I've been saying for decades that finance sees a tree as wood. Measured, discreet. saleable and transportable. The services and value afforded by a tree include shade, insect habitat and food, bird habitat and food, soil stabilisation, water shedding protection, bank erosion control, localised atmospheric climate moderation, micro climate stabilisation, oxygen, carbon sequestration, wood, nitrogen fixation, fruit, nuts tannins, dyes, aesthetics, family Legacy the list is nearly endless. Equally it is immeasurable. What is a tree? On a seaside cliff it's a deranged mental patient permanently bent by wind. In the middle of a forest in a riparian zone it's a climax giant taking every bit of sun from the ground below. They can't measure this. It will fail because it's born of tiny ego.
You must read a stunning and heartbreaking book called The Overstorey…it’s such a beautiful novel of several people’s very different lives and how some incredible trees being them all together . (Just let your friends and family know they won’t be seeing you for a few days lol because once you start reading, you won’t be able to put it down!! I literally didn’t want to leave my room for days). Charles Eisenstein also talks about the quantification of everything in his “Climate-A New Story” book
McDowell ('wrenchinthegears.com') has quite a bit to say about said sordid character, i.e., Eisenstein; and most of it ain't very good! lol RGB-Y5 out!!
I did hear the name Gaia though without any knowledge except being one of many deities in the ancient Greek folklore. Now this phenomenon through your hypothesis has become frightening real and beyond appalling though I have to read it all over again and when possible to subscribe to your stack, thank you. All this amazing work of yours will it be available book series ?
I've been saying for decades that finance sees a tree as wood. Measured, discreet. saleable and transportable. The services and value afforded by a tree include shade, insect habitat and food, bird habitat and food, soil stabilisation, water shedding protection, bank erosion control, localised atmospheric climate moderation, micro climate stabilisation, oxygen, carbon sequestration, wood, nitrogen fixation, fruit, nuts tannins, dyes, aesthetics, family Legacy the list is nearly endless. Equally it is immeasurable. What is a tree? On a seaside cliff it's a deranged mental patient permanently bent by wind. In the middle of a forest in a riparian zone it's a climax giant taking every bit of sun from the ground below. They can't measure this. It will fail because it's born of tiny ego.
You must read a stunning and heartbreaking book called The Overstorey…it’s such a beautiful novel of several people’s very different lives and how some incredible trees being them all together . (Just let your friends and family know they won’t be seeing you for a few days lol because once you start reading, you won’t be able to put it down!! I literally didn’t want to leave my room for days). Charles Eisenstein also talks about the quantification of everything in his “Climate-A New Story” book
If I get the time I will definitely read it. Thank you!
McDowell ('wrenchinthegears.com') has quite a bit to say about said sordid character, i.e., Eisenstein; and most of it ain't very good! lol RGB-Y5 out!!
Brilliant but depressing read. This article may shine a ray of hope ...
https://substack.com/@telestai/p-179563753
I did hear the name Gaia though without any knowledge except being one of many deities in the ancient Greek folklore. Now this phenomenon through your hypothesis has become frightening real and beyond appalling though I have to read it all over again and when possible to subscribe to your stack, thank you. All this amazing work of yours will it be available book series ?