Drawing a green line down the Cold War's European frontier is the aim of Green Belt Initiative.
Listen to one commentator brood on the old military haunting morphing through time:
the initiative aims to thicken and de-civilize that political line, so that the ghostly trace of a militarized landscape becomes a feral and wild preserve, land sacrificed willingly not to Ares but to biodiversity. The line would crawl through “old-growth boreal forests” at the Finno-Russian border, across the western margin of the east Eurasian taiga, and past “airfields, missile bases, and [military] training sites” ...
(via Warren Ellis)
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