Yeah on the ecological side I saw a study that found a single intense pulse of stormwater runoff, especially after a dry period where surface/roadway pollutants have built up, can be fatal to young salmon even if normal pollution into those waterways and groundwater is extremely clean and well managed. It is a pattern of awful chaos and shock that echoes and echoes until systems shatter apart and you can’t see it coming if you only look at the changing averages and baselines.
Exactly the sort of thing I’m talking about. On one hand, our environment seems far hardier than we thought. On the other, it cannot take these non-stop shocks, year after year after year.
Read my example? Two years is enough to decimate and reconfigure the insects in my tiny area.
Yeah on the ecological side I saw a study that found a single intense pulse of stormwater runoff, especially after a dry period where surface/roadway pollutants have built up, can be fatal to young salmon even if normal pollution into those waterways and groundwater is extremely clean and well managed. It is a pattern of awful chaos and shock that echoes and echoes until systems shatter apart and you can’t see it coming if you only look at the changing averages and baselines.
Exactly the sort of thing I’m talking about. On one hand, our environment seems far hardier than we thought. On the other, it cannot take these non-stop shocks, year after year after year.
Read my example? Two years is enough to decimate and reconfigure the insects in my tiny area.