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Camino reading

Chapter 2 and 3 was about the no man’s land in Cyprus and abandoned farmland in Estonia. With Cyprus showing how abandoned strips of land in between occupied spaces recovers to blossom in into nature zones. In Estonia, along with further examples, possibilities for carbon sequestration are shown in large scale abandoned farmland.

At first, chapter 1 felt rather passive with nature descriptions I didn’t fully follow, but it ended up being an insightful account of how brownfield sites and places left behind get reclaimed by nature. Comparisons of similar places added to the point Flyn was making, that nature reinvents itself (not regenerates), and that we should appreciate this form of natural art and beauty rather than force it.