Real cool pictures of nature - Everything seems so clear from the air, where the details don't get in the way. At 10,000 meters high we can see the results of our work all over the floor that opens under us, as if the landscape were our reflection in the mirror. As we know, landscapes do not lie; are the expression of everything we do here on Earth.
Some roads run parallel to rivers and valleys: it doesn't
take much ingenuity in this case. Other roads converge on settlements, as if
they were cow paths leading to the water reservoir, or they can follow the
footsteps of deer and other animal paths or topographical contours, and soon
resemble the organic majesty of a spider web. Imagine the city where El Greco
(1541–1614), settled and worked, Toledo, Spain, seen from the air: perfection
in organic urban form.
The old American meadow, virgin until two centuries ago, now
shows the grids of large farms that leave no room for any vegetation other than
crops, and a fine line of trees along riverbanks and stream banks, as if it
were the symbolic tithing of nature and wildlife. And the central pivot circles
of 16 hectares of maize, soybeans or alfalfa (the trifecta of industrial
agriculture) look as if someone has thrown, in perfect symmetry, huge coins on
the ground. As crop pavements that extend to the horizon, even from one state
to another, all this human work is the result of a federal agricultural policy
in complete imbalance with nature. No wonder then that butterflies and
countless other creatures and plants have to fight these landscapes so out of
all logic.
New natural gas extraction sites have appeared so sudden and
widespread, permeating much of the Great Prairies and the interior of Western
North America, as if huge steroid-fed prairie dogs had excavated these large
areas of land. It's like reliving Gulliver's Travels. Meanwhile, open pit mines
generate immense depressions on the ground as if meteors from outer space had
collided there. The spectacular reddish, red, golden and sandy hues of these
mines contrast strongly with the surrounding terrain, as if they were also
engraved works of art, poor attempts to recreate an underground Roman Coliseum
or a miniature Colorado Grand Canyon. At the same time, new bright white wind
turbines, some with a wingspan of 126 meters and 90 meters high, appear as if a
giant surgeon had applied stitches of different lengths and shapes to the
ground and sea, even though countless birds die from impact.
Towns and cities are concentrated along the waterfront
coast, with few defenses to protect communities from storm surges that are
likely to be at least 90 centimeters higher in a century than they are now.
This same risk applies to towns and cities along rivers, whether large flowing
or small, which of course wish to go down and up like the tide, overflowing
and, from time to time, watering the streets. Even world-class cities, such as
Chicago, Sydney, Tokyo, or Toronto, viewed from the air look like LEGO
constructions, and from the ground, barcodes, where cars and trucks run like
busy little ants, and trains glide like snakes through the cement.
The deserts, long advanced wastes of biblical desolation,
are now specked with oasis in the form of new towns, cities and resorts, with
their houses nestled among sea blue pools, as if these were a requirement of
entry to the neighborhood. Gleaming lakes are absorbed by giant reservoirs, and
water evaporates into dry, cloudless skies. A garden puzzle of an unlikely
green stands out among extensive golf courses of an even more absurdly lush
green. You might think that a new art school called "landscape
cubism" would have made crooked drawings on the ground.
However, there are also exceptional extensions of UN
developed soil. Roads such as Appalachian, Continental, Ice Age, Grande Redone,
Greater Patagonia, Natchez, Pacific Massif, The Ararat and Tokai provide the
opportunity to deli for long distances into the hearts and souls of their
respective countries. There are forests that cover thousands and thousands of
square kilometers, ale relieving a planet in urgent need of new lungs to
process rising levels of carbon dioxide (CO2), real cool pictures of nature.
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