It’s fascinating to watch what happens when someone suggests we adapt to climate change “instead of” fighting it, especially when that person is one of this beleaguered globe’s Reigning People of Letters.
The RPOL in this case is Corrections author Jonathan Franzen, whose essay “What If We Stopped Pretending” ….
Shouldn’t all the headlines look like that? The people of Ethiopia planted 353 million trees in 12 hours on July 29. The kind of story that makes you feel like there isn’t a problem in the world that can’t be solved… doesn’t it.
Forget, for a moment, the heartbreaking fires raging from Bolivia to Siberia, forget this month being on track to become the hottest July in recorded history — perhaps the hottest month in recorded history. Instead, turn your eyes again toward a country whose peace deal with neighboring Eritrea is still fresh in the world’s mind. Ethiopia is restoring its lost forests.
Up for a Friday-night movie? Up for a Friday-night movie?
Germany’s DW Documentary presents a concise half-feature on the “climate exodus” from the Sahel Zone in Central Africa, Indonesia, and the Russian Tundra: a primer on climate migration in case you need motivation.
Looking back at the “fire season” which only now seems to have “ended,” I’m remembering a trip I took out to Las Virgines deep in the San Fernando Valley near Calabasas late last year, while the Woolsey Fire was still raging in all directions. Looking around, the oaks were the obvious subject of the story of burned hillsides.
As I wrote a journalist friend at the time, on many hillsides: “the oaks sit alone in a newly desolate landscape. Their survival seems unlikely, but what few humans — even local ones — seem to know is that if healthy, the California live oak is resilient to fire….
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