Wonderful column, much to ponder. I don't think you or your children or their children will have to give up those activities, unless of course there is a very rapid tipping/acceleration of climate change (which there could be). If for some unforeseen reason we do have a tipping point, I would think we are going to have very large impacts. We are not prepared for what might come, our span of attention is short and our arrogance is very high.
On one hand people hate to walk away, and on the other hand places like where I live are absorbing large amounts of new people who are walking away from their lives in previous places.
I too wondered about fish stocking - I think it's only for us humans. Finis Mitchell did that early on in the Wind River range in WY, and I always wondered why. Just so we can catch them? All about us I think :-(. But maybe I am wrong.
Thanks for the link to Paul's op-ed! I had not been following his last Chapter and will read his essay and catch up on his travels.
I always wanted to go on a big walking venture, continental-wide, you know? I've had to come to accept that it probably isn't going to happen. In one of the interviews I read with Barry Lopez after he passed, he talked about wanting to do a big continental-wide driving adventure, like across Africa, or North America. I have hope that I might be able to do at least that, but how? It weighs on me. In learning about my Métis ancestors, it's clear this need to constantly move about, be here for a while, there for a while, then back to the first here, maybe take a peek up over those ridgelines in the distance just for the hell of it, is part of my genetic makeup, heh. And for so many other people. Yet I feel the constant pull to settle in, to acquire, to double down on consumption. It's hard. It'll be even harder for people who never imagined they would just have to pick up and leave. The only thing I don't feel I could walk away from right now and live with myself is people and pets. Other than that, fuck it. But even that is getting more and more difficult.
Wonderful column, much to ponder. I don't think you or your children or their children will have to give up those activities, unless of course there is a very rapid tipping/acceleration of climate change (which there could be). If for some unforeseen reason we do have a tipping point, I would think we are going to have very large impacts. We are not prepared for what might come, our span of attention is short and our arrogance is very high.
On one hand people hate to walk away, and on the other hand places like where I live are absorbing large amounts of new people who are walking away from their lives in previous places.
I too wondered about fish stocking - I think it's only for us humans. Finis Mitchell did that early on in the Wind River range in WY, and I always wondered why. Just so we can catch them? All about us I think :-(. But maybe I am wrong.
Thanks for the link to Paul's op-ed! I had not been following his last Chapter and will read his essay and catch up on his travels.
I always wanted to go on a big walking venture, continental-wide, you know? I've had to come to accept that it probably isn't going to happen. In one of the interviews I read with Barry Lopez after he passed, he talked about wanting to do a big continental-wide driving adventure, like across Africa, or North America. I have hope that I might be able to do at least that, but how? It weighs on me. In learning about my Métis ancestors, it's clear this need to constantly move about, be here for a while, there for a while, then back to the first here, maybe take a peek up over those ridgelines in the distance just for the hell of it, is part of my genetic makeup, heh. And for so many other people. Yet I feel the constant pull to settle in, to acquire, to double down on consumption. It's hard. It'll be even harder for people who never imagined they would just have to pick up and leave. The only thing I don't feel I could walk away from right now and live with myself is people and pets. Other than that, fuck it. But even that is getting more and more difficult.