I guess I don’t understand the shock of it. I have been calling it global extreme-ing for years. Many many many years. Are we all that surprised really?! After the drought and fires….?! If one is paying even the smallest bit of attention isn’t this current emergency on par for the course?!
I don’t always have the greatest memory but I’m do remember singing fervently along to Spirit Of The West’s ‘Save This House’ in the early 1990’s and feeling it’s importance then. Aren’t we as humans supposed to be all smart and stuff?! So why then would we want to continually choose old technologies that are just dirty, gross and old?! We don’t accept old technology with our smart phones and yet we still haven’t come up with sustainable power sources that aren’t just dirty and bad for us and that can sustain the kind of population demand humans insist on increasing?!
Like, what engineer was like, yes building infrastructure on a flood plane is a totally sustainable and continually viable thing to do?!
Then I’m supposed to trust elevators and skyscrapers?!
I know this seems scattered and it is. It’s a scattered little ranting. There is a light snow today.
Shrug, whatever I guess. Back to being upset that our Christmas garbage handmade by Chinese children is getting backed up in the ports due to supply chain disruptions. Well not me and perhaps not you either but a vast majority unfortunately.
I’m thankful we live on a hill and not in a flooded valley bottom.
Always good to stay thankful.
Danke for being here,
Lisel
#forstmedia #littlerantyrant #kindaobvious
She has been talking about global extreming before people even started talking about climate change and all, that’s a fact!
When a floodplain massively flooded in the 1890’s and the the 1940’s, who can it be a shock to any clerk, engineer, politician, etc.?
The Sumas First Nation elders advised their people to build their village above the former lake-bed, so they would be safe when it inevitably returned from time to time. Yet another example of the settlers thinking they know better while they ignore the indigenous right beside who have had it figured out the whole time. As they say, they would never even think of draining a massively productive lake, let alone basing half of their province’s food basket in its place!
lisel has been talking about global extreming before people even started talking about climate change and all, that’s a fact!
When a floodplain massively flooded in the 1890’s and the 1940’s, how can it be a shock to any clerk, engineer, politician, etc.?
The Sumas First Nation elders advised their people to build their present village well above the former lake-bed, so they would be safe when it inevitably returned from time to time. Yet another example of the settlers thinking they know better while they ignore the indigenous wisdom right beside them who have had it figured out the whole time. As they say, they would never even think of draining a massively productive lake, let alone basing half of their province’s food basket in its place!
Legit!