Green Spaces

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Should we be concerned about maintaining small amounts of "green space" in cities and other urban habitats, or would money be better spent in preserving large tracts of relatively undisturbed land in pristine areas and prohibiting those areas for further development?

 

I say kill the development in large tracts of yada, yada, yada, because if you want to live in big city of type "no green allowed", then please do, but take the consequences for doing so.

 

Both, although I don't think "prohibiting development" or throwing money at the problem of disappearing wild spaces is the best approach.

Parks within a city benefit all residents - it is one of the most democratic expenditures any government makes. If the government is going to spend money subsidising grand opera, tobacco farmers, Rothko paintings less than 0.1% of the population enjoys, and strange new meanings of the term "literature" (I will refrain from alluding yet again to the Canadian government's financial sponsorship of a book called "Where did my ass go?" - whoops, too late) it might as well throw in a few trees for the enjoyment of everyone who passes them. Better yet, make them fruit trees with a sign saying "if you're hungry, help yourself, citizen".

Protection of wild spaces is not a job any responsible citizen can delegate to the government. Government "prohibitions" on development are not as effective as approaches such as the Nature Conservancy's outright purchase and protection of the land in question with YOUR donations (you all donate to the Nature Conservancy, right guys? ). More importantly, it's a question of lifestyle choices. Is your refrigerator full of food grown by big, wasteful agribusinesses thousands of miles from your home? Then you have subsidised the destruction of wild spaces to create farms. Every fruit or vegetable you can either grow at home or buy from a local organic farmer protects land that will someday need to be clear-cut, soaked in toxins, and farmed if we don't start taking care of our food needs more locally and responsibly. It's not just food either, but energy, transportation and household goods as well: reducing overall consumption is the best and, ultimately, only way to slow the rate at which wild spaces are developed.

 

It is not a question of money, except for those large corporations that are benefiting from the new administration. Those green spaces BELONG to the American people, which the government is suppose to hold in trust for them. Along with puny donations that the govenment gives to the arts (I guess with strange meanings), much larger "donations" have been made to the airline industry, insurance companies, drug firms, along with large banks and S&Ls. For certain, I would not "delegate" anything that is supposed to be in the public good to our current corporate government.

 

I'm sorry, but the green spaces DO NOT belong to anyone except maybe the native peoples who were here long before Columbus invaded this continent and commited acts of genecide against the native people.

 

I think parks and other green spaces are necessary. We all neeed something green to see every now and then, even if we live in a city, so we won't suffocate in all the concrete.

Not all green spaces need to be big trees and such.

There's this green space, a little park, nearly next door that is getting talked about right now. It is said that it would be made a square of (gods my grammar sucks right now) to bring the old builidings around it, because it has no real use as a park because people just walk thorough it.

I agree, for as a square it'd look better, and woukld work better. It would still be a green space, though, with lawns and bushes and flowers.

I'll stop before I get any less coherent

(the less coherent I get...)

 

It's always risky having green space in the cities.

Because if anyone ever tries to follow Karras's plans, and bring back the rust gas, we could all get wiped out and it would be the Mechanists that rule the planet.

Just watch out for the servants. That's all I have to say.