Exactly. Let's get back to sane landscape management now please! This message should be playing on the every news outlet whenever disasters such as FIRES, FLOODS, DROUGHTS, FAMINES, WARS, etc, are shown, and before every performance takes place. How long then, would it take for people to feel the urgency to take actions to restore nature in their own communities? It's our only sensible choice if we value being alive on this planet. THANK YOU to Water Stories❤ Spread the message in your community.
I live in Central Texas. I feel helpless watching them take down huge, mature Live Oaks, bulldozing acres of land, knowing that it's going to directly make it hard to survive here as I get older. If you go against developing every acre, you're called a NIMBY. And none of the politicians in Texas are interested in stopping this. In fact, they encourage huge companies to move here and disrespect our land. It's so sick.
DON'T DISMISS AIR TEMPERATURE & WATER - While the main point you make that reducing fire risk is best done by hydrating the landscape, you are wrong about the relationship between air temperature, water carrying capacity, and dry landscapes. Yes warmer air holds more water (7% more per degree C) but this does NOT mean higher humidity and less drying. It means the opposite: warmer air is better able to extract and HOLD onto water. This causes lower relative humidity, faster evaporation, less likelihood of water being RELEASED as condensation and precipitation, and thus more drying. This is an important factor and should not be dismissed. Aside from lowering relative humidity and causing more drying, higher temperature itself makes it easier for fire to start and spread. Also, with more water being held in the warm air, when local conditions are occasionally able to overcome the heat and lower the temperature, then there is more water available for precipitiation (heavy downpours and flooding). We will probably see this in the coming months, along with landslides on the burned hills. Hydrating and revitalizing the landscape will help prevent fires as well as runoff, landslides and flooding for all the reasons you explain. And we must do this since it is under our proximate local control. It would greatly help if we could also lower the air temperature, but this is a planetary issue mostly outside of local control. Speaking of local control, what are your thoughts on how people can better organize ourselves to care for the land? Are you familiar with the benefits of watershed-based societies, such as the Hawaiian ahupua'a?
This is such an important video! Let us restore the water cycles and the land!
❤❤❤ Thank you for this beautiful work you do to educate us on the truth of what's happening.
Thank you for this excellent video.
Exactly. Let's get back to sane landscape management now please! This message should be playing on the every news outlet whenever disasters such as FIRES, FLOODS, DROUGHTS, FAMINES, WARS, etc, are shown, and before every performance takes place. How long then, would it take for people to feel the urgency to take actions to restore nature in their own communities? It's our only sensible choice if we value being alive on this planet. THANK YOU to Water Stories❤ Spread the message in your community.
Excellent video! I'm sharing it was widely as possible.
This is what we should be pouring time, talent, and treasure into. Love your work.
Every single australian needs to see this
Great video! Thanks mate!
Trees PUMP moisture hundreds of miles inland from the sea. All you need to do is let them take root and wait for them to grow.
This is a realistic solution, let's get busy!
I live in Central Texas. I feel helpless watching them take down huge, mature Live Oaks, bulldozing acres of land, knowing that it's going to directly make it hard to survive here as I get older. If you go against developing every acre, you're called a NIMBY. And none of the politicians in Texas are interested in stopping this. In fact, they encourage huge companies to move here and disrespect our land. It's so sick.
The easy solution was to listen to Jimmy Carter almost 50 years ago, and reduce our dependence on fossil fuels...
Also, we need to stop planting eucalyptus!
DON'T DISMISS AIR TEMPERATURE & WATER - While the main point you make that reducing fire risk is best done by hydrating the landscape, you are wrong about the relationship between air temperature, water carrying capacity, and dry landscapes. Yes warmer air holds more water (7% more per degree C) but this does NOT mean higher humidity and less drying. It means the opposite: warmer air is better able to extract and HOLD onto water. This causes lower relative humidity, faster evaporation, less likelihood of water being RELEASED as condensation and precipitation, and thus more drying. This is an important factor and should not be dismissed. Aside from lowering relative humidity and causing more drying, higher temperature itself makes it easier for fire to start and spread. Also, with more water being held in the warm air, when local conditions are occasionally able to overcome the heat and lower the temperature, then there is more water available for precipitiation (heavy downpours and flooding). We will probably see this in the coming months, along with landslides on the burned hills. Hydrating and revitalizing the landscape will help prevent fires as well as runoff, landslides and flooding for all the reasons you explain. And we must do this since it is under our proximate local control. It would greatly help if we could also lower the air temperature, but this is a planetary issue mostly outside of local control.
Speaking of local control, what are your thoughts on how people can better organize ourselves to care for the land? Are you familiar with the benefits of watershed-based societies, such as the Hawaiian ahupua'a?
Couldnt they seed the clouds like dubai and make it rain
Yes but unless it’s held in the landscape by trees and earthworks and restored rivers it wont do anything.