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Boston Landfills

October 18, 2015
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By Paul Homewood  

    

Thanks to mitchel44 for sending me this animation from the excellent Maximising Progress website. It shows how Boston has been transformed by landfills since it was a swamp in the 19thC.                 

 

   

 

Boston Landfills ~ Timelapse Anime Map…

Nice anime map of The Sequence of Landfill Projects in Boston…

  

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http://www.maximizingprogress.org/2010/12/boston-landfills-timelapse-anime-map.html

 

Apparently Boston is now under threat of going under water.

from → Climate Change
3 Comments
  1. Bloke down the pub permalink
    October 19, 2015 9:11 am

    Hardly surprising then that relative sea-level change is an issue there.

  2. NeilC permalink
    October 19, 2015 10:23 am

    Perhaps the Boston authorities should contact the Hague for help, the Dutch seem quite good at keeping water from reclaimed land.

  3. botanyjrg permalink
    October 19, 2015 11:57 am

    If you are making “new land,” water is being displaced. Therefore, are you not adding, in a small way, to the rise of the oceans? How many mussels, oysters and clams were killed in the procedures? Where ARE the environmentalists?

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