California's Democrat Party seems to take no responsibility for the devastating
wildfires of November 2018 that took so many lives. Ecospheric
management is a human responsibility in an age of mass human
population growth encompassing the entire Earth. To fail to take
responsibility for directing ecospheric health isn't acceptable. It
is not enough merely to wish to sign agreements with French and
Chinese about global warming over pastries and coffee.
In
the Anthropocene Age of Mass Extinction people are generally aware
that as the extinction of the ecosphere species proceeds eventually
the human number will arrive too. Many put blinders on and still
pretend there is an unlimited supply of non-renewable resources and
that other resources can be found or invented to replace those
consumed in thermodynamic processes of entropy that transform complex
biological life into ash and simple waste products.
California
needs to find ways to apply principles of Ecological Economics to
large scale state structures comprising forest aspects of the
ecosphere. It is challenging intellectually, for most haven't a clue
about the relationships of sustainability to economics and how to get
more bang for the buck out of real existent ecospheric resources such
as forests and waterways with symbiosis and synergistic innovations.
One
approach might be to design homes within zoning ordinances that do
require a given amount of green space around every property and home
built on it to continue ecospheric health for wildlife. Yet with
climate change and the human disruption of natural evolutionary
responses artificial manufactured processes must be applied to
substitute for natural evolution. Armies of feral goats may be
supported to eat down wild underbrush, homes should be given tax
breaks for being made of concrete and flame resistant. Cities should
have panic rooms for the populace in case of wildfire as a civil
defense requirement, Feral goats could be given tracking tracking
technology so they might be easily harvested for food for the
homeless and for sale as barbecued burgers with fries.
Desalinating
reservoirs might be built at high locations with canals running down
from them that could serve as fire breaks in case of emergency. Solar
power could be exploited to pump saltwater high up in the mountains
where the salt would be evaporated away through condensation and
recollection. There are innumerable ways to synthetically combine
existing technologies with large scale ecospheric management that
would contain wildfires and simultaneously conserve wild habitat for
endangered species. Humans need only have intelligent political
leadership enlightened enough to support the development of effect
mass projects such as those of the 1950s that employed so many people
building new infrastructure.
U.S.
political leadership except for President Trump is fairly poor these
days. It is dull and unimaginative and incapable of getting anything
done. It repeats old errors and restarts cold wars when it cannot
make new ones. It spends trillions to continue centuries old
technologies such as highways and fossil fuel engines, bridges and
public schools.
Semi-wild
sectors of rural California public lands might be re-envisioned as
vast natural orchards with hedgerows maintained with wildlife that
produce more product for the market. Pre-existing wildlife need be
encapsulated within the parameters of the new forest design to
continue or increase their health.
Maybe
the nation should have a better ground up social foundation where
ecospheric engineering and sustainable energy research, development
and application are routinely the subject of public interest. Instead
of creating a new political party it might be more practical to
create a national ecosphere club equivalent to the Rotary, Moose
Lodge, Elks Club, veterans of foreign Wars and so on. Such a club
might form in numerous towns and offer a food bar, coffee, occasional
dinners and all the information one could ask for about ecospheric
enterprise, management, alternative energy and methods and projects
for applying materials to local structures and infrastructure.
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