Radical hope and clear eyed awareness.2 degrees means awful things  but also opportunity  to reconsider  our  ways, and embrace our roles as guardians of nature re- entangle with nature.8:12 New  ways of looking and seeing. Ancient and some modern with  huge datasets  re  future impacts. Biochemical research on trees, we have characterized so few.9:15  See forest as a garden and laboratory, change in perspective, "timber is the least valuable thing in the forest." Travel writing, Adventures with Characters.Seven Chapters, Seven Species, Seven Stops Around the World in the Boreal 10:15  Wales The Yew Tree in Ben's back yard. Simple questions: Why is that tree in that place?How long has it been here?Ice Age, reminders of the patterns vegetation on earth and time scale of 2000 or 8000 years. Long time scales. 13:43  Scotland story here is deforestation. Treeless landscape.  Aventure to find small patch of old pines. 15:34 Norway - Finmark, top of Europe. Different story  of "afforestation." Birch used to be in the valleys, now it is zooming up into the tundra. Lapland nomads way of life hunting reindeer disappearing as trees move in -- taking over grassland, lichen, and trapping snow to produce soil. 18:21 Russia - immense forest, half of the boreal forest is in Siberia. Most northernly forest in the world. Larch is frozen 260 days a year. Prevents injury to itself in the freezing process by freezing solid like glass. Here trees are not moving at all. 21:00 Alaska -  Spruce trees are galloping north. Species that live off the trees, the beaver....Continued on Treesmendus.com