Connecting Past and Present – Ted Turner & Jane Jacobs
January 28, 2023 By: Richard Scott
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/travel/article-ted-turner-reserves/
This Ted Turner article gave me more hope and understanding of the word ‘conservation’, which was flipped upside down by Steinberg, Pinchot, and Nash in Topic 1, Unit 3. Turner juxtaposes Pinchot’s great fact that conservation equates to development. As Nash reported: it was humans over nature in early 20th century. But we now know it should be humans with nature, and Turner’s properties give us hope.
In Gideon Forman’s opinion piece, it follows on with the theme of humans with nature, instead of humans using nature for their own means. The awakened people protesting to halt an expressway is akin to Hetch Hetchy’s fight over the dam. Thank God they won in Toronto, and urbanites hadn’t completely killed the organic city. It came down to a point in Bell’s article in Topic 2, Unit 3: what’s the best use of an area for the benefit of present and future generations. Forman shows how some preservation of nature is key to urban development.
Hi Richard,
Interesting post. The first article also gave me a deeper understanding of the definition of the word ‘conservation’. However, the second article regarding the Greenbelt really resinated with me as a resident of Toronto. The proposed highway 413 would be detrimental to our green space, of which there is already so little.