Sunday, June 28, 2020

Scrap the Environment Impact Assessment Notification, 2020 (hereinafter referred to as ‘EIA Notification, 2020’) and create the Ecology Law Now.

Author:  R. Ashok Kumar,B.E.,M.E., Negentropist, Bombay Sarvodaya Mandal, 299,Tardeo Road, Nana Chowk, Mumbai-400007
© 2020  Ramaswami Ashok Kumar
28-06-2020
1.  SCRAP THE EIA NOTIFICATION, 2020.
Kindly scrap this notification in toto. This notification will ensure along with the opening up of the shutdown of modern civilization, the hastening up of the extinction of the living species. The sixth extinction is in progress now thanks to modern civilization(Ref 3.1).
2.  CREATE THE ECOLOGY LAW.
 Immediately create Ecology Law which recognizes Nature as the bottom line of all human activities within the framework of a normal civilization( Ref 3.2 and 3.3) so as to ensure survival. This will ensure application of true knowledge: To see one changeless life in all the lives, in the separate, the inseparable. Discard development based on untruth: To see the separate existences apart, and seeing them apart, to hold that to be true. Discard the practice of production, consumption and waste and implement ecologically compatible practice of returning to the earth whatever is taken. Integrate all human activities into one ecological whole to ensure happy survival in health, not just buying a truce within modern civilization which has proven to be lethal to all life. Stop this practice of radiological, biological and chemical warfare. Heed the COVID19 warning now.
3.      3. REFERENCES
3.1   Ramaswami Ashok Kumar.2020. NOW REVERDURE FOR TENDER LOVING CARE in Reforest Mother Earth to Live at the link:
3.2   Vandana Shiva et al. 1986. Environmental Conflicts and Public Interest Science.Economic and Political Weekly. January 11, 1986. Pp 84-90.
3.3 Timeless and Authorless. The Bhagavadgita.

Thursday, June 11, 2020

The Vashi Concrete Jungle and Trees


The Vashi Concrete Jungle and Trees

© 2020 Ramaswami Ashok Kumar

1.    The Analogy of graded insulation for surge protection in Vashi.

We can best use the analogy of graded insulation in surge protection of electrical systems to explain the need for ecological succession, forests, plants and trees of diverse species in habitats, in particular Vashi which is a concrete jungle in which trees are also present while the ground is paved and paved and paved. Can you find soil in Vashi? It is rare- the life giver!

2.    Mangroves,Trees In Vashi

The mangroves similarly offer the first graded protection against cyclones and monsoons. After that you have all the plants in the gardens and trees on the road-sides. There are the drains as well which are covered on the roadsides(Roots of plants in the drains?). There is the giant sucking action of trees by transpiration and osmosis at 1000 atmospheres or 10^8(Ten raised to the 8th power) N/m^2. Even in the midst of heavy rains the trees continue their giant sucking action throwing the water from the soil back to the skies. Thus the lesson to be learnt by the housing societies and all others concerned is that the trees are at the forefront of bearing the brunt of the shock force and bending moment input of the cyclones and the monsoons. The concrete jungle has the trees as a giant wind breaker and great minimizer of flooding. They fail first and moderate the surge waves hitting the buildings. It is especially important in Vashi which is below sea level and the bund is the savior! If the double bund overtops and floods enter Vashi at high tide that’s the end of the story. The mangroves and trees are crucial for survival in these days of extreme rains brought about by deforestation and damming. If some people were left to themselves they would have Aarey emptied of plants and grasses as well as destroyed the mangroves for killer sheds and widening of highways.  Incidentally that would have killed diversity and made the COVID19 or other pandemics or catastrophes to follow of proportions of pralaya(Or is it already past the tipping point?). Thus when we consider trimming, let alone hacking off of the trees, we should have these ecologically diverse elements and functions of nature in perspective to keep in place the roofs of protective sheds and other structures and preventing getting drowned.

References:

https://practicethevedas.blogspot.com/2020/06/now-reverdure-for-tender-loving-care.html

https://livingnormally.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-disaster-of-development-at-aarey.html

Monday, June 8, 2020

NOW REVERDURE FOR TENDER LOVING CARE


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.
Density of forests of India assume at
130 t/Ha
13
kg/m^2
Area of India
3.287E+12
m^2


Weight

of forests of India
4.2731E+13
kg
The forest transpires its own weight of water in a day
The amount of water transpired/day
4.2731E+13
kg


122

                    day         transpiration
5.21318E+15
kg
Total Rainfall in India during the SW Monsoon
Normal
900
mm
.9m


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.

6. References:
1.Ramaswami Ashok Kumar.2018. PERFECT DESIGNS: Ignore root cause, get root shock: Dams the cause of Irma's Fury.
1.2.Robin Wall Kimmerer.2003. Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses. On ecological succession, mosses and rainforests.

2.  3.R. Ashok Kumar.2020. Coronavirus and Life in 2020-A Macro Perspective at the link:

https://livingnormally.blogspot.com/2020/03/coronavirus-and-life-in-2020-macro.html

3.       4R. Ashok Kumar. 2020. Finances for exiting into a normal way of life at the link:

https://livingnormally.blogspot.com/2020/04/finances-for-exiting-into-noram-way-of.html

4.      5. Annual Report,2019-2019.Zoological Survey of India at

https://zsi.gov.in/WriteReadData/userfiles/file/Annual%20Report/Annual%20Report%202018-19%20Revised.pdf

5.       6.Annual Report.2018-2019.Botanical Sur vey of India at

https://bsi.gov.in/WriteReadData/userfiles/file/annual%20report%20new/Annual%20Report%202018-19.pdf

6.       7.Annual Report. 2018-19.Government of India. Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change.

http://moef.gov.in/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Annual-Report-2018-19-English.pdf

7.       8The Baghjan Blowout: The Disastrous Oil Spill in Upper Assam and its Impacts

in Environmental Protection — by Suraj Gogoi — June 5, 2020

by Niranta Gohain, KK Chattradhara, Manash Jyoti Chutia, Suraj Gogoi & Parag Jyoti Saikia at the link:

https://countercurrents.org/2020/06/the-baghjan-blowout-the-disastrous-oil-spill-in-upper-assam-and-its-impacts/