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dreds of years have dramatically shaped the country’s landscape, providing it with
huge swathes of arable land that would otherwise be submerged.
Seen from the distant gaze of Earth’s orbiting satellites, the result is a landscape
unlike any other; one in which polygons recently imposed on the landscape to protect
the country from an imagined human menace bear more than a passing resemblance
to a physical landscape designed to combat a very real and constant natural threat.
—Mishka Henner
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