[P2P-F] Fwd: A Fix for a Major Catastrophe

Mon Jun 17 11:16:03 CEST 2013

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From: John Robb (Resilient Communities) <admin at resilientcommunities.com>
Date: Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 1:33 AM
Subject: A Fix for a Major Catastrophe
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       Wildfire. 2 Dead. 473 Homes Destroyed. It didn't have to happen.
   By John Robb

The most destructive fire in Colorado’s history is still burning.

It has already killed *two people* and burned down more than 473
homes<https://cs962.infusionsoft.com/app/linkClick/9906/5b22572cab3c508e/2503298/9648acd34d3c1c1a>,
mostly in the suburban town of Black Forest, Colorado.

That’s a shame.

This fire *should* be a national embarrassment.  There’s absolutely no
reason that this event should have been this bad, with two people dead and
nearly 500 expensive homes burnt to the ground.

This wasn’t a poor community.  The homeowners and the community had the
resources to prevent this without outside financial support.

[image: Black Forest]<https://cs962.infusionsoft.com/app/linkClick/9908/b5ad29523eaf93df/2503298/9648acd34d3c1c1a>

This is simply a disaster due an inability to think resiliently, at every
level.

   - Pernicious government regulations that outlaw basic rainwater
   harvesting and promote unsafe home and landscape design.
   - Corporations that spend billions marketing dysfunctional, but
   profitable, homes that turn us into dependent victims.
   - Individual homeowners, who were unwilling to take responsibility to
   make their property resilient to disaster (and thereby threatening the
   lives and property of everyone else in the community).

 As bad as this is, *it gets worse*.

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Even the people that *did* take responsibility and *took* action didn’t do
the right thing.   They simply didn’t know how.  Take Nigel Thompson for
example.  He and his family live in the Black Forest community.

After last year’s massive fire, Nigel decided to take action to protect his
home.  To prepare, Nigel cut down 20 trees near his home to create a
firebreak.  He also spent a small fortune on a new roof of fire retardant
tiles.  Unfortunately, but not unexpectedly, this didn’t work.  His home
burned to the ground.

A simple resilient approach to preventing this type of disaster starts with
the effective management of water.

Colorado gets more than enough rainwater, even now, to support the
development of a vibrant, living forest environment.  The problem is
that*97% of the rain that falls onto the ground in Colorado evaporates
before it
makes it to a major waterway*.  The opportunity to use it is simply wasted.

That error can be corrected.  Simple measures (for details, see my report
on Water Abundance<https://cs962.infusionsoft.com/app/linkClick/9912/364b9972e841eaa6/2503298/9648acd34d3c1c1a>),
at both the home and community level can turn homes and their associated
landscapes into powerful allies in the fight against wildfires.

For example, changes to home and neighborhood landscapes (from swales to
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as well as proper cover crops could easily be added at scales that would
have created community wide conditions (higher humidity, lower
temperatures, and green plants) that are much less likely to support the
spread of a wildfire.

Active rainwater harvesting from the rooftop, if it was allowed, would have
enabled even more positive changes to the system.  There’s lots more.

Unfortunately, none of this happened, antiquated thinking prevailed, and
disaster ensued.

Sincerely,

JOHN ROBB

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