Googled and found this article this morning, after reading a thread on Deep Adaptation about the LA fires. People are asking, “what now” after this disaster that has left communities in ashes. Some respondents pointed out — by way of illustrating what tends to happen, or not happen, in the wake of disasters — people in western North Carolina are still living in tents, in subfreezing temperatures and snow.
Notice (in my Facebook post) the second screenshot, which is taken from the same article regarding WNC, a link to an article about fires raging in California.
My reason for including this is that there is an ecological connection between the torrential floods and raging wildfires. That connection is, a broken water cycle. Capitalist global north human activity has disrupted the water cycle. There are ways to restore the water cycle, and some organizations are actively involved in doing so.
One organization I recommend checking out is called Water Stories. Their entire mission is the restoration of the water cycle. Their various channels (email newsletter, website, YouTube etc) offer an incredible amount of information. They also teach workshops. I have often invited my local government officials to attend their virtual workshops. And I have attended several as well. And I have often screenshot their water-cycle diagrams on my various pages, and in my emails to government officials etc.
I also recommend you follow my friend and colleague Chris Searles – BioIntegrity. His strategic small-scale watering experiments in central Texas and across the western USA are showing some very promising results.
And: Any of us that have a residential yard, or even a common area of an apartment building, or are part of a church congregation or school community — we all have an opportunity to help restore the water cycle via our choices of how we manage our little spots of land that we steward. Please get active in giving input to any organization you belong to that has stewardship over a patch of land, even if it’s only a fraction of an acre. What we do with our land management choices not only has immediate effects on the micro water cycle, but furthermore starts a beneficially-contagious visual norm.