wolfyvegan

Ah, of course. If you depend on the government and human-made infrastructure, New Zealand and Finland and the like are definitely more reliable than any countries at the equator. (Except Singapore? Interesting.) Governments don't grow durian though.

Severe weather events in New Zealand

I know that New Zealand has the ocean to buffer it against temperature extremes, but based on this image:

it seems that the island of New Guinea, which is also east of the Wallace Line, has experienced similarly mild warming in recent decades. Maprik (3.63°S, 143.05°E) at ~200m, for example:

seems to have a much more durian-friendly climate than even areas at sea level on the north island of New Zealand (e.g. Ahipara).

And that's not even Borneo. What is the advantage of New Zealand? Am I missing something?

Best way to protect yourself is to find some land at a comfortable elevation near the equator and start planting fruit trees.

Not even fair to compare to 2024. This year is on track to be the warmest non-El Niño year on record.

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Partly because many recently deforested areas (mainly in Mato Grosso) were "legally" reclassified from Amazon to Cerrado. Either way, there is still massive deforestation going on, no matter how anyone manipulates the statistics.

Are you sure that the trees aren't Dunstan chestnuts?

Well done. Thank you for this detailed analysis.

Let us not forget also the role of grass in enabling the herding culture.

Hamilton added that it’s also unusual for two North Atlantic right whales to stick together unless they’re mother and calf, which Koala and Curlew are not. Researchers have been tracking Koala since her birth in 2009 and Curlew since hers in 2011; the pair have been seen swimming together for the last several months.

The reason for this will probably never be known except to those two whales, but... it's possible that some whales are gay. And that's okay.

Planting native flowers couldn't hurt, but as with their Annona relatives, a decent yield of pawpaws will most likely require hand-pollination. People do it, and it works. The flowers are protogynous (effectively female first, then male), so you'll need to collect pollen from the flowers that are in the male stage and use it to fertilise the flowers still in the female stage, then repeat each day until all flowers have been pollinated. Your devotion shall be rewarded.

EDIT: Thank you for the informative post. Anyone in pawpaw territory would do well to research the plants that you linked.

My immediate concern is what a sufficiently large asteroid might do to the durian trees. Mangosteen survived Krakatoa by becoming a lesbian, but I wouldn't gamble with durian. Can't some aliens just sterilise the humans instead? (Non-violently, of course.)

Veganic permaculture food forests using syntropic methods can provide individual and community food security and sovereignty without the bullshit.

In the Amazon especially, some people are already reforesting with fruit trees and other beneficial vegetation, and they invite others to join in the effort.