http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/10/28/walden-pond-flowers.html
Here is an interesting article about the effects of climate change in the woods at Walden Pond, where Thoreau lived while writing Walden. The temperature here has increased 4.3 degrees Fahrenheit, and 27% of the species Thoreau documented cannot be found there anymore and another 36% may be gone soon.
Thoreau often stated that in nature could be found the most sublime society. As far as the society humans have devleoped today, Bookchin says, "social development... often becomes more problematical for themselves and nonhuman life." The findings in the above article show, in one sense, this quote to be true.
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2 It is amazing to think that in a few decades the hickories of the Virginias may become the maples of New England. As the temperature increases plant life will shift dramatically upwards with consideration to latitude. The Sugar Maples of Massachusetts will eventually shift to habitat in Canada and farther north taking their sugar industry with them. Hopefully these species will survive and adapt to climate change. But it may also happen far too quickly for most species to change their morphology. Maybe the result will influence certain plants to hybridize or perhaps completely new species may occur. It would be nice to think that a positive change might come from climate change or it may just be nieve.
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