As the climate changes for the worse (more dramatic, hotter, EXTREME) and sea levels rise and eat up land, we need to do more to preserve TREES. Not just “old growth” trees, but even (especially?) patches of air-filtering, cooling whatever-trees within neighborhoods.
I’ve lived in the Puget Sound region my whole entire life. Almost fifty years. With four generations of Washingtonians preceding me (and three of those generations being ancestors I knew and heard stories from), I have perspective most of my neighbors do not. Actually, now that I think of it, ALL of the neighbors I know are originally from out of state. I am curious now to find out how rare and relatively-“expert” my perspective truly is because just writing this now I’m aware it is even more valuable and unusual than I loosely, resentfully suspected. Over the course of my lifetime I’ve seen over-development, massive loss of habitat, and extreme weather events along with disasters caused by all of these things coming together to shit on everybody.
My whole life I’ve seen the media REFUSE to connect the dots between flooding and deforestation. Between landslides and overdevelopment. They’re always like “wow lots of rain CAUSED this” with no mention of any other contributing factors. As though humans didn’t bring the shit on themselves. No it was RAIN! That completely unanticipated natural and LIFE-SUSTAINING NECESSITY. That people (especially fuckers who do not even belong here) ungratefully view as a disaster in itself.
I’m trying to funnel most of today’s / this year’s bitching about this into a fictionalized version inspired by real events / my current bitch-ass suffering. But I had to come here and vent a little because it is SUPER CLEAR that one thing we need to do as resources like water, clean air, and land/living space that is cool enough to sustain life become more and more scarce is GET FUCKING SERIOUS.
Between some pretentious fake-ass fuckers from California and a loud-ass cockholster from Pennsylvania, two+ treed lots next door to us were recently leveled. They made no attempt to preserve ANY of the trees on “their” new-to-them property (and even made sure to rip up and chainsaw down a bunch of trees and habitat surrounding “their” property).
We’ve been directly impacted in a shit-ton of ways with absolutely no meaningful mitigation, but what is even worse is the way the whole neighborhood will continue to be impacted in upcoming decades. All in a town-sized city that pretends to care about the environment. A city that is *obsessed* with regulating people and businesses in some ways, but not where it really matters.
It’s time to get serious as lakes and rivers and reservoirs (and freedoms) dry up and more and more people from California, Arizona, Utah, Nevada, etc. inevitably move up here; those ignorant, clueless &/or uncaring fuckers — especially those rich fuckers — should NOT be allowed to cut down a single fucking tree to build *anything*, to buy anything, to expand anything, or to live or profit on themselves. We need to stop making it so easy for them. At the very least it needs to cost more, and a meaningful amount of that money needs to go to those who ARE local, who were here first, to at least provide some kind of compensation and future care for the shit storms that are raining down on us.
The heat dome last year was a huge wake-up call, but when you have fuckers from out of state who’ve experienced Chicago heat or LA heat or fucking Phoenix desert heat … they don’t fucking get it. They DO NOT FUCKING GRASP how absolutely abnormal this shit is for this land here, or the humidity. OR HOW MANY PEOPLE (and birds, and crops, etc.) DIED OR GOT VERY VERY SICK AND SUFFERED. They did not perceive it as life-threatening or a dire warning.
The heat dome last year and listening to motherfuckers WHO ARE NOT FROM HERE AND/OR DON’T EVEN LIVE HERE diminish the severity of it was an event like C19 where people’s reactions and behaviors in response to it were worse for me than the event itself.
Don’t move up or over here with your dumb ass selves and destroy resources and set more shit on fire. You should never be given that opportunity in this century going forward. Don’t comment. Don’t legislate. Don’t regulate. Don’t SEIZE AND DESTROY.
We need trees. For clean air. For clean water. For *safety*. For cooling. For SURVIVAL.
God almighty I fucking hate people. If you are hell-bent on killing yourselves or just living a miserable near-death existence … FINE. But do you have to take every living thing around you with you?
