[HN Gopher] Rewilding the planet: An archipelago constructed of ...
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       Rewilding the planet: An archipelago constructed of sand is
       bringing new life
        
       Author : cpeterso
       Score  : 69 points
       Date   : 2023-06-17 07:10 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | andsoitis wrote:
       | > rewilding
       | 
       | Highly highly recommend watching Wild Life:
       | https://films.nationalgeographic.com/wild-life
       | 
       | From filmmakers Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin.
       | 
       |  _After falling in love in mid-life, Kris and the outdoorsman and
       | entrepreneur Doug Tompkins left behind the world of the massively
       | successful outdoor brands they 'd helped pioneer -- Patagonia,
       | The North Face, and Esprit -- and turned their attention to a
       | visionary effort to create National Parks throughout Chile and
       | Argentina. WILD LIFE chronicles the highs and lows of their
       | journey to effect the largest private land donation in history._
        
         | HeWhoLurksLate wrote:
         | Woah, those are the same group? That's incredible
        
       | eterps wrote:
       | I visited this island cluster last summer, very impressive. It
       | felt like a tranquil oasis.
        
       | giorgioz wrote:
       | Physical Properties of Soil:
       | https://www.soils4teachers.org/physical-properties/#:~:text=....
        
       | ilamont wrote:
       | They did something like this with Spectacle Island in Boston
       | Harbor. Not a completely new island, but greatly expanded from
       | its 20th century footprint as a glue factory and trash dump,
       | thanks to landfill from the Big Dig:
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       |  _From 1935 to 1959, Spectacle Island became the city's dump,
       | bringing 350 tons of waste to the island daily.9 In this time,
       | the island grew by almost 36-acres.10 The dump on Spectacle
       | Island sat exposed, with trash seeping into the harbor, until
       | 1992 when the "Big Dig" began in Boston. The Central Artery
       | /Tunnel Project brought sediment to Spectacle Island to cap off
       | the landfill and turn the island from an abandoned garbage dump
       | to a park._
       | 
       | https://www.nps.gov/places/spectacle-island.htm
        
       | baq wrote:
       | Got Red Mars vibes from this for some reason. Very interesting.
        
       | c54 wrote:
       | There's a handful of efforts like this which I find really
       | exciting and hopeful. It's clear we can do damage to the
       | environment but I think it's important to try to learn and take
       | positive restorative steps given our position of stewardship of
       | the planet. I've heard this kind of effort be called
       | "ecomodernist" as it's a step after the idea that all human
       | intervention is only destructive and the best option is to do
       | nothing.
       | 
       | Pleistocene park in siberia https://pleistocenepark.ru/
       | 
       | American Prarie plains rewilding in Montana
       | https://americanprairie.org/
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       | Ecomodernist manifesto http://www.ecomodernism.org/
        
       | meristohm wrote:
       | Regarding rewilding, I'm all for it, just not in the E. O.
       | Wilson's racist half-earth way. Humans are and can continue to be
       | part of nature. There might be room for bringing back some of the
       | mega-fauna that we killed off around the world, though, with
       | preserves and parks.
        
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