Man vs. Earth

Just saw it over the thanksgiving holidays till the early morning hours on fx show with the guys who made it...they were all about our situation with trees. No doubt we have a connection. Living thin on this ball with DNA.. How could we not be so close. Hey, kinda like cambium.
 
Treetopflyer said:
.....Dsmc do you think trees are the answer ?......
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Unequivocally NO. They are, however, one of the best examples of " the answer ".

Trees alter their environment, they build it for their needs and create empires of and for their species.
Trees work with evey component the world has to offer, taking what they need and giving back to the system that gives them life and making the world a better place, not only for themselves, but for multitudes of life forms and the very fabric of the earth.

There is obviously still much that trees can teach us.
 
cliff_h said:
Great video, Prince Ea is saving the animals! Wait, is that a leather suitcase and shoes?
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Lol..hopefully not snake skin or alligator suede..Hopefully some gosh damn cow leather. Lord knows we could do without a few of the some I think 1 billion they say now inhabitant this planet , farting out all that methane each day. If people stopped eating beef or limited thier consumption to a couple beef meals a month we could substantially reduce emissions that pollute our air. I never understood jim454 signature about stopping cow flatulance, I watched racing extinction on discovery channel and now I understand perfectly. To hec with them cows. I say. I can eat a mushroom that I grew from a tree that has more body flavor and body and awesomeness for my body than any hunk a cow meat.
 
Levi.CO said:
but... "it's what's for dinner."
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Lol ..yeah the old tried and true ..Tough when corporate has made statements like that a household name ...to break the chains and make our own decisions begins to be a chore for some to think outside the box. Crazy what goes into cattle these days . I have a story to share about how disgusting some cow meat can be. I'll try to post up tomorrow.
 
Fortunately for me quality beef is very easy to get around here. But, I do agree with you, it is a big burden and now China is getting the beef fever as well. If you have the chance read "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair. Or at least the end of the book, it has some very interesting stuff about meat consumption.
 
DSMc said:
Unequivocally NO. They are, however, one of the best examples of " the answer ".

Trees alter their environment, they build it for their needs and create empires of and for their species.
Trees work with evey component the world has to offer, taking what they need and giving back to the system that gives them life and making the world a better place, not only for themselves, but for multitudes of life forms and the very fabric of the earth.

There is obviously still much that trees can teach us.
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I am on a mission this coming year 2016 to plant asany trees as possible. Every time I perform a removal. I'm trying to sell or ..give away even..ugggghhhhh I said it.. under certain circumstances Tree plantings. I loved what you said in a previous post something along the lines of sustainable Forestry ..really just man not taking more than he needs to use or more than earth can provide is what it boiled down to. I really want places that are having trees destroyed to stop . Replant with planning for the future. I just had a talk with a Dr of natural resources and some other fancy titles I forget but we ta talked about planting trees for the year 2070 . It's amazing what is being predicted for how drastically the landscape will be changed by then based on the facts of today of course. Cold hardiness zones will shift , along with moisture levels. I'm on a serious planting kick for this year with far future in mind. Picking the correct cultivar that will thrive in the future is not an easy task.
 
I'm fortunate to live in one of the country's largest beef producing states, and to have a few of the new school, younger guys who raise grass fed beef living right nearby. They don't load the poor cattle up with anabolic steroids, antibiotics and crap, like the guys who raise them penned up in a feedlot and standing in piles of their own shit. The guys I buy it from do feed the cattle some grain in the winter, which they grow themselves. They don't grow any Monsanto Frankencorn, though.
 
JeffGu said:
I'm fortunate to live in one of the country's largest beef producing states, and to have a few of the new school, younger guys who raise grass fed beef living right nearby. They don't load the poor cattle up with anabolic steroids, antibiotics and crap, like the guys who raise them penned up in a feedlot and standing in piles of their own shit. The guys I buy it from do feed the cattle some grain in the winter, which they grow themselves. They don't grow any Monsanto Frankencorn, though.
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Yeah but it's still bad for the ol' colon Jeff.
 
TreeCo said:
Jump into the deep end of the pool and give Stewart Brand a listen.

Don't let it pass you by.

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I watched treeco I appreciate 90% of what brand said in the interview . The nuclear thing isn't really natural and I'm going for a naturalist approach ..call me old fashioned ,but I live just outside the ten mile mark from a nuke plant that's the oldest in the country and it leaks tritium into our waterways weather they admit it or not and raises the temperature of the water substantially as it passes over reactors ,then flows out into our dying bay. A once natural waterway that now blooms algae regularly , creates fish kills.. I kn ow the bay is dying for ive watched it dy underwater while I swim in it. Not all from the nuke plant butt....
 
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Levi.CO said:
So you're saying it's a bad idea to swim in there?
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Mostly all human pollution problems . Dirtbags will throw you name it in the water,but every dog has his day. Not to mention the over abundance of nutrients , mostly Nitrogn and phosforus that fuel algae bloom that deplete oxygen . From air and land runoff
 
Treetopflyer said:
Mostly all human pollution problems . Dirtbags will throw you name it in the water,but every dog has his day. Not to mention the over abundance of nutrients , mostly Nitrogn and phosforus that fuel algae bloom that deplete oxygen . From air and land runoff
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Interesting. So the lawn fertilizer is feeding the algae?
 
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