Wild Re*Solve
Sunset at Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge/©USFWS:Steve Hillebrand
We are living into a time of chronic natural disasters . . . disasters at least from a human point of view.
It's doubtful whether the Earth processes we judge as "good" or "bad" weather are anything other than forces of nature from which our ancestors, perhaps intelligently, cowered or considered Acts of God, and we mere mortals recognized we were thus in great trouble.
Despite what scientists and other fellow residents of Earth tell us, many of us here in the U.S can't see it. We can't smell it. We don't yet taste it or hear it in our conditioned habitats or bubbles of environmental egocentricity. The last two years of observed "weather extremes" might be influencing public opinion, but Nature is way ahead of us on this curve.
Yet across the Earth — this planet that is our only home — and even in your own backyard, wildlife feel it. Perhaps they even smell and taste it; certainly they sense it: Your and my hyper-local habitat, from backyard to bio-region, is already responding to our Earth's climate changing.
And billions of people see it happening before their eyes every day now and are experiencing unprecedented challenges and changes in daily life due to a "new normal", resulting in mass migrations, environmental refugees, a loss of cultural and familial continuity. Bad weather, repeated super-storms, whatever you want to call it, the weather we can't do anything about is demanding our attention from emergency responses to regional "disaster" planning, and on to long-term strategic consideration for our needed resources of clean water, fertile soils, and energy supply and grid.
The only thing "natural" about this disaster that is our climate changing around is, however, is that it is happening to Nature and within Nature, meaning the sum of the global processes that is our habitat which sustains us — all of us — from the whale to the earthworm to the baby in your arms. It is Nature in which we, too, live after all, despite our myth of Urban lives.
That much of this climate change is the result of human-made industrial-based pollution either causing the warming of our planet's habitat or is mega-multiplying a natural warming cycle of Earth perhaps makes what we witness each day in the climate extremes of heat, storms, sea rise and wildlife eradication combine to make it the first man-made 'natural disaster' in Earth's history.
Wild Re*Solve will cover the following areas, with a focus on exploring solutions-based journalism rather than just the bad news and be available by subscription at Substack for the time being.
Notes from the Field;
A photo installation entitled Derniere Régard/Last Looks
Bits of scientific news;
Human consequences, climate and security refugees;
Habitat Consequences, wildlife and wilderness;
Strategic Environmental Security;
And most importantly:
Ideas for hyper-local response, planning, the small actions communities can undertake,
and solutions, solutions, solutions, at the micro to regional to national and international scale.
Solutions you, I -- and we, together -- can undertake now to help our whole world.
If you have an image, a scientific report, new indicators, or best of all,
a great idea to help solve the impacts in your community
from which others in other communities may benefit,
please share via the contact page!
Yet across the Earth — this planet that is our only home — and even in your own backyard, wildlife feel it. Perhaps they even smell and taste it; certainly they sense it: Your and my hyper-local habitat, from backyard to bio-region, is already responding to our Earth's climate changing.
And billions of people see it happening before their eyes every day now and are experiencing unprecedented challenges and changes in daily life due to a "new normal", resulting in mass migrations, environmental refugees, a loss of cultural and familial continuity. Bad weather, repeated super-storms, whatever you want to call it, the weather we can't do anything about is demanding our attention from emergency responses to regional "disaster" planning, and on to long-term strategic consideration for our needed resources of clean water, fertile soils, and energy supply and grid.
The only thing "natural" about this disaster that is our climate changing around is, however, is that it is happening to Nature and within Nature, meaning the sum of the global processes that is our habitat which sustains us — all of us — from the whale to the earthworm to the baby in your arms. It is Nature in which we, too, live after all, despite our myth of Urban lives.
That much of this climate change is the result of human-made industrial-based pollution either causing the warming of our planet's habitat or is mega-multiplying a natural warming cycle of Earth perhaps makes what we witness each day in the climate extremes of heat, storms, sea rise and wildlife eradication combine to make it the first man-made 'natural disaster' in Earth's history.
Wild Re*Solve will cover the following areas, with a focus on exploring solutions-based journalism rather than just the bad news and be available by subscription at Substack for the time being.
Notes from the Field;
A photo installation entitled Derniere Régard/Last Looks
Bits of scientific news;
Human consequences, climate and security refugees;
Habitat Consequences, wildlife and wilderness;
Strategic Environmental Security;
And most importantly:
Ideas for hyper-local response, planning, the small actions communities can undertake,
and solutions, solutions, solutions, at the micro to regional to national and international scale.
Solutions you, I -- and we, together -- can undertake now to help our whole world.
If you have an image, a scientific report, new indicators, or best of all,
a great idea to help solve the impacts in your community
from which others in other communities may benefit,
please share via the contact page!
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