![]() Ian McHarg opened a new way for us to see the world. …We hope for the best, but it would be sanguine to expect anything less than disaster. But the status quo ante is being reconstituted without direction or constraint. ![]() ![]() The record of cause and effect constitutes the common knowledge of natural scientists. About hurricanes and their threat to coastal development, McHarg wrote four decades ago, The evidence is there to be read. A chapter of his seminal book with that title was devoted to the topic, Sea and Survival. After all, McHarg had long preached that we should design with nature. The effects of the tsunami and the hurricane would not have surprised him. We had the opportunity to escape the specter of nuclear war-a threat that, sadly, has returned. He thought we could live in a more peaceful world. ![]() His optimism grew after the end of the Cold War. I believe the September 11 events would have surprised him the most. Ian McHarg died in March 2001, before the September 11 terrorist attacks, before the Indian Ocean tsunami of December 2004, and before Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast in August 2005. ![]()
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