Shallow roots provide technocrats and corporate managers
with greater psychological freedom to glide along the surfaces of the increasingly global
system of interlocking corporations, NGOs, philanthropies, and international institutions.
The original proposal of a 15 inch cap of borrow soil,
with agricultural limestone and a bactericide below and revegetation by
shallow -
rooting plants was determined to be «inadequate,... at the least, an additional layer must be added that will act as a barrier for water, plant
roots systems and burrowing animals».20 In response Cyprus - Amax proposed, in January 1995, a typical cap section which added a 30 - mil PVC liner overlaid by a geoweb drainage mat
with a fabric cover below the 15 inch soil cap.