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involuntary park
Involuntary park is a neologism coined by science fiction author and environmentalist Bruce Sterling to describe previously inhabited areas that for environmental, economic, or political reasons have, in Sterling's words, "lost their value for technological instrumentalism" and been allowed to return to an overgrown, feral state.
==Origin of the term==
Discussing involuntary parks in the context of rising sea levels due to global warming, Sterling writes:
They bear some
small resemblance to the twentieth century's national parks, those government-owned areas nervously guarded by
well-indoctrinated forest rangers in formal charge of Our
Natural Heritage©. They are, for instance, very
green, and probably full of wild animals. But the species
mix is no longer natural. They are mostly fast-growing
weeds, a cosmopolitan jungle of kudzu and bamboo, with,
perhaps, many genetically altered species that can deal
with seeping saltwater. Drowned cities that cannot be
demolished for scrap will vanish wholesale into the
unnatural overgrowth.〔Bruce Sterling, ("The World is Becoming Uninsurable, Part 3" ) (Viridian Note 23)〕
While Sterling's original vision of an involuntary park was of places abandoned due to collapse of economy or rising sea-level, the term has come to be used on any land where human inhabitation or use for one reason or other has been stopped, including military exclusion zones, minefields and areas considered dangerous due to pollution.〔Cascio, J. (2005): (The Green Ribbon ), from Worldchanging〕〔For an example of the term used with land-mines, see (Landmines and Involuntary parks )〕
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