Subject: Viridian Note 00052:  Human-Assisted Wildlife 
Migration

Key Concepts: Emergency global  heat strategy; 
multinational ecostructures; Post-Pleistocene landscape 
designs; totemic ambassadors; distributive intellect; 
decentralized aesthetic appreciation

Attention Conservation Notice: Peter Warshall, editor of 
Whole Earth Review, wrote us this Note.  You're not likely 
to find a Viridian screed more "whole-earthy" than this 
one.

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From: pwturtle@well.com*  (Peter Warshall) 

Sources: Among others, Whole Earth magazine's issue on 
modern landscape ecology (Number 93). Many net sites for 
groups (see issue) that monitor greenhouse changes and 
impacts on our extended selves == the animal kingdom.

Email becomes ecological. Ecostructures equal 
infrastructures. Prophesy includes Monarch butterflies, 
jaguars, unlimited ducks, and a sub-movement == the 
Cerulean Movement. Beauty and paying attention lead to 
conservation.

Citizen science is already happening. Kids and oldsters 
are tracking the great heating of the planet by tracking 
NAFTA zoology. Monarch butterflies that move from Canada 
to Michoacan are tracked by kids and volunteers who tell 
who's arrived or departed on the web. They spot the 
hottest spots where the milkweeds (Monarch fueling 
stations) have gone extinct and fragmented the tri-
national corridor. 

    They monitor the results of the World Trade 
Organization (without saying it). So when the US stops 
genetically engineered soybeans from being labelled as 
such, and GE soybeans spread through the soy/corn belt, 
and milkweed in the fields or along the roadways is 
herbicided with RoundUp, they know, and the news surges 
over the net.

     The same for ducks that travel from Canada to Mejico. 
And wood warblers.

    But, global warming is sending the subtropical 
critters north. Armadillos in Texas, jaguars in New 
Mexico/Arizona, elegant trogans, coatimundis...all heading 
north with the heat.

    Ecostructure is to nature, what infrastructure is to 
humans. It's the corridors and composition of the 
corridors that help trees or animals move with the heat. 
Jaguars used to be as far north as the Grand Canyon. That 
mom and cubs are stuffed in New York, in the American 
Museum of Natural History (1905). Jaguars used to be in 
Louisiana. Now, with the heat and forest fires and 
clearcutting, they're heading north and need corridors. 

    So old fart ranchers and hunters and multiple-aged 
maniacal naturalists have tracked the ecostructure needed 
and are preparing for 2012 and beyond. Supplying a space 
to move that is Viridian, since jaguars and coatis have a 
hard time in sand dunes.

    Add to this, the Cerulean Movement which knows that 
the greenhouse effect will raise the seas and mudflats and 
lagoons will drown. So, the NAFTA effect on shorebirds who 
will find few places to land and fuel up by pick, jab, and 
stab at spineless inverts. No ecostructure. Either they 
will become albatrosses or perish. The NAFTA critters 
include greywhales and sea turtles. They used to include 
steelhead and sea otters.

    In short, the webbing of the Earth (ecostructure) 
parallels the webbing of the human invention (roads, 
wires). No college scientist nor the NSF can track these 
changes in grounded and oceanic ecostructure and 
movements. It's beyond the scope of satellites. Yet the 
non-humans carry the news. They are allies of the 
prophets. By believing in their intelligence, the future 
can be known. To do all this requires a distributive 
intellect and integrated decentralized observation 
network. Its only citizens in love with looking and 
feeding their love (an aesthetic if there is one) into the 
net that is cheap and joyful. A new viridian science that 
will allow focused finances to see the landscape breaks 
and gaps and heal them.

    This movement too has an automatic end. Stop global 
warming, connect the dots, and end the movement.

Peter Warshall, Whole Earth Quarterly
1408 Mission Avenue
San Rafael, CA 94901 USA
Phone 415-256-2800, ext. 224
Fax 415-256-2808