Sacrifice zones are geographic: extraction, blinking grids, land treated as empty because the obligation went unclaimed. Housekeeping is tending, not a new firm.
They are also human. A quiet, non-malicious pressure recodes people as unneeded. The group that pressure reaches last and largest is the merely average. If the floor only shelters the vivid kid in the photograph, it is not a floor.
Park versus plantation is too sharp to be true. Parks have sometimes protected ecosystems while displacing people, restricting customary use, or converting inhabited land into administratively imagined wilderness. The deeper distinction is consent versus imposed administration; stewardship versus ownership; return versus extraction; local standing versus picturesque preservation; removable custody versus permanent control.
Machine illegibility never establishes vacancy. “No Man’s Land” is a disputed phrase here. Unclaimed responsibility zone is often more accurate: what is unclaimed is the obligation, not necessarily the land.