Have you ever noticed that sometimes when people have broken things beyond repair and pretty much given up on making them right they are willing to magnanimously allow the hated stepchild to try fixing them? I don’t mean actual stepchild of course, I mean the thing that nobody trusted or appreciated before is suddenly handed the keys to the burning castle and told “knock yourself our”. Maybe it’s your teen age son who insists he can handle it by himself and them suddenly at two in the morning wakes up mom for help. Or maybe it’s your boss who never lets you give presentations because he believes Jake is better at them, but one afternoon he finds out that Jake is stealing piles of toner from the printer room and the boss gets so mad he lets you try to give the talk instead. It happens all the time with republicans and the economy who once in a while give a democratic president a chance to fix the hole they’ve dug America into.
Sometimes it happens with beavers too.
Now that our climate is inflamed and swollen to the rafters and things are burning, flooding and drying up at a great rate, people are suddenly shrugging their shoulders and saying, sure.let the beaver give it a try. It probably can’t make it worse. And gosh, undoing all the bad things we spent the last 150 years inventing and getting rich off of is a lot of work and we’re tired of trying anyway. Let the rodent try for a bit.
The letter endorsing beaver based solutions goes today to the California Resources Agency. If you haven’t signed on you really should. God willing somebody out there will feel a little more supported then next time they recommend a crazy beaver idea as a solution.
