Ethan Tapper
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first heard Jul 2026
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Many of the branches within that tree have their own energetic economy so they can like take care of their own needs before exporting resources to the rest of the tree when they're photosynthesizing.
And they sort of live and die on their own.
And I just thought of this as a really interesting way to also talk about our societies.
I think that a big theme behind how to love a forest is this concept, right?
That I think in our culture, you know, we've seen the way that people have harmed ecosystems.
And so it makes sense in some ways to...
to think that the way that we must care for these ecosystems is by just protecting them.
And what that means is to protect them from ourselves, right?
Just keep humans out of them.
We caused all these problems.
And so it must be that the way that we take care of them is to just remove ourselves from them.
And, you know, an important thing to recognize with that is that, you know, we can't do it.
That actually we talk about forests as these socio-ecological systems.
We are forever a part of these ecosystems.
And we always will be.
And you really can't make that separation at all, objectively.
But then also...
When you really enter into sort of deep understanding and deep relationship with these ecosystems, as you do when you work in them every day, the veil is sort of like pulled away from your eyes and you see them as they truly are and where they truly are.
And the fact is that our ecosystems are dealing with these profound legacies of the way they've been managed in the past, these profound threats and stressors in the present, and then this future that promises challenges like never before.
And you start to realize that what we call nature is actually not this magical, mystical, ethereal thing, but is actually like these ecosystems, which are comprised of thousands of different species of organisms, millions or billions of which may be found in a single handful of forest soil.
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