96 percent of all old-growth redwoods have been killed by loggers and 21 percent of all old-growth forests on earth are intact.
State of the World’s Forests, https://www.wri.org/resource/state-worlds-forests
Just to think, generations of people were able to watch these trees over many growth cycles, cycles that last 7 human cycles of full 7 generation periods (~140 years back and ~140 years forward). But the superior mind of the fire suppressing, industrial, monotheist could only dream of timber, framework.
We need fire back on the ground, and we need the old growth forests to return – neither you or me will see this; our children’s children’s children, etc… will not see this. This damage is deeper than a conservationists televised plea for nature. Indigenous communities and knowledge must take control of land and ocean management. The only hope is that ceremony is restored for our 7th generation, and that science literacy recognizes the global roots of empiricism. We can only wish that the 14th generation walk amongst the new giants in the next era.
(Let me preface: I’m no xylologist/dendrologist but…) 7 generations for the redwoods = 500 years for a full approximate generation * 7 generations = > 3500 years… a full 7 generation cycle would comprise 7000 years… how many humans and human societies exist in this world of the old growth redwoods and other ancient life forms?
