The western USA was never going to survive, yet grow without human inventions. Bakersfield, California was established because of oil derricks and an aqueduct. Both are human inventions for good or bad.
It isn’t surprising with Earth on fire that once again this wildfire season is one of complete devastation.
The USA is faced with citizens unable to return home or have viable jobs to return to do to wildfires. It is one of the most bewildering emergencies to people. With floods if structures survive it is a matter of drying them out, checking foundations and fighting off mold and fungus, but, in the case of wildfires there is nothing to reclaim. The land itself has changed with lost trees to hold soil in place. Instead, the potential for landslides increase with new and added dangers.
The West is a growing danger to people while hope can be maintained by quickly reforesting with young, native trees that will once again produce roots, shade and water vapor that can recover lost land quickly. Rotting forest debris produced by trees over time is soil. That debris floor soil can be harvested to replace topsoil anywhere in the USA.
With climate devastation there is hope in that North America was once coast to coast old growth forest. That reality goes back to the birth of the USA when only 13 colonies. Every effort should be made to reclaim land by reforestation. Yes, even in chronically flooded regions, with the release of mangrove spicules. The Black Mangrove Tree Forest grows their own land by capturing floating debris among its roots. Inevitably, land will begin to form islands leading to more species of swamp trees including Cottonwood Forests.
The future of the USA is hopeful as out of massive debris and loss of agricultural lands springs nature with gifts to provide a renewal of land and crop production to rival it’s history. We just have to be the people that has a vision for the future of benevolence and renaissance.
