"My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there."
Charles F. Kettering
As a result of the global deforestation, overgrazing, intensive, chemicalised agri-factory farming and consequential soil erosion, desertification, salinization, global warming, lack of water and endless over-proliferation of pollution from cities, industries and infrastructure ever more arable and grass land is rendered unproductive and is often abandoned by its owners.
"The automobile has not merely taken over the street, it has dissolved the living tissue of the city ... Gas-filled, noisy and hazardous, our streets have become the most inhumane landscape in the world."
