Frankly speaking, I think that at this point we've disturbed natural systems to the point that we're kinda responsible for maintaining them anyway. Like, the following isn't a CDR example, but the hydrology of south Florida used to work a certain way, but then people took over managing when water flows where, with such things as the building of canals and artificial straightening of rivers, originally out of the hubris of thinking we could do whatever we wanted and later out of necessity to keep things from becoming a horrible mess...we kinda have the responsibility to maintain things now. In a way, one could remark that we thought we were God, and we took over such a role, and now we're stuck with the responsibility, and we can't exactly turn back the clock. So we'd better figure it out, one way or another.
this post was submitted on 16 Jun 2023
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I think like CDR, the hydrology of south Florida would eventually return to "natural" but like the carbon cycle, if we wait for nature to do the restoration, we are not going to like some things about that path - it will inconvenience us, you might say. In the case of hydrology, the responsibility is to ourselves mainly, whereas for the carbon cycle, a lot of other species are along for the ride.