WR Hearst "you Woke Progressives in small flats in Manhattan, take a break already.  Get in your cars and see America"The first time I backpacked in California's Sierra Nevada mountains was 40 years ago. The last time was a year ago when I still lived there and it was depressing.There were a lot of standing dead trees killed by bark beetles, a lot of dead and dying seedlings. There were giant trees knocked down by a freak wind storm, winds of more than 150mph. After that I hiked through an area burned by the Donnell Fire. By far the most trees you saw there were blackened skeletons. The streams ran anemically due to minimal snowpack.After these new hotter fires the forests don't seem to be recovering. Same with places like the Amazon, the forest becomes savanna.This kind of devastation is being observed in so many ecosystems, from corals to kelp and mangrove forests,  etc etc. Everything we need to survive is starting to crash around us and we just keep on walking into this future with our eyes open.

WR Hearst "you Woke Progressives in small flats in Manhattan, take a break already.  Get in your cars and see America"The first time I backpacked in California's Sierra Nevada mountains was 40 years ago. The last time was a year ago when I still lived there and it was depressing.There were a lot of standing dead trees killed by bark beetles, a lot of dead and dying seedlings. There were giant trees knocked down by a freak wind storm, winds of more than 150mph. After that I hiked through an area burned by the Donnell Fire. By far the most trees you saw there were blackened skeletons. The streams ran anemically due to minimal snowpack.After these new hotter fires the forests don't seem to be recovering. Same with places like the Amazon, the forest becomes savanna.This kind of devastation is being observed in so many ecosystems, from corals to kelp and mangrove forests,  etc etc. Everything we need to survive is starting to crash around us and we just keep on walking into this future with our eyes open.

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