Leituras pela manhã - rewilding the Green Curtain

Fazer retornar ao estado natural primitivo terrenos e territórios devastados por uma razão ou por outra. Neste caso trata-se do percurso onde estava o muro que a guerra fez separar as duas Alemanhas.
Outro dia li um artigo sobre aplicar esta técnica de rewilding às sociedades humanas no sentido de devolver as democracias ao seu estado pré-ultra-liberalismo que as está a matar.


Known as rewilding (in this case Pleistocene rewilding), this increasingly popular approach to conservation is not the same as letting nature take its course. The process is actually carefully managed, at least initially, and aims to restore some semblance of the natural processes—and players—shaping the landscape before humans edged out megafauna, and before patchworks of farms and forest were subsumed by the global economy.

BUND, along with other conservation groups and federal and state ministries, is spending more than $10 million in Bavaria and Thuringia in the coming years to wind the clock back to the final days of the GDR—and much, much further.

The Green Belt has inspired an effort to connect all of the Iron Curtain into a transnational park spanning some 7,000 miles. MARKUS HINTZEN / LAIF / REDUX

As the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall approaches, the Green Belt has taken on yet another dimension. It’s the largest physical remnant of the Cold War left in Germany, and alongside nuclear pollution and the Korean DMZ, one of its most potent artifacts.