Thread by @TheRealHoarse

If we were a thoughtful society, this pandemic would have taught us that forced commutes to office parks - which are ecological disasters - is a terrible practice.

We turn green spaces into heat-absorbent pavement farms so people can unnecessarily go to offices they don’t need.

The amount of chemicals we dump on office park landscaping to make its ornamental green spaces look pretty is a sin.

The amount of land we consume with largely unused parking lots, also a sin.

And every large company in the country just learned firsthand, they don’t need them.

One of my secret getaways during the pandemic was an office park that was largely shuttered due to COVID.

Here, at the foot of the property, is a grassy area with no actual purpose. It has no path, no use, no proximity to offices.

It’s just… a grass bowl.

Now, during COVID, it was nice for birdwatching. Attracted hawks and swallows and woodpeckers and warblers and on and on.

It’s under construction now. They’re digging up that drainage chute you see in the foreground.

Meanwhile, there is a natural brook 30 yards to the left.

They literally dug out this grassy U-shaped, useless bowl in what had been a natural downslope draining to a stream.

And now that they’ve fucked up the natural drainage, they’re pouring concrete to shunt the water… away from that stream.

Office parks are disasters.