Gripping 6000 words on the fate of California from @lizweil. The more we normalize how rapid our transition is the better. As @steffen has been explaining for a long time.
nytimes.com/2022/01/03/mag… Some extra thoughts...
nytimes.com/2022/01/03/mag… Some extra thoughts...
@lizweil @steffen Because the legacy Mediterranean climate that indigenous people once safely managed is also disappearing, an equilibrium produced by better fire policy and careful rebuilding may not last for long. A parallel on the East Coast is coastlines.
In the meantime, the 'new norm' in high demand places is easily maladaptive...
https://twitter.com/cityatlas/status/1123246995630710785?s=20
I retweet @UKFIRES with regularity to try to put the focus on what can get done in the next 10 years that will make the gap less wide in 15 years. That's more or less the choice of being in control vs. being out of control, 20 yrs from now. Time goes fast.
repository.cam.ac.uk/bitstream/hand…
repository.cam.ac.uk/bitstream/hand…
As an example of seeing 30 years flash by, this was 30 years ago. A lot of people thought they had plans then, too.
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