Not that I know of, but it wouldn’t be odd if they did because, you know, all the murder

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Almost a troll-like insistence on lack of nuance to an extremely complex situation

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What crazy shit were they covering up while blatantly breaking laws in public on the daily?

I believe black people’s lives matter. I hold that view so strongly that I’m willing to shout it in the streets. Does that make part of a political extremist movement?

That’s quite the false equivalence you’ve made there

I’ll take both please

Pretty sure Whole Foods had shitty conservative executives back then too didn’t they?

I’d subscribe to a whole community about upcoming actions/protests/marches

Because they don’t care about quality in depth content. They’re just in it for the clicks. Probably had an algorithm fill in the remaining paragraphs

Pure speculation that Musk himself did this. I hate the guy, but I also hate journalism that offers no evidence to back up its headlines.

That’s cool. Would it kill them to show us a graph of this though? I just want to see a graph

We could theoretically subsidize our way through the cost difference until it becomes cheap enough to sustain through market mechanisms

We know

Right? Name one thing, anywhere in humanity, that somebody isn’t profiting from

Haha yeah those invasives are gonna be a few years of work. Any tips for killing them without creating a bigger erosion problem? I was thinking I’d start by just ripping out little circular clearings and plant some medium sized things in the space left behind, then wait a year or two to really go hard on the rest of it, so there’s never any time without roots holding everything together.

Yeah Ive read a bit about how climate change will impact the native plants. I think western red cedar is in the most danger but it’s gonna be a while before they really can’t handle it.

Wow, thanks for the thorough reply! I’ll try to respond to your questions and also add more context…

You’ve got access to the land for regeneration?

Yes, I own the land.

will you be provenancing them from distance locales of their range?

Honestly haven’t thought about this yet, but I figure I’ll just go to the nearest nursery!

will you be planting enough of them so that they become a Redwood forest ‘ecotype’ or will they be oddities in your forest, just poking their head out here and there?

Just oddities, mixed together with the endemic species. I should say the lot is only a half acre, so it’s really not a forest by any stretch. It’s just a little chunk of land I want to care for responsibly. It is right on the edge of the Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest though, so I want to be mindful of what might spread into the “real” forest.

If you are regenerating a bare paddock that isn’t attached to any native areas

The lot is currently in a pretty unnatural state. There are a few western red cedars and native shrubs/ferns, but also a big blackberry patch, lots of English ivy, and a few other species I haven’t identified yet. To make things worse, most of those foreign invasives are on a steep hillside that seems like a big erosion risk.

The surrounding forest is a mix. Some of it is nice, old douglas firs, hemlocks, cedars etc with the native undergrowth, and some of it is like mine - blackberries and ivy etc.

final restoration goal

I mainly just want to bring this land back to a mostly natural state so it functions (and feels) like a healthy PNW forest. I also want to put a few fast-growing big trees on the hillside to prevent erosion (this was what got me thinking about redwoods/sequoias). Ideally, the small piece of forest I do have the privilege to steward will be able to help the surrounding area regenerate to how it belongs as well. I’m trying to think ahead 100 years to how the climate will be, and start planting for that now.

Conclusion

This probably won’t be a big deal in the grand scheme of the forest anyway, since I have such a small space to work with. I might just do it!

Even accounting for how car-centric US cities are, I agree with that commenter. Yeah it may be hard to get downtown from outlying neighborhoods without a car, but sidewalks have ramps and building have access. Hell, the parking lots have designated parking spaces. Not true at all in most European cities

Edit: I guess it’s worth a little more nuance than just limping all European cities in the same category. The wealthier northern cities have definitely caught up a bit (though they all still have buildings that are completely inaccessible). The real problems are the southern cities like Rome, Madrid, Athens, Lisbon etc.

New one for the growing list of climate funds!