The social and natural worlds—the attitudes we adopt towards them and the multiple languages we use to describe them—change unceasingly. Sometimes, these transformations happen in a dramatic fashion: think of what is evoked by the names “Hiroshima,” “Chernobyl,” “Love Canal,” “Exxon Valdez,” “Deepwater Horizon” or “Fukushima.” Other times, these processes are slower and the changes resulting from them are so gradual that they no longer arouse amazement or shock. Faced with those environmental transformations that occur in the name of “progress” and that make the landscapes inhospitable, our sense of place is shaken and transformed. In addition, our very capacity for imagination becomes disarmed.