By doing controlled burns. You basically light an area on fire while it is safe to do so, and that burns up the dry material in that area. Ergo- less combustible material in times of drought.
Also, it helps clear old trees so that new trees can grow. (Additionally redwoods require fire to sprout, iirc)
And that stopped because we stopped doing controlled grass burns (EDIT: apparently the proper name in English is Stubble burning)? Or are these separate topics?
I remember every year, there was a farm close to where I lived that would grow cover crops for winter, and by spring they would be dried and dead, and for the better part of the week they went field by field with the fire department and about 40 people, and burned all the dead cover crops off.
I’d love it if we could do a controlled burn of the copse of trees behind my house, the underbrush is thick enough I haven’t seen a deer come or go in years, and the creeping vines are choking many of the trees out. A few are clearly dead, more are dying, and I’m pretty sure a burn that killed the brush and vines would help the trees a lot, but I’m not a controlledburnologist.
As usual the editors have to slap a clickbait title on an otherwise reasonable article. The Sierra Nevada faces challenges but redwoods are not going extinct.
…and yet here we are, still shackled by shit like student loan debt, rent, utilities, and food. God forbid the check engine light comes on, or my gallbladder decides to start making stones.
“The economy” doesn’t mean shit if it doesn’t scale with the fruits of our labor. Just oligarchs getting richer while the rest of us suffer.
Every day is guillotine day if you’re brave enough.
The best time to build a guillotine was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.
If I ever ran for president, I’d run on the platform of building a permanent, working guillotine next to every capitol building in the US. Then I’d have a giant guillotine the size of the Statue of Liberty built of American steel, and have it sent to the people of France.
Every day is guillotine day if you’re brave enough.
I’m not though. -_-
Or at the very least, I’m fully aware that any attempt I have the means to make would be nigh-guaranteed to yield nothing, and either get me killed or imprisoned. So… daydream time is over; back to the grind.
Resorting to violence or even a full blown coup wouldn’t come close to sinking to their level if it’s actually justified. Doing that kind of thing because your team lost a vote or because you hate non-white/non-straight/non-Christian/non-male people would be stooping to MAGA’s level. Decapitating a handful of supervillains who have their boot on humanity’s neck is a gain for everyone except our oppressors.
Or for a more subdued version, see “work to rule”. You do your job to the letter, and not a millimeter more. If your job is to make a part, do that and nothing else. Getting it over to packaging? That’s not my job.
Rich people get richer. When the recession comes, they’ll buy up smaller competitors with our tax money given to them as “bailouts.” It’s all bullshit. Always has been.
Not only with our tax money but they’ll also be buying everything up at a discount. Just like in 2008 when millions lost their homes, the rich fucks were able to buy them all up for pennies on the dollar in foreclosure sales instead of the market rate, sit on them for a few years, and then sell them back to us at 2-3x what they paid.
Most fruit is bred to be more sugary than necessary, because that’s how humans like it. They also have less fiber and protein as a result. Some zoos won’t even feed their chimps bananas anymore because they get diabetes and tooth decay from human-grade bananas.
Are you seriously suggesting that a company (tesla) that does 50 billion in sales is NOT worth three times the value a company that does 250 billion (toyota)?
The Tesla valuation is such a fucking joke. They are a “bigger” company that Toyota, Honda, or Ford despite not even doing a fraction of their outright sales, and likely making less on every single one of those sales. Their only advantage is that they were making electric cars before it made economic sense to make them. Now that everyone else is jumping in they are going to die on the vine because people can get a real EV that costs half of a Tesla and actually works.
Tesla DID have a chance of leveraging their early market presence by either introducing a higher quality or cheaper vehicle that could compete with their new competitors. Their existing presence could have captured enough of the market to stand against them if they had a product that was in the same league. Instead they made the fucking Cybertruck.
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