Ignorance
drives the governments
© 2020 Ramaswami Ashok Kumar
He who knows not, and knows not that he knows not, is a fool -
shun him.
He who knows not, and knows that he knows not,
is a child - teach him.
He who knows, and knows not
that he knows, is asleep - wake him.
He who knows, and knows that he knows, is a
wise man - follow him.
- Ancient saying.
1. COMPLETE GLOBAL SHUTDOWN OF MODERN
CIVILIZATION.
So finally there is complete shutdown of modern
civilization. Man has applied the precautionary principle and decided to
investigate the phenomenon. It took centuries of destruction of nature to apply
the brakes to the mining culture as there was no immediate truce, in the form
of a ready made vaccine! Still the government is incorrigible!! It has and is
proceeding to kill forests with its useless projects.
Dam is a prime example of climate change. 8 percent of climate change is caused by GHGs and 92 percent by the world's dams acting in concert. See (1).
2. ILLEGALLY HIRED AND FIRED
Illegally hired and illegally fired. People
trudge back home thousands of killometers, people infinitely superior to
nuclear fission reactors, in the face of a faceless ignoramus. This modern
civilization where anonymity is the saviour of the people in government and
private service, a society of specialists cannot by definition see the
connection: Forest destruction, dams, and modern civilization created COVID19
and despatched the virus into human beings so the viruses can live and people
die. When industrial revolution created
dams after forests were clear felled, they did not see that the destruction of
biodiversity would cause these pandemics(like the American Flu Pandemic of 1918
which killed 20 million Indians). And several other catastrophes of modern
civilization(Nuclear reactor melts and destruction of the Pacific and other
oceans and rivers), of by and for life killing money making far beyond,
infinitely beyond needs. Skyscrapers as background image to TV anchors? Well
replace the concrete jungles with analogous forests which are naturally
biodiverse! Abandon modern civilization instead of undoing the shutdown of modern civilization which
means the end of all life on the planet.
3. LAND IS THEIR HOMELAND
Many so-called migrant workers have returned to
their home states. Millions are asking for jobs. MNREGA has grads and post
grads among them. Modern civilization has failed. Now in every river basin
whose biodiversity has been killed or maimed by dams, kindly give people jobs
in the form of creating succession forests. Involve the zoological, botanical,
geological and other organisations including entomologists, anthropologists,
and all others to whom what matters is to live in health, not just absence of
disease. Bring back nature. Protect and preserve existing forests. Not
destroying biodiversity hotspots like in Tinsukia and other remnant forests.
4. THE DIRE NEED FOR MONITORING AND
CONTROL AND DESPATCHING CENTRES IN THE
STATES AND THE CENTRE
By defeating pandemic precautions by allowing highway
builders, OIL and Coal seamers, nuke constructions, thoughtlessly, to drive
holes in precious forests these unscrupulous ignoramuses are inviting even capital
punishment by default, having in our perspective the suicides that modern
civilization has been indulging in, like the killer COVID19. As a minimum these
rulers and bureaucrats and corporates must create monitoring, control and dispatch centres at
critical locations for forests and COVID19 and others like default
radiological, biological and chemical warfare practices-synergistic pollutants
and contaminants, so that the deprived patients do not become burdened with
searching for a safe bed in a hospital near the place they are living. Learn
NOW from New York Governor Cuomo who gave daily briefs through thick and thin.
He even gave the standard operating procedures which are applicable in the
pandemic: All government and private hospitals are equal, shortage of equipment
and staff in one hospital must be made good by drawing from hospitals which can
and must spare them, on condition that they are returned after use. Shortage of
staff and infrastructure must be made
good by lining up by law(if needed frame new ones in a flash like you have precedent
examples galore), staff including doctors, ambulances, hospitals by the central
monitoring and dispatch centre so that prospective patients do not become proxy
for these centres and die in the process. For a country which is more than
centuries old as far as modern civilization goes, where it has witnessed
colonialism of the worst kind which could not foresee the tragedy of partition,
migration,violence, hatred and famines, these rulers must be held accountable
and must be made to correct their ways. Empty
skyscraper flats which are contiguous must be converted to
quarantines/isolation centres and hotels must be converted to facilities for
COVID19 purposes. For example look at the empty MHADA apartment complexes, if
any vacant, and perhaps those at Oshiwara, Koramangala and so on.
5. INDIA’S CALLING IS ECOLOGICAL SUCCESSION
GUIDED BY KNOWLEDGE
5.1 Reforest India employing people in cooperative
societies now using waters from the innumerable dams which are exceeding the content level for this time of the year(sometimes
by more than twice) and are likely to overtop and hence flood the downstream
areas killing life and diversity. Regrow
nature by ecological succession but including other emergency means (like stopping unnecessary growth of powerless
systems like nuclear power and thermal power and dams, highways, chemicalisation
of agriculture and forests and evil GMOs and their applications to forests and
agriculture) compatible with willing
growth of nature so we, the people can harvest the forest income including
recharging groundwaters and resuse of rainwaters many times because of the
forests and the sun. Remember the painstaking work of the various surveys of
India like the botanical and zoological who enumerated the species in the
remnant forests so that a base is created for monitoring and growth of biodiversity
for survival. Note that the world’s dams
daily and simultaneously are destroying the ecology(balance) by responding to
demands on them from instant to instant being allowed(in the false national
interest) to destroy biodiversity ending
up creating COVID19 now and surely other monstrous life threatening catastrophes
soon. COVID19 is the result of modern civilization in action in suicidal mode
with dams as the primary drivers. The primary infections of COVID19 are created
by the world’s dams in harmony with the rest of modern civilization.
5.2 Some basic facts of fundamental physiological properties of forests to be kept in perspective.
Considerations for ecological reforestation and
dam removal.
Some considerations on ecological
quantification.
Let us assume 130 Tons/Ha for the density of
forests in India. Area of India 3.287 million sq km
or
3.287x10^6x10^6 m^2.
Table1: Calculations on Rainfall and
Forests over India as on 7 August 2020.
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Density of forests of India assume at
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130 t/Ha
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13
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kg/m^2
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Area of India
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3.287E+12
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m^2
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Weight
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of forests of India
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4.2731E+13
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kg
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The forest transpires its own weight
of water in a day
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The amount of water transpired/day
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4.2731E+13
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kg
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122
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day transpiration
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5.21318E+15
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kg
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Total Rainfall in India during the SW
Monsoon
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Normal
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900
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mm
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.9m
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1 Total Normal Rainfall India 2.9583E+15 kg
2 122 day transpiration 5.21318E+15 kg
3 2/1 1.762221546
4 365 day transpiration 1.55968E+16 kg
5 4/1 5.2722202
6 One third area India forested item 4/3 5.19894E+15 kg
7 365 day transpiration on third of
India's area/ Total Normal Rainfall India Item
6/Item1 1.757406733
Inference:
With proper forestation with diversity respecting ecology India should be adequately
supplied with groundwater recharged regularly by forests. This requires in addition the planned removal of dams while assisting in reforestation for watering also.
