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When Fighting Wildfires Does More Harm Than Good

December 14, 2016June 14, 2017 ~ srmiller

This comic was originally published by YES! Magazine

Illustrations by Jen Luxton

Suppressing fires breaks the natural cycle of life and death crucial to forest health.

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Where my head’s at today.

Here’s a thought for Earth Day: Can nature reclaim Iowa? In the most used and abused state in the nation, conservationists have advanced a radical theory: Iowa is ripe for rewilding.

I’m back stateside now and working through my notes from Bangladesh. Beside the firsthand accounts of cyclones and floods and technical notes there is this scribble: “One of the best meals of my life!!”

Some hectic scenes from a weekly market on an island in southwestern Bangladesh. I wish the images could capture the energy and smell of the place. Vendors selling everything from spices and dried fish to fishing nets and plastic sandals. One thing you won’t find in most rural markets: women. In conservative Muslim communities young men do the shopping so their mothers, sisters and wives remain hidden from view.

Traveling through a land that is surrounded, sunken, interlaced and inundated with water, I’ve been surprised to find so many people who have none to drink. Salinity and arsenic have poisoned much of Bangladesh’s fresh water supplies, forcing people to travel miles to deep wells and pay exorbitant prices for bottled water. This young man was dipping into a communal pond and hauling his jug back and forth across an enormous field to irrigate watermelon seedlings. In his village, getting to drinking water is a daily struggle. On this #worldwaterday, I stop to think about him and the millions of others who lack access to this most basic and necessary resource. #bangladesh #water

It’s time for an Emily appreciation post. Feel free to scroll if this kind of thing makes you gag, but I’m currently 12,886 miles away from my wife and I miss her deeply. She keeps me level, reminds me of the world’s unending potential for wonder, and takes care of radon leaks when I’m in some distant corner of the planet. Years ago, in our small Seattle apartment, she set a goal to work in books and now she’s killing it at a bit-time New York City publisher. She fishes, writes fiction, shovels snow, weaves baskets, plays the flute and piano, drives designatedly and thinks no time is too late for donuts. She’s effortlessly beautiful and a daily reminder of why I bother waking up. Thank geebus for you, @erickson_emily1

Too much, too little, too early, too late, too salty, too still—it’s all about water.

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