Yes x3 today, had a really good day. Did a higher incline than I've ever done before on the treadmill

1/14 - Reporting back in because Memaw got in the cookie jar, followed by half a peanut butter sandwich...so over on calories and making this pass day #1.

Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? 46 minutes of barre strength this morning, and 3 hours of dancing around during band practice.

Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yes and under

Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yep!

Hollis100 wrote: »

craigo3154 Thanks for the thoughtful reply. This week I read an interesting article on CNN about the fires in Australia. https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/12/world/aboriginal-australia-fire-trnd/index.html The article said the aborginal people have 50,000 year old land management practices that prevent the type of large scale fires that are happening now. Hopefully, the situation will turn soon. Take care of yourself and your family.

@Hollis100. It's a good article and touches a lot of good points. Local knowledge is key to proper management and it takes time to build this knowledge and the associated techniques.

Could 50,000 year old indigenous practices have prevented the current fire situation? Probably not. The climate is different (warmer and in drought), the landscape is different (more western agriculture - high value farming assets across places that used to be native management areas) even the flora and fauna is changing (large spread of introduced plant species).

The state forest I live next to has predominantly native plant species. However it takes a concerted effort by a conservation group to weed out a lot of the introduced plants. The "Chanders Hill Conservation Society" is at work in the forest at least 60 days a year trying to keep down the spread of introduced plants in just one small section of the forest.

Fuel reduction by burning during cooler months is done, but the conditions must be suitable to prevent possible containment breaks (like Wilsons Promontory 2005). With increased average temperatures, drought, less than average rainfall, etc.. employing aboriginal land management techniques from 50,000 years ago is likely both dangerous and catastrophic.

There are no simple solutions to the "perfect (fire) storm" situation happening here. If any of the lead up events were different, it is also likely the outcome would be vastly different. Climate change is only one of the contributing factors. There are many more.

(btw, Australia's contribution to worldwide greenhouse gas emission in 2014 was 1.06% of the worldwide total - (Source: Boden, T.A., Marland, G., and Andres, R.J. (2017). National CO2 Emissions from Fossil-Fuel Burning ). Even if Australia were, on its own, to eliminate ALL greenhouse gas emissions, it would not make a dent in the climate change problem. What is important is that ALL nations, acknowledge that climate change is occurring, acknowledge that modern mankind is responsible for accelerating it faster than what may have naturally occurred; and commit to do something about it (like at least meet the Kyoto Protocol targets. ) )