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.       4. R. 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.       8. The 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/