Nature

[ysabetwordsmith]

Nearly 5,000 acres of North America’s grasslands are lost to farming each day

North America's grasslands are disappearing by thousands of acres a day. A new report uncovers an overlooked path toward recovery.

Comments

[siliconshaman]

Well, I'm not an expert, but I'm fairly sure that's not sustainable.

Thoughts

[ysabetwordsmith]

It's not sustainable, but we're talking about people too stupid to understand basics like "Nature abhors a vacuum" (which is why weeds cover freshly tilled farmland) or "Everything that doesn't kill a species makes it stronger" (which is why we have superweeds and superbugs now).

This leads directly to the recovery mentioned later in the article, abandoned farmland returning to grassland (or in wetter areas, forest) but the regrowth is nowhere near as good as the original before humans fucked it up.

Re: Thoughts

[siliconshaman]

You know I've mentioned that, had I the time and money, I'd do a Grand Tour Roadtrip around the UK and the Americas (not just Us) ... It occurs to me that while doing that, one could pull a 'Johnny Appleseed' and seed bomb (with locally native seeds) places as you toured.

It might only be a small gesture, a middle finger 'fuck you' to capitalism, but establishing long corridors of native flora meandering hither and thither seems like a good thing to do.

Heck, it's the sort of thing anyone with access to a car and seed catalogue could do really. Just take a bag of small seed bombs and toss them to the roadside where ever you go.

Re: Thoughts

[ysabetwordsmith]

Do it do it do iiiit! :D

Should you ever decide to visit the Midwest with that in mind, let me know. I have seeds, some of them in large quantities, suited to a fairly wide range.