“Nature is brutal. Predators eat their prey while they are alive and screaming. Our modern sensibilities have a hard time acknowledging this.”
In what is not a surprise to anyone that is plugged into traditional forest conservation, California’s forest management system is a failure. The scapegoat of “climate change” is merely a scratch at the itch that is their flawed forest management “solutions.” An article in Science Magazine goes to show the touchy-feely, left-wing approach to environmentalism is not the solution. I definitely suggest you check it out at https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adi4123
I’m a born and raised rural Mainer that is a Granite State transplant, probably not a huge surprise to anyone familiar with my socio-political tendencies. Modern approaches to forest management are centered around the “people will only make it worse” mentality, leading many to think that humans being involved is the cause of all woes.
Nature is brutal. Predators eat their prey while they are alive and screaming. Our modern sensibilities have a hard time acknowledging this. In a failure to our current public school system, I had to remind my son that “yes, we should take care of the earth, but it is also there for us to exist off of.” Trees do grow back from the seeds of their branches and the fertilization from the burning of their trunks.
Environmentalists love stating how native cultures have the solutions to our modern failures, but they often overlook that they took part in intentional burning of lands for personal gain and land conservation. This realistic view of the world is something left-wing activists just do not know how to come to terms with, the extreme of which are more prone to glueing their hands to paintings than actually doing something scientifically. Read more about “Indigenous Fire Practices Shape our Land” on the National Park Service website, https://www.nps.gov/subjects/fire/indigenous-fire-practices-shape-our-land.htm
I’m not going to say that the traditions of ancient traditions are the sole path forward, but our current system of not touching the trees is not working. Climate change is real and instead of sanctification of nature, we should come up with real solutions to prevent catastrophic destruction. Responsible forest management needs to come back to the norm or we can expect more destruction that we cannot control.
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