In the 1920s, farmers succeeded in conquering The Great Prairie Plains of the Midwest. The plains were then transformed into the “amber waves of grain” we know today. However, this transformation came with a heavy price.
In fact, the agricultural triumph over The Plains was the tipping point that changed a typical La Nina-type drought cycle [...]
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In the 1930s and 1940s people and businesses did not pay a lot of attention to what happened to toxic chemicals produced during industrial processes. While there have long been regulations for the handling of these dangerous chemicals, enforcement of these laws was virtually nonexistent or haphazard at best. Most people associate New England with vast, thick, beautiful forests. But less than 150 years ago, much of the New England countryside had been laid waste by settlers in need of lumber for homes and businesses, and open fields for agriculture and livestock. The McCormick and Baxter Creosoting Company Superfund Site is an incredible example of derelict urban space. It is a postapocalyptic wasteland of the highest order. It is an abandoned indistrial zone of more than 50 acres that has been declared a Superfund clean-up site because of creosote and heavy metal pollution. Both projects are part of a broader initiative to “bring back†the L.A. River and remake the surrounding neighborhoods. |
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