Reposted a slightly-edited and improved version of my 2007 essay "Milespires and the Rebirth of the Environment," onto Fantastic Worlds at http://fantasticworlds-jordan179.blogspot.com/2011/03/milespires-and-rebirth-of-environment.html

Hope you all like it! :)

Inspired by a post of maskedretriever

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We are in the midst of the Sixth Great Mass Extinction. We are wiping out the other species on Earth at a rate far greater than the ecosphere's rate of natural replacement through evolution and speciation, and in doing so we are destroying genetic diversity. The horror and folly of this is extreme: Nature has been ( Read more... )

Here's the way I envision the residential patterns of about 100-200 years hence.

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