A brief thought break, then back to regularly scheduled musings on resilience mind set tools and potential scenarios.

Two phrases keep mulling through my mind similar to the tune that plays over and over.

"If we don't fight them over there we'll have to fight them here at home." Could be a Freudian slip. Maybe a peace effort could be sold as self preservation of American culture. If the rest of the world is successful pushing out our military industrial complex (MIC) the focus will be all our neighborhoods, not just around military bases, poor and racially diverse neighborhoods. The push for expanded military in Washington state was a little close to home.

"US Partition of Syria" It is the method used in Korea to keep troops next to China after the division of China proposed between Mao and Chiang Kai-shek was refused. The British colonial powers habitually divided civilizations as a method to maintain disorder for ease of control. If the Confederate States had not lost the Civil War Canada, United States and Confederate States could have been played to create a state of perpetual tension to manipulate from afar. Is this part of the origin of our identity politics?

Did climate change just get real to the TPTB (the powers that be)in Europe and Northeastern United States. Different European royal families, noblemen and their descendants have been working at ruling the world since the 1400's. Climate change has been treated as an event to extract fossile fues as fast as possible and leave the problems to be addressed by others in the far future. Remember the bumper stickers "spending my children's inheritance" that showed up on RV's and campers in the 80's. Changes appearing in the Great Conveyor Belt the warm ocean current in the Atlantic might create the catastrophic climate change event happen within a middle aged person's lifetime.

The reason London and Amsterdam, at latitudes similar to Calgary and Edmonton, have weather like that of Europe is an Atlantic Ocean current driven by heat and salt.

And because the UK, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, and all of Northern Europe and Scandinavia are at roughly the same latitudes as the area from central Canada to Alaska, the only thing that keeps them warm enough to sustain rich crop yields (unlike Alaska) is the heat distributed to them from the Great Conveyor Belt/AMOC.
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As NASA’s scientists note on one of the few climate-change web pages the Trumpies haven’t yet removed:

“Without the vast heat that these ocean currents deliver—comparable to the power generation of a million nuclear power plants—Europe's average temperature would likely drop 5 to 10°C (9 to 18°F), and parts of eastern North America would be chilled somewhat less. Such a dip in temperature would be similar to global average temperatures toward the end of the last ice age roughly 20,000 years ago.”

Compare that to the damage a mere 1° C drop in the 1816 Year Without a Summer caused to both Europe and the eastern part of North America in 1816. Civilization—and billions of people—probably would simply no longer survive as we know it.

Just as we make changes in our environment trees help create the conditions they need to thrive. The addition or reduction of of trees on a property changes the micro climates.

Recycling water in the local environment.
"In many tropical forest regions, the moisture supplied by transpiration, which connects water underground at the root level directly to the atmosphere as it is pulled up to the leaves, can contribute as much as moisture evaporated from the ocean that rains back down at a given location—which is normal rainforest recycling," study lead author Gabriel Kooperman said in the press release.

Increasing moisture collected from the atmosphere.

In one foggy night, a single redwood can douse the ground beneath it with the equivalent of a drenching rainstorm and the drops off redwoods can provide as much as half the water coming into a forest over a year.

Create a living fence.
Cost effectiveness of a hedge row vs a fence was discussed last week in the comment section by dance you monster. Takes time, but is doable.

We're still cogitating on the specifics of the hedge planting, but we figure it'll take 6,000 plants at a minimum. A mix of trees and shrubs on the inside of the hedge and barrier shrubs (a barrier physically and visually) on the outside. Bears can't climb shrubs, and deer will not jump where they can't see where they'd land.

To compensate the wildlife for our taking from them a favored smorgasbord the hedge will be filled with wildlife-food-bearing plants. Some will also be people food, like the hazelnuts and aronia and virginia roses. Some will be deer food. Some will be bear food. Some will be bird food. Some will be butterfly food. Much will be bee food. We'll still have all the healthy, fatted wildlife, but with the more damaging elements of that wildlife on the other side of a hedge.

An example of community preparation for potential earthquake disaster in Washington state.
Click on link for video.

Thoughtful discussion of the cost benefits of Living off Grid (maybe none)
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBU4K63t5RY]

and their quest to finding land (steps begin 10:36)
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef6o69i43PA]

Farm Report
Water has been my primary focus this week. Water management has always been at the core of development is this part of the country. The water master showcased in the video was pivotal change from water being used primarily for agriculture to tourist industry and the accompanying real estate development.

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5C9ye4SyMno Deschutes river https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGAehjwMCM4 Land Watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uG9wj5rX2T0 Lowe deschutes]