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It's not just another devastated landscape of Europe, it's the single most naturally devastated landscape on the entire continent. The National Museum of Icela
by avar 9y ago
It's not just another devastated landscape of Europe, it's the single most naturally devastated landscape on the entire continent.
The National Museum of Iceland in Reykjavík has a permanent exhibition on the subject that I highly recommend. Since colonization a little over a millennium ago most of the topsoil has been washed out to sea, wast swaths of the country that used to be fields or forests are now just bare rock.
Which isn't to say that a devastated landscape can't be pretty.
- arethuza 9y ago"Which isn't to say that a devastated landscape can't be pretty." A bit like the Scottish Highlands - which are treeless largely because of the large numbers of deer maintained to support stalking (deer hunting) and because all their natural predators were killed centuries ago. There are some folks trying to replant the old forests - e.g. https://treesforlife.org.uk/ https://treesforlife.org.uk/
- zeristor 9y agoWolves can help in this case too.
- arethuza 9y agoYeah - there has been a fair amount of debate about reintroducing wolves and lynx to Scotland. Sea eagles have been reintroduced but they aren't quite large enough to eat deer... ;-)
- hammock 9y ago>Sea eagles have been reintroduced but they aren't quite large enough to eat deer... ;-) If they are hungry enough they will! https://youtu.be/k-LL2KCjnV4?t=26 https://youtu.be/k-LL2KCjnV4?t=26 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Adfk_RSndb4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Adfk_RSndb4
- cr1895 9y ago>it's the single most naturally devastated landscape on the entire continent. Isn't half of it technically on another continent?
- avar 9y agoNo, half of it is on the North American continental plate, but those don't determine what constitutes a continent. If they did half of Japan would be in North America.
- Simon_says 9y agoDon't leave us in suspense! What does determine what constitutes a continent?
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- rainbowmverse 9y agoThe same thing that determines what counts as a planet. Flawed humans trying to categorize things so they're easier to think about.