power station. In Megalopolis I found Greece’s second largest lignite mine. The village of Anthohori in Arcadia was wiped off the map - the church of Santa Maria was all that remained.
Stuart Franklin, Greece from Footprint: Our Landscape in Flux
Landsapes in flux is a cool idea given the hunt for natural resources that s destroys farmland and global warming.
What we have here is a form of ecological thinking that assumes a dialectical nature that tacitly rejects the outmoded notions of balance or harmony in nature.
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