Climate change and adaptation
Today we are laboring under the combined effects of increased fuel loading, fire exclusion, climate change, and a community that exists largely within the Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI).
Molly Brown: We have only seen our mountains a few times since lightning started the Nachez Fire to the northwest. It got much worse when the Carr Fire blew up. Now whatever way the wind blows, we get smoke.
Arielle Halpern: Every year, Mount Shasta plays host to migrating monarch butterflies. Not only are monarch butterflies one of a number of important native pollinator species, they are a species that has been given a great deal of attention in recent years because of their extreme decline due to habitat conversion, pesticide use, and climate change.
Angelina Cook: The work of transformation requires attention to sensory details, which are easy to ignore in our fast-paced, competitive, techno-industrial, producer-consumer economy.
Pamela Neronha: People need jobs and opportunities that are intentional, self-fulfilling, and evolutionary. Growth is good if it is compatible with natural capital, and indeed necessary for community sustainability.
Michelle Berditschevsky: We humans seem to need this annual reminder in order to appreciate our life-support system in all its magnificence and to face what we are doing to the earth, including “the degradation of ecosystems, mass extinction of species, and global climate change.”
Rising to the challenges of climate change, our area is in a unique position to prosper in 2018 and beyond.
We join with the City of Mt. Shasta for "Resilience Dialogs", part of a national effort responding to climate change. Learn more at the city's August 15 Planning Commission and August 28 City Council meetings.
Multimedia Event
Live Music, Slides, Videos
Saturday, October 10, 2015
4 pm
Free Event at the Mt. Shasta Library
515 E. Alma St.
Mt. Shasta, CA 96067
A new Climate Change Adaptation Library is now posted online by Adaptation Partners.
