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"rewilding" Discussed on Rewilding Earth
"That's we got to. You got the drift. Louis area northeast iowa with certain kinds of rivers. You've got i live on the river watershed which drains two-thirds of the state of mile walk. And then you've got that missouri river over on the western branch and so people are out there already exploring these rivers and then those are the court or not only for potential but for connecting. The people down into using their hand hasn't go along the river and so they're learning. It's kind of a upsetting to me because it's become such a big fake. It's like awake the impacts so again. Now we're gonna use the last pieces left but at the same time you know we've been using bases left for one time and if we don't start connecting to those pieces it with your hand lands are with your mind looking for a river system that's going to connect up minnesota. The dakotas missouri every river. All the way up like you said into canada and all the way down to the gulf and we got people travelling knows kayaks and canoes and and and so those are one way of understanding the full of people across the landscape. also init- dependent on that biological thing. They're searching for that wildness. And so i. I you know like say mixed feelings about it but another way i didn't know where else to go to get that. Understanding of corridors core partners chorus corridors. I read that was perfect sense to me like you said dave forward changed my world and yet here. I am down to this little areas going out..
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"View of the world gets smaller and smaller. What you talk about in your article is basically what we've done around the country and around the world people who have adopted our national park idea our wilderness idea things like that parks. We have just put like you say in the article. Just grid lines on the map. Saying here's farming. Here's mountains and then what we come up with is a map that most people in the country are really far away from these protected lands. Love would love to visit him in order to do so they have to do some pretty expensive travel not just financial but to the earth to get there so that's basically off limits to most people in the country who cannot or will not or for any other reason will travel to yellowstone to all these places you got that over there and then somebody before all of us were born. Said you know what this place right here this is. This is where we're not going to have a national parks fantastically rich. We're just gonna grow on every square inch of this area. And it's okay. Because you guys have those wilderness areas over there. You have those parks over there and have boundary waters up there. You have all this stuff so leave this part because we have to feed ourselves and they come up with that very good argument. There's all these people. What are they gonna eat and writing that pretty much shuts down all discussion constructive or not around the topic. Because you can't really argue exactly with that and you know somebody's gonna go to their grave on on that issue if you push them on it so end of discussion and so that's what that's what. This big giant area in the middle of america looks like it. Looks like the end of discussion. Here we have to feed people and there. You can have your park over there and most of you can't visit it because it's too far away too expensive to get there but it's there aren't you happy you wanna wilderness..
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"rewilding" Discussed on Rewilding Earth
"I'm still Just in the throes realizing how wild it is where i live and yet where i live is the most biologically altered state north america. We've converted roughly ninety eight percent of the state for ume needs farming mostly roads highways and cultural kind of things like that. And so. I feel like i've been really lucky. I have a numerous france that i still maintain visiting one. Those main couvert island and so for example. And so i get to go to these places still. But i really like teasing him in particular like wait. You left i with this front on it. We don't figure out here where we're gonna figure it out. I mean he wanted to go over. There was something left a lot of friends in that but it became clear to me. I go visit those places like going to wilderness areas. But really the wildness is about more my relationship to my place wherever i am and so i've really come to love. I will bear very deeply and lake. I love it a lot. Because of what's been done to in a very short amount of time and yet i see potential there that i don see other places and i think that's really how i got into the reviled and so here. I am with the re wilding nut connecting with the people. I know and so i met roger. Ross give for this process and we kind of formed a partnership and Ross is extremely important in my life at that time because he's very challenged to me. We both agreed on. We were following rewinding We at read most all the same odd. We read most all the same books in southern deep understanding the language of each other but we came from past history a whole different way as was a local agricultural a business And here's mine trying to work with all the different environmental organizations trying to learn every plant species all that kind of level and between the two of us. I challenge each other tremendously and that's I think would really Catchers be wild Wild ethic that we're trying to do. We're both trying to learn how to be wilder and what rewinding me. And it's changed me tremendously. I just keep reading and reading a read most of this stuff before. How do i apply that to my own thing about. I don't have to wilderness anymore. I used to go a lot and well supposed to grow up. I still love places. I still find that interesting. But i have never been a wilder place in one sense of the word than i am where i live now on. I and i'm surrounded by corn beans. Two thirds of the statements covered into animal species. It's absolutely frightening how that green curtain and what's frightening is how people look at it and see that as a agreeing healthy thing on the national level what was being addressed was wilderness series or what we have stuff that's left. Where can we
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"rewilding" Discussed on Rewilding Earth
"I'm still Just in the throes realizing how wild it is where i live and yet where i live is the most biologically altered state north america. We've converted roughly ninety eight percent of the state for ume needs farming mostly roads highways and cultural kind of things like that. And so. I feel like i've been really lucky. I have a numerous france that i still maintain visiting one. Those main couvert island and so for example. And so i get to go to these places still. But i really like teasing him in particular like wait. You left i with this front on it. We don't figure out here where we're gonna figure it out. I mean he wanted to go over. There was something left a lot of friends in that but it became clear to me. I go visit those places like going to wilderness areas. But really the wildness is about more my relationship to my place wherever i am and so i've really come to love. I will bear very deeply and lake. I love it a lot. Because of what's been done to in a very short amount of time and yet i see potential there that i don see other places and i think that's really how i got into the reviled and so here. I am with the re wilding nut connecting with the people. I know and so i met roger. Ross give for this process and we kind of formed a partnership and Ross is extremely important in my life at that time because he's very challenged to me. We both agreed on. We were following rewinding We at read most all the same odd. We read most all the same books in southern deep understanding the language of each other but we came from past history a whole different way as was a local agricultural a business And here's mine trying to work with all the different environmental organizations trying to learn every plant species all that kind of level and between the two of us. I challenge each other tremendously and that's I think would really Catchers be wild Wild ethic that we're trying to do. We're both trying to learn how to be wilder and what rewinding me. And it's changed me tremendously. I just keep reading and reading a read most of this stuff before. How do i apply that to my own thing about. I don't have to wilderness anymore. I used to go a lot and well supposed to grow up. I still love places. I still find that interesting. But i have never been a wilder place in one sense of the word than i am where i live now on. I and i'm surrounded by corn beans. Two thirds of the statements covered into animal species. It's absolutely frightening how that green curtain and what's frightening is how people look at it and see that as a agreeing healthy thing on the national level what was being addressed was wilderness series or what we have stuff that's left. Where can we
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A highlight from Rewilding Earth Podcast Episode 78: Iowa Rewilding and Big River Connectivity With Mark Edwards
"I'm still Just in the throes realizing how wild it is where i live and yet where i live is the most biologically altered state north america. We've converted roughly ninety eight percent of the state for ume needs farming mostly roads highways and cultural kind of things like that. And so. I feel like i've been really lucky. I have a numerous france that i still maintain visiting one. Those main couvert island and so for example. And so i get to go to these places still. But i really like teasing him in particular like wait. You left i with this front on it. We don't figure out here where we're gonna figure it out. I mean he wanted to go over. There was something left a lot of friends in that but it became clear to me. I go visit those places like going to wilderness areas. But really the wildness is about more my relationship to my place wherever i am and so i've really come to love. I will bear very deeply and lake. I love it a lot. Because of what's been done to in a very short amount of time and yet i see potential there that i don see other places and i think that's really how i got into the reviled and so here. I am with the re wilding nut connecting with the people. I know and so i met roger. Ross give for this process and we kind of formed a partnership and Ross is extremely important in my life at that time because he's very challenged to me. We both agreed on. We were following rewinding We at read most all the same odd. We read most all the same books in southern deep understanding the language of each other but we came from past history a whole different way as was a local agricultural a business And here's mine trying to work with all the different environmental organizations trying to learn every plant species all that kind of level and between the two of us. I challenge each other tremendously and that's I think would really Catchers be wild Wild ethic that we're trying to do. We're both trying to learn how to be wilder and what rewinding me. And it's changed me tremendously. I just keep reading and reading a read most of this stuff before. How do i apply that to my own thing about. I don't have to wilderness anymore. I used to go a lot and well supposed to grow up. I still love places. I still find that interesting. But i have never been a wilder place in one sense of the word than i am where i live now on. I and i'm surrounded by corn beans. Two thirds of the statements covered into animal species. It's absolutely frightening how that green curtain and what's frightening is how people look at it and see that as a agreeing healthy thing on the national level what was being addressed was wilderness series or what we have stuff that's left. Where can we
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"I'm still Just in the throes realizing how wild it is where i live and yet where i live is the most biologically altered state north america. We've converted roughly ninety eight percent of the state for ume needs farming mostly roads highways and cultural kind of things like that. And so. I feel like i've been really lucky. I have a numerous france that i still maintain visiting one. Those main couvert island and so for example. And so i get to go to these places still. But i really like teasing him in particular like wait. You left i with this front on it. We don't figure out here where we're gonna figure it out. I mean he wanted to go over. There was something left a lot of friends in that but it became clear to me. I go visit those places like going to wilderness areas. But really the wildness is about more my relationship to my place wherever i am and so i've really come to love. I will bear very deeply and lake. I love it a lot. Because of what's been done to in a very short amount of time and yet i see potential there that i don see other places and i think that's really how i got into the reviled and so here. I am with the re wilding nut connecting with the people. I know and so i met roger. Ross give for this process and we kind of formed a partnership and Ross is extremely important in my life at that time because he's very challenged to me. We both agreed on. We were following rewinding We at read most all the same odd. We read most all the same books in southern deep understanding the language of each other but we came from past history a whole different way as was a local agricultural a business And here's mine trying to work with all the different environmental organizations trying to learn every plant species all that kind of level and between the two of us. I challenge each other tremendously and that's I think would really Catchers be wild Wild ethic that we're trying to do. We're both trying to learn how to be wilder and what rewinding me. And it's changed me tremendously. I just keep reading and reading a read most of this stuff before. How do i apply that to my own thing about. I don't have to wilderness anymore. I used to go a lot and well supposed to grow up. I still love places. I still find that interesting. But i have never been a wilder place in one sense of the word than i am where i live now on. I and i'm surrounded by corn beans. Two thirds of the statements covered into animal species. It's absolutely frightening how that green curtain and what's frightening is how people look at it and see that as a agreeing healthy thing on the national level what was being addressed was wilderness series or what we have stuff that's left. Where can we
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"Nature. Hello and welcome to the sustainable futures report for friday the thirtieth of july twenty twenty one. I'm anthony day this week. There is so much sustainability and climate news. I'm holding it back for an extra episode. Which will be with you next tuesday the third of august before we talk about rewinding there's new ireland of creative and artistic projects with the aim of engaging the public about the changes people will have to make to address climate change the project seed include coastal light installations reimagined board mona villages decarbonisation projects and pop-up energy stores one of the projects field exchange centers on the idea of agriculture linking art food and agriculture and bringing autism scientists experts and the public together in brookfield farm tipperary. The objective is to integrate regenerative agriculture creativity and gathering to combat climate change leaking production consumption and individual farmer's actions fails exchange will present to significant artworks addressing climate. Change a major. Newly commissioned pattern of sculptural plantings by artists digital omani will be open to the public for twelve days over twelve weeks and autism jumped gerard's artwork corn work presented an a bomb on lcd screen together. These works bring up into the gallery into rural hond linking autistic response to climate change with practical mitigation ideas. A now to re wilding. We're all concerned with tackling the climate emergency and doing everything we can. To mitigate the extreme weather and sea level rise we need to spare authorities. Well about how we continue to coexist with our planet with niger. I spoke recently with ria. Rocha and she explained how rewinding helps us address climate change at the same time as making the world a more sustainable place to live for wildlife and biodiversity as well as for us humans. Today i'd i'd rock ria. Who is the presente. All the echo side podcast. That podcast is produced on behalf of mossy earth says on its website..
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"There's another story that are really like a researcher that we work with sam fuel. Endorphin has got a little bit of this. Not just at american prayers over the charlie russell refuge but also back in his home in In oklahoma where he's Studying fire effects. He does a lot of kind of purer bivary. So how how wildfire or fire interacts with these large grazers. And it's just one of my favorite stories through some of his research and the research of others that they they found that you know fire return cycles on the prairie given the kind of like geochemical chemical features of the landscape the amount of grasses produce. You know you don't get a lot of rainfall. We're talking about a region that gets like thirteen inches of rainfall on average or something like that. This is the short grass prairie. It's it's not. As as lush is the prairies would've existed farther to our east so the fire returned cycle is not actually predicted to be that high because the soils and the rainfall don't support a lot of mass build up of grass. We don't think if he if we look if we take soil core samples and we actually say what was the actual fire return cycle. Pri pri pri contact right like or like you know pre pre lewis and clark right prior to eighteen hundred do we do. We see fire turns cycles based on where the kind of asheville up in the core samples. Is it returning at the same rate is predicted. Which is you know once a generation or something like that and the answer is actually it comes. It came back much. more frequently. fire returned cycles on the prairie where we are seem to be closer to like four or five years and the only explanation for that is indigenous peoples the human beings that populated the north american continent for at least thirteen thousand years. Were driving these fire return cycles faster than they would have happened. Otherwise and probably for number of reasons right. We know that after fire the grazers are attracted back..
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"The rewarding earth podcast Supported by businesses such as patagonia tula and bio habitats as. Well as the weeden foundation and listeners like you if you love the work that the rewarding institute is doing please consider donating at rewinding dot. Org and be sure to sign up for our weekly newsletter while. You're there when. I talk to people about the really big rewarding projects. I'm usually talking to conservationists in africa when asked to describe their vision of big wild places with large herds and iconic carnivores people often describe large parks in african countries. But there's a really big project happening right here in the lower forty eight states of america. And that's what i'm excited to discuss with. Dr daniel kinko from american prairie reserve a planned three point two million acre network of private and public lands in northeastern montana. A very large chunk of the northern great plains. Daniel is american. Prairie reserve wildlife restoration manager and his primary responsibilities include restoring and monitoring wildlife on the reserve and managing the wildlife friendly ranching program wild sky he also acts as a liaison to scientists conducting research at american prairie. He joined american prairie in twenty eighteen shortly after completing his doctoral degree in college at utah state university in reserves misogynist create the largest wildlife refuge in the continental united states in the lower forty eight. And that will be a refuge for both people and wildlife or biodiversity manage in perpetuity for the benefit of people and wildlife where we work. This area of the northern great plains in central montana is part of what we call the northern great plains ecosystem. The kind of goes from montana and spans the border into canada and touches on alberta saskatchewan the northern part of the great plains that stretch the entire continent of north north america. And the reason why we work. There is grassland temperate. Grasslands savannahs prairies These are similar. Terms are the least protected by him on the planet. So there's less than five percent protection for for these places and we can get into what that protection means. But but basically particularly in north america particularly in the united states. We did a decent job. Protecting from development the areas of pristine pristine natural beauty things like mountains and geysers and canyons. That sort of thing. We didn't have a lot of focus on. I think biodiversity particularly the large mammalian biodiversity. That was kind of in my mind as an ecologist part of the gem of the continent right the you know you're you're bison and elk bighorn. Sheep grizzly bears wolves all the way down to prairie dogs. Black footed ferrets said sort of there was calls for that in the early eighteen hundreds by some of the early kind of white settlers but it just never came to be and that story of north america writ large across across the globe looks very very similar..
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"And so if we didn't have good grasp growth there would be a good reason for it whereas this year. We've already gotten forty millimeters and we're just in the first few months up the rainy season with any luck. We'll get to our annual average and expect some re growth of the range land. That's been you know it's been pretty tough. Although in two thousand eighteen we had a really nice couple of rain falls and we have beautiful grass in just a couple of years ago. It's been up and down but we're tracking it. We're already tracking it. We could show compliance if wall and values stored in your land when you're bounceback. Now from a drought is got to be unimaginably faster and more powerful than the bounce that took two or three years right after the cattle room were removed and you had a moonscape for land and you had to wait for the rain but i you know waiting for rain with the build up that you have on your properties now and versus. What was there and twenty ten value in the store. You're like a battery of potential. Heavily degraded takes a long time friends at comeback. What do you want to do. No matter what what is within your power to take advantage of and go forth with and what sort of support do you need to do that. So basically you know we've been again we've been taking down our fences and so we have free roaming wildlife and our plan was always to open up the land and pray for rain and let nature take care of itself and to a certain extent that's happening because We had giraffe return. We're having bill to beast return. And they were translocated. I think the government like a decade ago eighty five kilometers away and they're spreading out because they've been breeding and they've been They're searching for new territory and it's just really beautiful to see them return. There haven't been giraffe here in decades. They were hunted out and so two nature is re wilding. The key is to get more people involved in our area. There's a couple more forms that we would like our group to purchase because they connect the existing forms to that escarpment that gets more rainfall and So it's it's like the watershed Watershed our area and then also talk our neighbors into joining up with us just to keep increasing that mass that land venice because it becomes a much more viable ecosystem. The more people are participating and we we get along great with all of our neighbors so even if they're not willing to do some formal agreement. I'm pretty sure we could work on. Migration corridors. so we just say okay tell you what can we just open up this fencing area you know by x. amount to create a pathway. That's not Not too much of an alley but although animals will take advantage of all bad. It's it's They slip through the fences anyway. the most important thing is to not have them have to run the gauntlet of getting trapped in in in the roadway between fences which is really dangerous and i think causes more deaths than poaching people are always talking about coaching. But i think roadkill as much worse because they slip through the fences they get stuck in the roadway car comes racing down this gravel road. They panic and they run into the fence and the smaller envelopes break their necks. The bigger ones the Coup stuff often while khuda jumped really well but orcs they get tangled in the fencing. They often injure themselves so badly trying to get out that they die. The dive stress. They die of shock. I remember working on ted turner's ranch During the wolf introduction and.
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"I mean tourism. Income here collapsed. There was nothing in twenty twenty and we don't expect it to return twenty twenty one and a lot of people are saying not twenty twenty three and so there's no cash flow. There's no way to keep these things going. So prior to the pandemic. I started looking into the very complex marketplace's for carbon offsets for biodiversity and conservation offsets and even payments for ecosystem services. Really complicated. but. I know it's happening all over the us and all of the eu and it's it helps people to stay the course and not sell their land or develop the land out of financial necessity. But it's not happening here because the government's here can't afford to do that or wouldn't see it as a priority and so it's it's frustrating because it's really badly needed here and it's happening in relatively rich countries and utah linked with more about that. Why a fuel. They can't afford to do well. I would think the government would be accused of prioritizing nature over people. 'cause they're still a lot of desperate poverty in africa and even in the media which is which really a wealthy country in terms of resources but the money is not making it to the poorest of the poor and so there's a lot of frustration and anger over that rightfully so people poor and unfortunately they're not thinking about the fact that humans in nature are are linked and it's you're not really prioritizing nature you're trying to create a healthy ecosystem where everyone can do better and i mean i think that environmental degradation is a human rights issue because the poorest of the poor always suffer the most..
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"Tie. Just clouds of insects everywhere. The shallow ponds filled up. The federal rivers ran for a really long time. Normally they'll run for a day may even just a few hours. They ran some of the rent for a year. Now it's only an inch water but still in the desert. that's amazing. There were frog screaming all night in these. These are frocks. Maybe they may once every ten years so they were gonna make the most of it Shore birds showed up there redux. There were geese storks There were swallows in swift's in huge clouds birds The springbok populations exploded. It was just magnificent. And i realized now when it's happening you appreciate it but ten years later. You have this whole other perspective. And i realized that. That's how semi arid grassland ecosystem works when the pressure of overgrazing is removed and that grass from that rainy season lasted for a number of years and It's you know they're each year rainfall not as much it was steadily declining each year. But it's still kept that that grass alive and the wildlife numbers just exploded. It's eighteen thousand acres by twenty fifteen. We had five thousand head of wildlife or exclu- z. Springbok a lot of smaller antelopes. And then of course the predators to come with that. It was just amazing so we went from a farm with four hundred head of cattle and completely overgrazed grass to a farm with five thousand head of wildlife and still had grass in a span of five years total. Ibm yeah five. That's relatively instant. That's like a real time rewarding experience compared to others in the thing the desert is opportunistic. It takes instant advantage of ryan so we finally we've had about forty millimeters in the last few weeks and overnight greens up. It's just amazing because it has to because the desert doesn't know when it's going to get another rainfall in and not just that but you know the animals the insects in the birds. The everything. I think they of humidity levels because sometimes the bugs will come before the rain. And then the swallows will come to eat those that bug hatch and then the rain comes sometimes same time but sometimes it's a couple of days before so you'll see these bugs and you'll think oh it's probably gonna rain in the next few days because the building and sometimes those birds come on the front of these big storms that come down out of the north and they'll just come in the thousands and you know that something's coming you know usually it's the storms are because clouds build up over the escarpment but sometimes they blow in really hard from from the north and it comes all at once and that can actually be destructive and the wind can be very destructive. But it's just. This is an extreme environment. And you have to be prepared for it and in about twenty sixteen. We had a neighbor who is a cattle farmer Some of his cattle got onto our farm through a broken fence and About twenty five cows. I think maybe thirty. He's neighboring we get along with them just fine but he wasn't in any hurry to come and get his cows had no grass left and i think you need that in them up so he could sell them because he had no grassle so i'd call him every day and ask them to. Please come get his cows but while they were on the property it was really instructive to witness in in. This is in real time how heavy they were on the land compared the wildlife so we have this huge cement sister in.
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"Be sure to sign up for our weekly newsletter while you're there. Keri peterson is a professional writer. Editor conservationist she is co author with friend and former husband robert glenn ketchum of the tongasat's alaska's vanishing rainforest in addition to many local conservation initiatives in the various places she's lived including new york hawaii california in washington state. She served as development director for rod jackson and darla lillard at the snow leopard conservancy. She's traveled through all fifty states and much of china. Japan europe central america and africa. She's currently a managing director of the solitaire. Land trust in namibia. A habitat and migration corridor restoration project and has lived on the edge of the namib desert for the past nine years. Namibia is a southern african country. it's kind of sandwiched between angola and it's lies north of south africa quite large over twice the size of california. But it's only got two and a half million people. It's a vast and empty country. It's got almost thousand miles of coastline. Most of which is unsettled. And it's in protected status which is really amazing and namibia is just a spectacularly beautiful country. It's really breathtaking. Modern america is turning thirty one years old this march so that sense Independence physically. It's amazing it. It's you've got to call a hurry in the east. The caprivi in the north which is more like central africa. You've got a very mountainous interior. Windhoek the capital is as high as denver. Colorado people don't realize that the interior plateau his off toward the ocean. And there's a big drop off at the great african escarpment which is kind of a riff that runs all through southern africa. Down to the cable and we are at the base of that escarpment in a grassland area. That's a long narrow strip that runs north-south throughout the country more or less and then after the grasslands you've got the rolling dunes namib the maybe is considered the oldest desert on earth and those students in greta planes run all the way to the ocean about one hundred and fifty kilometers away. One of the really interesting things about namibia is the amounted landed put into conservation protection seventeen eighteen percent. I believe in parks and protected areas national parks and then another about twenty percents is under conservation management in the form of conservancies where they put aside big tracts of land for various tribal groups to manage themselves and live traditionally or however they choose and then there's private protected areas like the one we have been a number of other people are doing the same thing we're doing so in around two thousand seven mike partner. Who had long been a fan of namibia. Had a chance to buy into a land deal here and it was a cattle farm that was for sale although he had no intention of cattle farming. But he didn't really have a plan either just thought it was beautiful and the farm. was really stunning in a new mexico. Kind of way But very overgrazed so it was a desert farm at that point and once he bought it the cattle were removed. We weren't together at that point. So i didn't witnessed this myself. But he said he didn't see any real noticeable recovery for a few years it just kind of look the same and then in twenty ten twenty eleven namibia experienced discard experienced. The hundred year reigns it was just torrential and this farm got four hundred fifty millimeters or more some parts of it got more whereas normal rainfall is about one hundred fifty millimeters. It was just a deluge and exploded. And i was here for that rainy season and it was incredible. There were plants everywhere. Desert tree seedlings popped up perennial grass..
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"So i've done quite a lot of work on this. And we Commissioned a study from the victorian energy policy santa and what it demonstrated that battery. technology has leapfrogged. Ah damn storage if you like as a battery so instead of like peter as being a battery you now have Modern battery systems which can just be installed. They're quite flexible. They can be moved to way. You need them. And in fact that battery technology has leapfrogged dams as batteries about the tasmanian government and australian government yet to accept that so a lot of the argument around like peter is now going to be to demonstrate that not only do we not need it in terms of energy. Secure somehow going to be i. Big money spinner for tasmania is also incorrect. So we've got a lot of argument out there at marm and what i'm arguing is that instead of this dig it up. Cut it down. Shippen wyman tally exists in our island whether it's forests whether it's minerals or whether it's water for energy way should be saying with energy. Let's night. Tasmania applies way. You have a fully electrified. Transport fleet where agriculture system is fully electrified. Lets us out energy. In tasmania to to have a circular economy that is fully renewable based instead of going trying to rave up everything in destroy more to export power. Because not needed. They wanna keep using like pitta to build more and more hump tied new wind farms. Everything which is lots of transmission lines and so on none of it for the benefit of our island all to go to the mainland when the mainland doesn't actually need it so not only are they not giving up the ghost they're they're wanting to doubling.
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"Climate is a free flowing snake river and connectivity to the salmon river secondly the removal of the lower snake river dams insurers a two to three fold increase in what we call small to adult returns. And i'll talk about that a little bit later. The short word for small to adult Return is an essay. And lastly that we cannot squander the genetics are wild fish by failing to say them because the wild genetics of native fish it preserves the option to restore the future of the species without wild fish. The monoculture of huge numbers of factory fish light big agriculture allows the loss of biodiversity and sustainable in the face of climate change. And of course people know the livability and sustainability of our planet in the future. Volta species depends on restoring native species. Especially those that are public cares about. Those are kind of icon species like salmon and steelhead so to address three topics pretty quickly dams the fish climate change and first of all dance fragment. Court connective quarters are rivers and they block essential habitats that migratory fish need to complete their life cycle. Dan's flows the water quality the nutrients and sediment in as an example the lowest maker or dams they cause chronic lethal temperatures both in the lower snake river and the columbia above sixty eight degrees fahrenheit and that sixty eight degrees. Fahrenheit is a marker because it impedes migrations and it causes chronic a lethal mortality s. Been happening from mid june to mid september in some years when we start removing dance we can restore biodiversity and fish runs and really good examples. Are the pod. Scott beck in maine and the hood river white salmon river in the in the pacific northwest since the early nineteen. Hundreds almost sixteen hundred dams have been removed in largely because they're either below cost dams that are privately. Owned people. can't afford to take care of them anymore. Or damn safety really good examples of this in the last couple years are the oroville dam in california and twenty nineteen where they had to move large numbers of people thousands of people to avoid loss of life and then even in michigan this year. We had to dam failures that also had the risk of a coup hurting or killing people. So and the columbia river all the techno fixes of barging in hatchery. Fishes spilling water. Dams improving juvenile bipolar systems. The failed restore a single native listed species. So nine to talk about the fish. Salmon chinook salmon sockeye and steelhead were listed in the early nineteen nineties. Sadly coho had already gone extinct in the mid. Nineteen eighties are spring and summer and Sockeye salmon and steelhead the wild fish are less than one percent of their historic numbers as an example our historic spring-summer shook used to be one million fish in twenty nineteen. There were six thousand one hundred thirty. Let me repeat that one million fish down to six thousand one hundred thirty fish so wild fish are heading. Spiraling towards extinction at runs are almost entirely dependent on. Hatchery fish this loss of biodiversity decline in multiple life histories the characterize our native species. Those are the things that would have ensured the survival in are claiming on our changing climate. And we're losing those. With a monocultural catching fish. It's slowly destroying our well. Genetics because with each generation as henry fish go in spawned with wild fish is an example. Also our juvenile passer survival system from battle stream to the ocean. If you take a snake river fish are salmon river fishing. It goes all the way to the ocean that juvenile fish has about fifteen percent chance of surviving after going through eight dams. Even though the army corps of engineers claims they have ninety five percents survival. You multiply ninety five.
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"So you sit there and you realize like all of these discussions about overpopulation are historically pretty racist in jingo gewiss stick and eugenicist in their origin because nobody <hes>. You know maybe this is touchy for your listeners. But you know nobody ever takes a picture of like a pga tournament with a whole bunch of white people crowded together and say on god. There's too many people on the planet but they sure do zoom in on a big big crowd of black or brown people in some city and say oh my god there's too many people on the planet right and so that's just the nature the origin of of this debate. Even if people were right in their assessment that there's too many people on the planet earth can't support that many people the framing of it was wrong and then because of this kind of paternalistic eugenicist <hes>. racist you know <hes>. origins of the concern the pathway. to resolving it was always paternalistic kind of the population policy approach. Not realizing i think in the fifties the nineteen fifties through the nineteen seventies the power of empowering strategies <hes> and again if we just <hes>. Empower educate integrate into the workforce <hes>. And provide access to family planning technology for all women on the planet this would resolve itself. And that's really the crux of the book. And what's funny. I think is when i give my you know my big lectures my big talks with all my maps and my powerpoint. You can feel the tension in the room until i get get to the fact that it can be resolved or women's empowerment and then you just get like a round of applause and cheering and nobody knew it's not in the in the you know the popular mind and i think that's the biggest problem we've had. Who are people really having those discussions. Still about overpopulation. They are. But i believe it's a generational thing and i actually don't try to impede malice to you. Know a lot of older generations the language you learn when you're young you use it even if it doesn't necessarily fit your do your new view of the world <hes>. You know we all fall back on old habits and old language <hes>. But also you know. I gave some talks at the royal society and the royal geographical society. And you know some of their some of their older patrons would come. And i appreciate them showing up but i get questions from old british you know folks in their seventies and eighties and they say you know but don't we need population policy to keep those people from you know breeding animals. And you're like dude. I don't think he meant to phrase it that way. But in some cases they do and that's part of the problem right because there is a history of that. And if i were someone you know from another part of the world you know where the total fertility rate is is higher and i hear somebody come in and start talking about population and their white from the us or the uk or or europe. I i'm sure i would. Squint my eyes and listen very carefully about the words coming out of their mouth because it is part of the history of this whole thing and you know it's just yell at people say chris don't write this book. Don't go with that message. You're gonna end up being one of those people. And i'm happy to say but i'm not one of those people read the damn up <hes>. And it really does come down to. We have exceeded our planet's longterm ecological carrying capacity every additional person we add to the planet incurs further ecological debt that will take generations to pay down but we can't even pay down until he bring the population down right to our long-term meek. Lots kathy and i'm more than happy to debate is three billion four five. I've i've dared anybody to try to tell me it's seven point seven or higher and nobody's even tried like even the people that you know want to try. They don't even try because they know they can't defend it. And so you know give or take a billion we've got a long road ahead on this issue but
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"So you sit there and you realize like all of these discussions about overpopulation are historically pretty racist in jingo gewiss stick and eugenicist in their origin because nobody You know maybe this is touchy for your listeners. But you know nobody ever takes a picture of like a pga tournament with a whole bunch of white people crowded together and say on god. There's too many people on the planet but they sure do zoom in on a big big crowd of black or brown people in some city and say oh my god there's too many people on the planet right and so that's just the nature the origin of of this debate. Even if people were right in their assessment that there's too many people on the planet earth can't support that many people the framing of it was wrong and then because of this kind of paternalistic eugenicist racist you know origins of the concern the pathway. to resolving it was always paternalistic kind of the population policy approach. Not realizing i think in the fifties the nineteen fifties through the nineteen seventies the power of empowering strategies and again if we just Empower educate integrate into the workforce And provide access to family planning technology for all women on the planet this would resolve itself. And that's really the crux of the book. And what's funny. I think is when i give my you know my big lectures my big talks with all my maps and my powerpoint. You can feel the tension in the room until i get get to the fact that it can be resolved or women's empowerment and then you just get like a round of applause and cheering and nobody knew it's not in the in the you know the popular mind and i think that's the biggest problem we've had. Who are people really having those discussions. Still about overpopulation. They are. But i believe it's a generational thing and i actually don't try to impede malice to you. Know a lot of older generations the language you learn when you're young you use it even if it doesn't necessarily fit your do your new view of the world You know we all fall back on old habits and old language But also you know. I gave some talks at the royal society and the royal geographical society. And you know some of their some of their older patrons would come. And i appreciate them showing up but i get questions from old british you know folks in their seventies and eighties and they say you know but don't we need population policy to keep those people from you know breeding animals. And you're like dude. I don't think he meant to phrase it that way. But in some cases they do and that's part of the problem right because there is a history of that. And if i were someone you know from another part of the world you know where the total fertility rate is is higher and i hear somebody come in and start talking about population and their white from the us or the uk or or europe. I i'm sure i would. Squint my eyes and listen very carefully about the words coming out of their mouth because it is part of the history of this whole thing and you know it's just yell at people say chris don't write this book. Don't go with that message. You're gonna end up being one of those people. And i'm happy to say but i'm not one of those people read the damn up And it really does come down to. We have exceeded our planet's longterm ecological carrying capacity every additional person we add to the planet incurs further ecological debt that will take generations to pay down but we can't even pay down until he bring the population down right to our long-term meek. Lots kathy and i'm more than happy to debate is three billion four five. I've i've dared anybody to try to tell me it's seven point seven or higher and nobody's even tried like even the people that you know want to try. They don't even try because they know they can't defend it. And so you know give or take a billion we've got a long road ahead on this issue but