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I don't know how to explain to you how immensely saddened I feel by the apartments being built on the food soil above my house, or how anxious I feel every time I hear a "boom" and the house shivers from their work knowing I live on red-zoned quick clay. I don't know how to explain that much of the environment I've spent 25 years identifying with is being torn up and is gonna lay dark and muddy this spring instead of letting me frequently walk by seeing the grass bud and sprout, or to watch the cows being released around mid-summer. I don't know how to explain the history that I have to this place, and how they are attached to my memories and lives of my grandparents, my parents and myself.

I didn't realize how much my perception of the world, and how I related to it has changed over the last years. How much I've come to actively knowledge it, and valuing it and learning about it and how I interact with it. Every time I pick up something to read for school, it is a coin. it either intensifies my appreciation and understanding of the land I live on or increases my eco-anxiety for it.

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I could argue myself out of these feelings, be reasonable enough to realize I cannot go around believing development doesn't happen at a price, that if I want development, you cannot say "not in my backyard." And yet I have to wonder where sustainability got into here. Why it so rarely wins out. Why we're building out so much of our spare food soil, knowing we are a country of rocky mountains. Why the local community's wishes weren't valued? And even if it isn't an injustice, it urges you to keep your eyes open, to recognize global issues, but to act local, where the options to be heard is much closer to the tips of your toes and still flies straight over your head. And still you know you don't have any say in land that does not legally belong to you or that you cannot economically affect.

so yeah, I'll just mourn this in my spare time. as one does.
now is not spare time. i got 3 assignments to finish.

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they are building a highway plowing it through one of the only nature reserves left in my hometown, just destroying land where wild deer and rabbits run through, several lakes and an island that is inhabited by a few hundred people who have all vehemently protested this highway. EVERYONE in the town is against it, but the LEFT WING mayor still went ahead with the motion and it's happening within the next 5 years. literally ruining the area where my mum lives with highway noise, removal of nature and a fucking eyesore that does nothing to improve "the car problem" (literally every single statistic on it proves that improving the tunnels going through the fjord would be a much larger help dealing with traffic jams than this THIRD highway)

so i get you

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I know the feeling, I was so upset with everyhting they did around my parents house. It used to be way more quiet and not a lot of houses....you basically knew everyone who lived there at least somehow.
Now there are way more people living, the nature isn't the same...basically a lot of the beautiful forest I spent my chilshood in was taken away. It was a shock at first,
But you really do get used to the new things happening. Is it still sad? Yes, but still beautiful place to live that more people can now experience.

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Rouya wrote:
they are building a highway plowing it through one of the only nature reserves left in my hometown, just destroying land where wild deer and rabbits run through, several lakes and an island that is inhabited by a few hundred people who have all vehemently protested this highway. EVERYONE in the town is against it, but the LEFT WING mayor still went ahead with the motion and it's happening within the next 5 years. literally ruining the area where my mum lives with highway noise, removal of nature and a fucking eyesore that does nothing to improve "the car problem" (literally every single statistic on it proves that improving the tunnels going through the fjord would be a much larger help dealing with traffic jams than this THIRD highway)

so i get you

wtf grr

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I know the feeling, I was so upset with everyhting they did around my parents house. It used to be way more quiet and not a lot of houses....you basically knew everyone who lived there at least somehow.
Now there are way more people living, the nature isn't the same...basically a lot of the beautiful forest I spent my chilshood in was taken away. It was a shock at first,
But you really do get used to the new things happening. Is it still sad? Yes, but still beautiful place to live that more people can now experience.

hmm,
idk like the calm and small but not so small vibe of this place is really a lot of its charm. the farm soil they are building on now is one of the two larger green patches we have here, the other being the soccer field. these are literally the only two green fields I consider of importance in this area (one is fake). they are for sure the major ones and the rest is really just houses and schools\kindergardens and a handful of stores. like this is literally the last open place of any size. it's making me feel very confined to think about how it will just be houses and people there now where it has been open space. following what parents with children in school and kindergarten now, we don't have the capacity to take over 100++ new families in if they have kids either. and like idk what they are thinking to do about parking spaces either bc they will probably have to build parking under the houses i assume? it's gonna be trafficky for sure.