Everyone knows the saying: “If a tree falls in the woods and nobody hears it, does it make a sound?”
Here’s another version: “If a wilderness in the city gets destroyed and nobody hears about it, does it matter?”
In a city with a lack of green space, wilderness, and biodiversity such as New York City; it not only matters, but it is incredibly important that we preserve what little pockets of nature remain.
The NYT yesterday ran an op/ed piece about just such a threatened wilderness — the historic Ridgewood Reservoir on the Brooklyn-Queens border.
The article was co-authored by NYC comptroller William C. Thompson Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — a lawyer for the environmental organization Riverkeeper (which you may know from their work restoring the Hudson River and in advocating for the clean-up of the Newtown Creek/Greenpoint oil disaster).
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