TN is Drowning!

Help, we suddenly live in a wetlands!  I love wetlands when they’re naturally occurring, but this is unnatural.  Misu insisted on going out in the rain, but then she was like, I don’t like this much water!  I can’t swim!!

My hort colleagues have never seen anything like this here.  This quantity of rainfall is definitely abnormal for this area, and is undoubtedly due to human-caused climate change.  They believe the planting zones will shift hotter eventually, and plant and animal life will be affected in serious ways.

That’s why it’s important to plant native trees and plants, because they’re used to having to adjust to all kinds of extreme environmental changes, and have evolved here to provide food and shelter for local indigenous wildlife.  Whereas exotic invasives smother and destroy natural habitats that support the whole interconnected web of life, which we humans depend on to survive.

But try and tell this to the morons in power who are undermining our world beyond the point of no return.  All I can do as a powerless individual is contribute my little part in restoring my immediate environment to a more natural state.  And resist the tendency to give up hope.

 

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