Reply #37: I see that you are a neighbor...

[appal_jack]

:hi:

Do you think that there is any hope for the southern Appalachians (aka Katuah) as a bioregion? Our mountain climate is where many plants and animals from up north managed to survive the last ice age. My best-case scenario for the near future is that the people who live here (i.e.- us and our friends and neighbors) help each other out as best we can through the difficult times ahead, while also reversing as much of the damage done to our local environment as possible. If we steward and care for our forests and ag. lands, we may come through the coming extinctions and other shifts with something resembling a functional local ecosystem. Then maybe, just maybe, we can propagate what we have saved to feed ourselves, and also re-vegetate the denuded earth that will likely surround us...

Ah, what cheerful thoughts we are having on this earth day!

You are of course correct that nature bats last. Our survival is by no means mandatory, however ardently some humans may believe that we are a 'chosen people' or other such nonsense. Nonetheless, I will not let the earth around me die without a fight...

-app