Saw something about this recently as well as the direct harm to wildlife that is caused by paving roads that were once gravel which allows for drivers to go much faster and ultimately results in more vehicle strikes either maiming or killing wildlife that used to be able to safely cross
the main driver is going to be temperature and moisture regime changes. While things are going to change substantially, not all of the changes will be ‘bad’, but just different. We’re going to lose a lot of wetlands and soil carbon, though, most likely.
I think it’s always good to see such things enacted, and it’s rarely done on such a broad scale. Common names are a big bucket of chaos for joe schmoe anyway^*^, so I’m all in favor of adopting anything more descriptive or in relation to field marks. I feel that the changes being broadcast so publicly will lead curious people to learn more about the history of birding, too- and hopefully lead to understanding why this sort of thing matters.
* Often broad species names, even. I’ve found that the general public has no idea of the difference between a mouse, mole, vole or shrew, and has even less of an idea that there are multiple species of all of them.
We should make more time capsules specifically for scientists and academic institutions… Instead of “what would be a neat symbol of the times” it’s more like “what can I take a sample of that nobody else will bother to and will otherwise change or decay?”
edit: Like, could a sample of your junk mail be useful someday? A month’s worth of the physical, letterbound, came-in-the-mail stuff, with a careful record of the time period, location and socio-economic status of the receiver.
To be opened 200 years from now, long after all the non-preserved samples have met paper shredders, recycling centers and the carbon cycle.
Experts in in UK predicted that the buildings would be all fucked up and unsafe after 30 years if they didn’t stop using RAAC for everything, but here we are. RIP forests, contemporary history has shown that action will not be taken.
And the reason is simple, multuspecies forest are more dense as they grow organically. Trees with large covers leave space in between, other spiciest may fit in that gaps perfectly.
I mean, there's intelligent, sapient, conscious, instinctive... It's a multi-dimensional spectrum. The problem with trying to label things and put them in boxes (which we instinctively do as a species...) is that we tend to ignore evidence that doesn't fit into a box neatly.
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