Can 2,500-year-old sequoias be saved by 25-year-old climate activists? (via latimesopinion)
Good morning. I’m Paul Thornton, and it is Saturday, Sept. 25, 2021. Today is the 131st birthday of Sequoia National Park, wheredespite a second straight summer of assault from wildfires. Let’s take a look back at the week in Opinion.
Some of the giant sequoias in California’s Sierra Nevada germinated around the time the Roman Republic, predecessor to the empire, came into existence. The trees have survived wildfires and droughts before — even so-called megadroughts lasting hundreds of years — but they may finally succumb to climate change, and soon.
What’s required to feel this kind of grief is a lesser version of what these trees have in abundance — age. You have to be old enough to remember what it was like in California when fires were mainly seasonal, more manageable and rarely burned with the intensity required to imperil 2,500-year-old trees.
It’s almost poetic: If anything saves these ancient trees, it could be the activism of young people like Propp. We should all be rooting for him.As the newspaper’s letters editor, I’ve been struck over the years by the experiences shared by readers who’ve identified themselves as teachers, doctors, parents, Holocaust survivors and much more.
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