Nudging Adaptation: Balance and Biodiversity “The strength of life is in its diversity”(p.10) and “Everything in this web has its part. Everything is equal and important to the whole.”(OI, p.11)
The challenge in those places where the conquest has ended is “bringing back the biodiversity that existed prior to the colonization…there’s a possibility now of gathering consciousness among many hundreds of millions of people about how…this is a very good thing Perhaps (?)“There’s no set point, or specific time, for restoration to go back to.” (OI, Martinez, et.al., 111) Restoration is to a certain state of equilibrium…and “When that happens” and “certain shoreline plant species are returning…”small mammals and the birds, insects, and other life, all start to come and fall back into place. “Once you start to restore an important part of an ecosystem, what we call the keystone species have to return. This raises a very interesting question, then in light of that concept: Are humans keystone species?” Answer – “Humans are keystone species where they have been…”ecologically appropriate. Humans are not innately destructive, innately exploitive, it has to do with culture, it has to do with a way of relating to the land that implies both spiritual and ecological wisdom, and this is embodied in Traditional Ecological Knowledge.” (OI, Martinez, et.al., 107) One thing is for sure, Manitonquat says, “It is human beings that have put it in jeopardy and” – if human beings hope to survive as a species - then “only human beings that can save it.”(Manitonquat, OI, xv)
“Our circle of life…biological diversity, and the Indigenous concepts of the Circle of Life are one and the same.”(OI, Goldtooth, 225)
“To put it another way, we don’t set back the ecological clock. We reset the co-evolutionary clock so that it may run again at its optimum rate. That’s the broad evolutionary trajectory we hope to nudge back into place.” (OI, Martinez, et.al., 112) “We want the rate of change, the kind of change, and the intensity of change to be within the historical range of variability of how ecosystems have evolved and co-evolved with people. When it exceeds that rate, then there’s ecological and a cultural problem. Cultures can’t adapt fast enough to the changes. Forests can’t adapt fast enough…either. So with people and trees, it’s the same idea. We need to adapt the same slow pace of change through restoration.” (OI, Martinez, et.al., 112) As the I Ching says, “Growing gradually keeps the tree strong, firm, and stable. This is the wisdom of nature. Weeds grow quickly – they are neigher strong nor stable.”(I Ching, p. 368) “What we want to see happen is the restoration of the co-evolutionary and co-adaptive role between culture and nature at the appropriate temporal and special scales of the earth’s own schedule.” (OI, Martinez, et.al., 112) “The system functions on its own once we nudge it a little bit in that direction, but we don’t restore back to a set time and expect it to stay there.” (OI, Martinez, et.al., 112)
If one masters the principle of adjustment, no matter how difficult the situation, any problem can be solved.”( I Ching,, 245)
The challenge in those places where the conquest has ended is “bringing back the biodiversity that existed prior to the colonization…there’s a possibility now of gathering consciousness among many hundreds of millions of people about how…this is a very good thing Perhaps (?)“There’s no set point, or specific time, for restoration to go back to.” (OI, Martinez, et.al., 111) Restoration is to a certain state of equilibrium…and “When that happens” and “certain shoreline plant species are returning…”small mammals and the birds, insects, and other life, all start to come and fall back into place. “Once you start to restore an important part of an ecosystem, what we call the keystone species have to return. This raises a very interesting question, then in light of that concept: Are humans keystone species?” Answer – “Humans are keystone species where they have been…”ecologically appropriate. Humans are not innately destructive, innately exploitive, it has to do with culture, it has to do with a way of relating to the land that implies both spiritual and ecological wisdom, and this is embodied in Traditional Ecological Knowledge.” (OI, Martinez, et.al., 107) One thing is for sure, Manitonquat says, “It is human beings that have put it in jeopardy and” – if human beings hope to survive as a species - then “only human beings that can save it.”(Manitonquat, OI, xv)
“Our circle of life…biological diversity, and the Indigenous concepts of the Circle of Life are one and the same.”(OI, Goldtooth, 225)
“To put it another way, we don’t set back the ecological clock. We reset the co-evolutionary clock so that it may run again at its optimum rate. That’s the broad evolutionary trajectory we hope to nudge back into place.” (OI, Martinez, et.al., 112) “We want the rate of change, the kind of change, and the intensity of change to be within the historical range of variability of how ecosystems have evolved and co-evolved with people. When it exceeds that rate, then there’s ecological and a cultural problem. Cultures can’t adapt fast enough to the changes. Forests can’t adapt fast enough…either. So with people and trees, it’s the same idea. We need to adapt the same slow pace of change through restoration.” (OI, Martinez, et.al., 112) As the I Ching says, “Growing gradually keeps the tree strong, firm, and stable. This is the wisdom of nature. Weeds grow quickly – they are neigher strong nor stable.”(I Ching, p. 368) “What we want to see happen is the restoration of the co-evolutionary and co-adaptive role between culture and nature at the appropriate temporal and special scales of the earth’s own schedule.” (OI, Martinez, et.al., 112) “The system functions on its own once we nudge it a little bit in that direction, but we don’t restore back to a set time and expect it to stay there.” (OI, Martinez, et.al., 112)
If one masters the principle of adjustment, no matter how difficult the situation, any problem can be solved.”( I Ching,, 245)