Posted: Mar 11, 2016 11:47 pm
I suggest that one particular thing needs to be spelled out in this thread:
"Land Reclamation" is a POLITICAL or a SALES designation, not a scientific one.
That is the starting point, if you want a dispassionate discussion, because each so-called land reclamation project has to be addressed individually, to decide what is lost, what is gained, and whether it's desirable, and to whom.
Land isn't "reclaimed," in a factual sense, unless it gets left behind in a pub, and someone shows up (hopefully sober) the next day, and proves that they own it. All other instances of so-called "land reclamation" are better described as "land/water/marsh/whatever re-purposing," at most. People who are pushing for it like to give it a more positive sounding name, in hopes that they will be half way to getting what they want, simply by limiting the discussion to why anyone should EVER be prevented from "reclaiming" something.
"Land Reclamation" is a POLITICAL or a SALES designation, not a scientific one.
That is the starting point, if you want a dispassionate discussion, because each so-called land reclamation project has to be addressed individually, to decide what is lost, what is gained, and whether it's desirable, and to whom.
Land isn't "reclaimed," in a factual sense, unless it gets left behind in a pub, and someone shows up (hopefully sober) the next day, and proves that they own it. All other instances of so-called "land reclamation" are better described as "land/water/marsh/whatever re-purposing," at most. People who are pushing for it like to give it a more positive sounding name, in hopes that they will be half way to getting what they want, simply by limiting the discussion to why anyone should EVER be prevented from "reclaiming" something.