Herb , everything you say is so much common sense. Not that that seems to matter to any😢 politician. I am wondering, most of the weather and climate effects that we feel in Southern British Columbia must be from local environmental degradation rather than some global climate change effect. Of course all the local effects add up to the global climate change, but the point is that with a local affecting local weather because of local Land Management practices it the whole idea of doing something about climate change seems possible because we can affect our local weather at least at this point in the game . However as you point out it will take years to let the land have as much carbon capture and Rain management as a old growth forest
My experience with activists and government (the two are one in the same these days) is that they live hundreds to thousands of kilometers away from those they rule over. As a result, they are indifferent to the suffering, devastation they cause to those who live there. I say this as someone who experienced all the institutional arrogance, governmental ineptitude, and state tyranny before, during, and after the White Rock Lake fire of 2021. My lived experience does not align with the majority of "facts" presented by academics, activists, and "officials".
The people who work for our organization and the groups that we work with have experienced floods, fires, and landslides firsthand. They are residents and people who spend a lot of time on the land they are trying to protect. Our board has 2 retired loggers who spend thousands of hours of their own time monitoring what is happening in the Kettle River watershed. One of our board members experienced a flooded home 2 years in a row. In addition to being an Ecologist, Herb Hammond is a retired registered professional forester. Over the decades he has spent a great deal of time in the forests in different areas of BC. The people who contributed to the writing of our New Forest Act proposal include those listed above as well as scientists who are out on the land everyday and have seen the changes happen over decades. We are not 'activists' who throw paint around in the hopes that someone else will make change - we are people who are living this experience and are making the change ourselves.
Thank you for sharing this. My suggestion to bring this consciousness, of living in harmony with nature to this moment, is to bring to light the subsidies given to the corporations and exemplify how this subsidy will be used to insure no jobs lost, just changed to stewardship based. If more money is needed I am sure there is some available for climate change Initiatives. It is taxpayers money after all. Isn't it? Thank you again for your persistence to speak truth.
Excellent idea. Exposing the subsidies is on our radar. The money is there for doing the restoration work - it just has to be shifted over once the political will is shifted.
What do you think is the most urgent step we need to take to protect forests and the communities that depend on them?
Herb , everything you say is so much common sense. Not that that seems to matter to any😢 politician. I am wondering, most of the weather and climate effects that we feel in Southern British Columbia must be from local environmental degradation rather than some global climate change effect. Of course all the local effects add up to the global climate change, but the point is that with a local affecting local weather because of local Land Management practices it the whole idea of doing something about climate change seems possible because we can affect our local weather at least at this point in the game . However as you point out it will take years to let the land have as much carbon capture and Rain management as a old growth forest
My experience with activists and government (the two are one in the same these days) is that they live hundreds to thousands of kilometers away from those they rule over. As a result, they are indifferent to the suffering, devastation they cause to those who live there. I say this as someone who experienced all the institutional arrogance, governmental ineptitude, and state tyranny before, during, and after the White Rock Lake fire of 2021. My lived experience does not align with the majority of "facts" presented by academics, activists, and "officials".
The people who work for our organization and the groups that we work with have experienced floods, fires, and landslides firsthand. They are residents and people who spend a lot of time on the land they are trying to protect. Our board has 2 retired loggers who spend thousands of hours of their own time monitoring what is happening in the Kettle River watershed. One of our board members experienced a flooded home 2 years in a row. In addition to being an Ecologist, Herb Hammond is a retired registered professional forester. Over the decades he has spent a great deal of time in the forests in different areas of BC. The people who contributed to the writing of our New Forest Act proposal include those listed above as well as scientists who are out on the land everyday and have seen the changes happen over decades. We are not 'activists' who throw paint around in the hopes that someone else will make change - we are people who are living this experience and are making the change ourselves.
Thank you for sharing this. My suggestion to bring this consciousness, of living in harmony with nature to this moment, is to bring to light the subsidies given to the corporations and exemplify how this subsidy will be used to insure no jobs lost, just changed to stewardship based. If more money is needed I am sure there is some available for climate change Initiatives. It is taxpayers money after all. Isn't it? Thank you again for your persistence to speak truth.
Excellent idea. Exposing the subsidies is on our radar. The money is there for doing the restoration work - it just has to be shifted over once the political will is shifted.