10 Reasons Rewilding is a Climate Priority
Thanks, Rewilding Britain…
Rewilding = so many urgent, real world, systemic climate solutions. Here are my top 10:
- biodiversity rescue & restoration
- local moisture retention
- local moisture cycling restoration
- rapid carbon absorption & retention
- micro-climate establishment & maintenance
- local weather temperatizing
- extreme weather resilience
- radically improved air and water quality
- more beauty — — for Goodness sake
- restoration of “the balance” required to continue this amazing life
Native deciduous vegetation is key.
Leaving nature alone is key.
This simple, eight-and-half-minute video shares a great vision:
Imagine the ideas above integrated wherever you live — the city, the burbs, the countryside…What can you envision? Grass roofs, living walls, wildlife corridors, wildlife bridges, re-forested lands?
Highway medians bursting with pollinators? Backyards that are lush, cool refuges? Locally-grown, abundant produce?
Deep, carbon-rich, biodiverse, drought-buffered soils? Better quality food, climate, scenery, and local culture?
Jobs, jobs, jobs that have to do with the care and continuation of our life-support system?
Fewer catastrophic weather events? Lesser catastrophic weather event impacts? We are headed in the wrong direction, currently…
Lusher landscapes that enhance your locality’s “sponge”; its ability to retain moisture, carbon, beauty, coolth, and biodiversity?
A greater relationship for yourself with other forms of life?
Cleaner air, cleaner water…?
How far can we go? How much can we do?
How biospherically-rich, productive, and secure can we make our future? This isn’t some treehugger’s dream — this is how we have to live, to live on a planet with ~8 Billion people.
My friend, Vance Blackfox, talks about the Native American way of life as “Take and Live” rather than our way of “Kill and Take.” Listen to Vance in this podcast (i interview): https://allcreation.transistor.fm/6
What can you do? What can you imagine? How can technology serve biospheric reality?
Thank you, Rewilding Britain for this 8 minute walk through the British uplands showing where we are now and where we can go, just by conforming today’s way of life to the way of life for our biosphere.
And — Rewilding Britain gives at least 10 reasons + lists dozens of species that would be restored with this plan / approach to rebalancing our way of life. Read more here.
