It's true. But it wasn't always this way. I read in a recent newspaper that California used to burn only every 50 years. It seems to burn every year, now. In fact this summer (2008) I thought we were through with the "Summer of a Thousand Fires" but it's November 2008, just a few months later, and air is full of smoke again.
Why?
Plants, heat, wind, carelessness and arson. We can't change the weather (yet) and that takes heat and wind are out of our control. Carelessness is something that will happen, can be minimized with education, but 'accidents will happen. I'm pretty sure accidents don't happen thousands of times a year that cause brush fires. Arson is a serious problem because 1 sick person is hard to find, then you gotta cure them. Don't know if there is a cure...
That leaves plants. I say a news report on TV about a lady that saved her house by planting succulents around her yard. Large aloe, mostly, I think. So I got to thinking: if acres of land burn because it is covered with dry grasses, why not plant succulants there, instead? I know... too much labor.
Why?
Plants, heat, wind, carelessness and arson. We can't change the weather (yet) and that takes heat and wind are out of our control. Carelessness is something that will happen, can be minimized with education, but 'accidents will happen. I'm pretty sure accidents don't happen thousands of times a year that cause brush fires. Arson is a serious problem because 1 sick person is hard to find, then you gotta cure them. Don't know if there is a cure...
That leaves plants. I say a news report on TV about a lady that saved her house by planting succulents around her yard. Large aloe, mostly, I think. So I got to thinking: if acres of land burn because it is covered with dry grasses, why not plant succulants there, instead? I know... too much labor.
I have jade plants in my yard and they are hard to kill. Even when they shrivel up from lack of water, they come back as soon as they get wet. If they break or I cut them, each little piece grows into a whole plant. I don't plant them - they just fall on the ground and voila! New plant.
Why not tear up a bunch of jade plants, fly over a grassland and toss them out just before the rainy season? Better still, get some careless people, give them the jade plant bits and let them walk all over California. Same difference.
Whadaya think?
Why not tear up a bunch of jade plants, fly over a grassland and toss them out just before the rainy season? Better still, get some careless people, give them the jade plant bits and let them walk all over California. Same difference.
Whadaya think?
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