The problem with “infrastructure”

For nature, building stuff, any stuff, is the issue

Our stuff writ large on the landscape (photo by Paul Greenberg)

When was the last time a building, a road, a car, a bridge made you happy? When was the last time you shut your eyes and listened to the sound of traffic and felt your heart soar? When have you ever taken a whiff of diesel exhaust and said to yourself, “that’s just what I wanted to smell”? And yet we build and build…