tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1575603731696062553.post5654629733056674677..comments2024-01-26T17:20:23.015-06:00Comments on The Great Change: WetikoAlbert Bateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17627996921976501534noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1575603731696062553.post-65983803709663843402017-03-19T11:25:00.262-05:002017-03-19T11:25:00.262-05:00Rescuing Angelinos, or any megalopolis inhabitants...<i>Rescuing Angelinos, or any megalopolis inhabitants (the Chinese included) from their almost certain fate will be a serious challenge</i><br /><br />Why even bother to try? A more important challenge will be figuring out how to protect people already living well outside a megalopolis (who might have at least a little chance of survival) from the collateral damage caused by the death throes of civilization. Joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01251330546889158364noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1575603731696062553.post-60808772226516638782017-03-19T10:06:55.344-05:002017-03-19T10:06:55.344-05:00working to improve the fate of 'angelinos'...working to improve the fate of 'angelinos' anywhere in the world is a thankless task, not the reason for its undertaking. Ian Grahamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02975374352244687491noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1575603731696062553.post-46164669242823748232017-03-19T08:46:59.401-05:002017-03-19T08:46:59.401-05:00Albert
I learned a week ago that Earthhaven Ecovil...Albert<br />I learned a week ago that Earthhaven Ecovillage was threatened by the same fires that burned Gatlinburg, TN as well as lots of other forest lands across the Southeastern US. (Earthhaven, along with The Farm, were 2 positive examples you cited in terms of ecovillages sequestering carbon because both had extensive forests) I remembered reading a recent story about someone who was caught up in a California wildfire, and she was talking about how the current crop of wildfires would never have happened under the management practices of the native Americans. She referred to M. Kat Anderson’s book Tending the Wild. I also remembered having read Bill Gammage’s book on Australia…The Biggest Estate on Earth. <br /><br />An essential feature of both the California and Australian management practices was fire. In California, Anderson argues that fire increased the harvest of acorns, a major source of food. In Australia, Gammage builds a case for increased productivity of the regularly burned land.<br /><br />I was recently in the national forests on the headwaters of the Gila river in New Mexico. There was a forest service sign saying that, 500 years ago, you would not have seen any tall trees due to periodic fires.<br /><br />Before Columbus, long-leaf pine forests, which are fire adapted, stretched from Virginia to Texas. With climate change probably increasing the chance of more fires like the summer of 2016, do you think reforestation efforts should aim at the more ‘savannah like’ or the ‘dense forest’ model? If planting trees to sequester carbon is a foundational part of what we need to do, it seems we need to first establish what sort of forest or savannah we are trying to grow.<br /><br />It seems doubtful to me that our declining society would be successful in suppressing fire. Is it time to learn to live with it?<br /><br />Don StewartDon Stewarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05449201744675390686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1575603731696062553.post-42073148326797671392017-03-19T07:05:06.765-05:002017-03-19T07:05:06.765-05:00Los Angelinos then are no different than just abou...Los Angelinos then are no different than just about everybody I know, which bodes ill for many places other than L.A.Robert Gilletthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14799065630702219168noreply@blogger.com