I listened to a podcast about "assisted migration" for trees and plants. A fantastic topic for a systems thinker. I listened to an AI podcast just before that. And then a few uncomfortable synaptic connections clicked.
I recently listened to a podcast about "assisted migration." Scientists are helping plants and trees migrate to new areas because climate change is happening too fast for natural evolution. A tree that thrives at a certain temperature profile can't just walk north when its habitat becomes inhospitable. And also the seeds don't spread that quickly. Think acorns. So researchers look up international catalogs, find similar species that already grow in warmer climates, and carefully introduce them to new regions.
