2019 New Years Eve Bushfire
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Posted by
Jim
on 25 Sep, 2020 19:57
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Nature can “bounce back” with amazing growth and rapid change. Punctuated equilibrium can be traumatically fascinating to survive through. If the eco-system has the nutrients, sunlight, and rainfall, it can rebound so much so that it can almost be startling.
Years ago, after a brief stint teaching as a low-pay adjunct professor, I decided to return to living some of my family’s heritage. Semi-off the grid in a cabin by the riverside swamp. Experimental life, lots of snakes, bugs, and broken generators; but informative. Then historic flooding zapped the whole region and left me soggy and sh*t out of luck depressed.The aftermath open landscape looked as barren as the moon, but muddy with a tremendous amount of stink and biting flies. Within a year that muddy wasteland popped up with so much new growth it was enlightening. As the plant life came so did a massive expansion of wildlife.
I was lucky to make friends with a guy who was an active conservationists and he worked with politicians, schools, and business groups to preserve the best of what had been, while promoting good human planning after nature had so clearly “wiped the slate clean”. We got huge new public parklands and vast amounts of new trails, biking paths, and river recreation & nature areas. Also got a few greedy and get-rich-quick developers trying to take unfair advantages.
In summary, you have been given an unrequested chance to start your world over while watching nature renewing itself. Lots of work ahead, beware the stupid & greedy, seek intelligent hard working allies. What you do to live on your land now can set a good and lasting example for the future generations. Change will come. That is the only “inevitable”.
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Thanks Jasper.
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