Thinking of those folks who saved their whole lives to live where they can see trees, mountains, and deer from their kitchen windows. “So sorry, bill for the industrial revolution’s come due. Perhaps you could find room with your children. And, yes, you were lied to.”
We're a pretty big state. May take a while. I have lived here all my life, but 3 yrs in VA, and I notice a lot of houses where bushes and fields used to be. A lot.
A lot of those people living in the boonies are retirees, who still use VCRs that blink 12:00. And before you say “fuck ‘em,” recall that it’s the bad guys who habitually say “fuck ‘em.”
I guess I am a weird person. I done seen enough trees, and deer, and mountains to last me. When (ha) I get old, I just wanna see a grocery store, a pharmacy, a doctors's office, and a fire station.
I’m thinking about hanging with old friends and eating these amazing barbecued ribs and watching people drift through Healdsburg’s town square as the light throws shafts through the trees. I’m stopping right there, for now.
Yeah, doesn't work like that. Most of the vegetation in CA is fire- tolerant or even fire - dependent. It wants to burn. Back in the day fires were much more frequent and were even intentionally set by Native Peoples (see below). But because fire was a more regular part of the ecosystem they tended to burn much less hot because less fuel had built up between fires. Since the Smokey Bear era however we've treated all fire as bad and repressed them building up decades of fuels; literal tinder kegs. While some canopy-level fires do end up killing normally fire-resistant trees and changing the forest to a different ecotone, mostly everything comes back and if there's a wet winter and spring, growth is encouraged, which starts the cycle all over again. Climate change will just insure this burn and grow cycle will just be more extreme and like vulnerable homes on our coasts and near waterways that keep getting flooded year after year, structures built in the urban wildlands interface will soon be under constant threat of destruction by infernos.
I wouldn't say lied to, more like cultural ignorance of understanding that these are fire-adapted systems and that we have to understand that in order to live properly in them.
WUI being wilderness-urban interface, yes?
Thinking of those folks who saved their whole lives to live where they can see trees, mountains, and deer from their kitchen windows. “So sorry, bill for the industrial revolution’s come due. Perhaps you could find room with your children. And, yes, you were lied to.”
We're a pretty big state. May take a while. I have lived here all my life, but 3 yrs in VA, and I notice a lot of houses where bushes and fields used to be. A lot.
It’s time to use less power, deferring the need to build more generation.
A lot of those people living in the boonies are retirees, who still use VCRs that blink 12:00. And before you say “fuck ‘em,” recall that it’s the bad guys who habitually say “fuck ‘em.”
I guess I am a weird person. I done seen enough trees, and deer, and mountains to last me. When (ha) I get old, I just wanna see a grocery store, a pharmacy, a doctors's office, and a fire station.
What until you see what we are going to do with phones.
Uh, could you ask them where they get their tape ? I can't find none no more.
I’m thinking about hanging with old friends and eating these amazing barbecued ribs and watching people drift through Healdsburg’s town square as the light throws shafts through the trees. I’m stopping right there, for now.
I could but they all have flip phones with no texting.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
NOBODY WILL USE THEM TO MAKE PHONE CALLS! MOI HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yeah, doesn't work like that. Most of the vegetation in CA is fire- tolerant or even fire - dependent. It wants to burn. Back in the day fires were much more frequent and were even intentionally set by Native Peoples (see below). But because fire was a more regular part of the ecosystem they tended to burn much less hot because less fuel had built up between fires. Since the Smokey Bear era however we've treated all fire as bad and repressed them building up decades of fuels; literal tinder kegs. While some canopy-level fires do end up killing normally fire-resistant trees and changing the forest to a different ecotone, mostly everything comes back and if there's a wet winter and spring, growth is encouraged, which starts the cycle all over again. Climate change will just insure this burn and grow cycle will just be more extreme and like vulnerable homes on our coasts and near waterways that keep getting flooded year after year, structures built in the urban wildlands interface will soon be under constant threat of destruction by infernos.
https://www.wired.com/story...
https://psmag.com/environme...
Hear! Hear! Long overdue!
Dang.
That's why I stopped eating meat.
I wouldn't say lied to, more like cultural ignorance of understanding that these are fire-adapted systems and that we have to understand that in order to live properly in them.