"Unchecked development remains a priority in the famously un-zoned city, creating short-term economic gains for some, but long term flood risk for everyone."
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China has long depended on the U.S. breadbasket, importing up to $26 billion in U.S. agricultural products yearly. But increasingly, Chinese investors aren’t just buying from farms abroad. They’re buying the farms. 
Jessica Martel's curator insight,
September 5, 2018 3:31 PM
"While China still ranks far behind the United States in foreign agricultural investments, its interest in farms abroad has prompted concerns about putting too much of America’s food supply in foreign hands."
Exporting goods is great for the US economy. We make money off of the goods that other countries are not able to get locally. What I don't understand is why would we literally sell our ability to export and better our economy? Sure, the Chinese owners of the farms that are on american soil will have to pay taxes on their land; in my eyes this is the only profit that america is able to make off of the farm.This is crazy to me and doesn't make sense. China already imports so many things to the US that we pay them for. NOW we are giving them our food and money.After the initial buy of the land.... its as good as dead to america. What next? Do we pay China for the goods they produced on our land. This is a great example of both good and bad globalization. This benefits China immensely they get to use other land they don't have access too.The US looses land,food and money. |
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Plan your next big hike with this map of America's most-loved long trails. Via Mike Busarello's Digital Storybooks
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Houston's development boom and reduction of wetlands leave region prone to more severe flooding. Here is a great map of the change in impervious surfaces in the region from 1940 to 2017--when you combine that with record-breaking rainfall the results are catastrophic. But a local understanding of place is critical and this viral post--Things non-Houstonians Need to Understand--is pretty good.
Tags: physical, fluvial, water, coastal, urban, planning, transportation, architecture.
Un dossier sur les inondations à Houston (en anglais). La présentation est très originale.