The government is fixated on chopping down trees under the guise of a debushing campaign. Trees are more than leaves and wood. One hopes our Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley – celebrated abroad as an environmental champion – will match her eloquence at the international lectern with sustainable action on the home front.
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Well, what if Climate Change turns out to be the same type of religious doctrine as Covid19?
Just asking!
Even as the evidence seems overwhelmingly incontrovertible. But for Covid19 maybe hundreds of millions died, as if more “evidence” was needed. But we now know that that was well located within the panteon of lies that one finds a certain book. Both being constructs of man’s fértile, may wicked, imaginations.
But whether we have been misguided again with this Climate Change agenda, it seems not to be fundamentally persausive in altering White, Western elites that wars should not be, by implication, fought over oil and other natural resources within the Caribbean Sea. For either outcome serves to reinforce what is being said to be our greatest fear.
That in socalled Europe where Caucasians are intent to continue an over one hundred year war against Russia for its resources, under various guises, that their intention well qualifies as a Faustian Bargain.
Of course, this line or argument may well be used by those who have kept the Global South poor for centuries that this was about climate preservation.
@ Pacha
“But we now know that that was well located within the panteon of lies that one finds a certain book.”
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Pure slander!
What is your evidence or reference?
Sounds like you are producing straw shiite and then playing that you flushing it…
If you really want to know the situation WRT climate change or Covid19, just ask Bushie and stop casting false aspersions against the greatest book EVER written.
LOL
Good to see however, that it is alive and well in your head… rent-free!!
Bushie
There have been many books written. And many other writings using other methods long before books became a communication device.
Pray tell, since you have only read the one referred to, how is it possible to make such a judgement, or was tha the product of some maraculous knowledge tranferance delivered by the Boss Man?
Our evidence starts with genesis and ends with revelations, every verse between.
We promise to stop slandering your most beloved book if you could only, only, only explain the fiction of an Adam and a Lithe or Eve!
Keep it within a zone where belief is not required.
So left the bush for rats and then you post a blog about a leptos? I guess we should left the cow itch too because it adds to our biodiversity? It is called balance! But waaaait, has the government not started a project to plant 1 million trees and had planted over 500,000 a year ago? Then again this is BU where when I spoke about carbon offsetting a few years back, one of the BU know-it-alls thought I was talking about stock trading.🤣
The Bible is just a bunch of Israeli Propaganda
2nd Covenant to replace 1st was more mellow
Is Islam another chapter/spin off in the Abrahamic God book series
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The third and last part of the Abrahamic covenant is known as the promise of blessing and redemption. It can be found in Genesis 12:1-3, where God promises to bless Abraham and all of his descendants. As part of this last covenant, God asked Abraham to remove his foreskin. and the foreskin of all Jewish boys after him.
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Solution to reducing run-off and flooding
Over the last 50 years this maintenance of the island’s drainage system has dwindled to little or nothing.
This article was written and submitted by Peter Webster, a former senior agricultural officer in the Ministry of Agriculture.
“The only source of knowledge is experience.”
– Albert Einstein
“Procrastination is like a credit card: it’s a lot of fun until you get the bill.”
– Christopher Parker
When the first permanent settlers arrived in Barbados in 1627, the island was uninhabited by other people, but otherwise occupied by large numbers of wild hogs that served as the initial food source for the settlers. That is where our “pork mout” come from.
These hogs had thrived and multiplied after being freed on the island by Portuguese sailors many years earlier.
The island was largely forested (Bearded fig), possessed lots of ponds and swamps especially in the wet season, which helped to provide water for the hogs to thrive and multiply.
The settlers soon learnt that Barbados soils were heavy, not very permeable clays, produced from the weathering of the limestone substrate.
Hence the ponding and swampy conditions that existed, but which also initially benefited the settlers through their water supply, that is, before they could establish water wells across the island.
Development process
Subsequent development of the island involved, among a myriad of things, drainage of most of the ponds and swampy areas that increased crop production and reduced the number of mosquitoes. This, in turn, involved the opening of “sucks”, which were openings in the soil exposing the underlying limestone and or suck wells that were shallow (less than 30 feet) vertical drainage wells, across the island, which increased the flow of water into the limestone substrate by a factor of more than ten.
It is this limestone that filters our water before it enters our aquifers at the base of the limestone (which is often more than 200 feet thick).
The aquifers sit on top of the impervious Oceanic geological layer that lies under the limestone.
As a youngster growing up in Barbados, I have heard many visiting engineers compliment the ingenuity of the early Barbadians in establishing those shallow vertical drains into our coral limestone because they not only increased the rate of drainage and reduced flooding, but also recharged our aquifers after filtration through the limestone below them.
Barbados currently has thousands of these sucks and shallow suck wells across our island as a legacy of these first island developers.
The problem is that these sucks and suck wells do not normally function at their best for long periods because they get silted up, as do check dams which are also silt traps, and need to be cleaned on a regular basis.
Such cleaning used to be undertaken, in the days prior to the demise of the sugar industry, both by the plantation management, as good husbandry for maintaining high levels of crop production, and by the old “Road Board”, to maintain good road drainage.
On frequent occasions one used to see a winch frame over the mouth of a well that was being cleaned. The winch served to lower the cleaners into the well and lift their dug material out of the well.
Dwindling maintenance
Over the last 50 years this maintenance of the island’s drainage system has dwindled to little or nothing.
All the drainage wells that the Town and Country Planning Department (TCPD) are insisting that developers construct in new developments will suffer the same fate, since the planners have made no provision for those wells’ maintenance.
I recently heard a developer complaining that the TCPD had made him dig 18 such wells in his last housing development. Hence the serious problems we are having with runoff in heavy rains that are followed by flooding, as many of the shallow suck wells in the older developments have silted up.
In the past, the sucks and shallow suck wells were complemented by the lowlying areas or “bottoms” in fields, which, like check dams, served to retain water from running off while it was draining into the sucks and suck wells.
In the future, we need to clean our existing sucks and suck wells, while building new ones, along with check dams in the drains and gullies, which will complement each other in reducing run-off and flooding.
It must also be repeated that the check dams will also silt up and will also need to be cleaned on a regular basis.
These recommendations are nothing new. Over the years, no less than three drainage studies, the first circa 1969, conducted by qualified engineers, contracted by the Government of Barbados, all recommended check dams in the gullies, complemented by suck wells, as mitigation measures for the flooding.
Why has the Public Sector of Barbados not implemented this?
Use of gullies
A few years ago a Barbados Water Authority spokesperson told me that “our gullies are being used for waste disposal and we are afraid that waste will pollute our fresh water resources”.
In typical bureaucratic fashion, our public sector has instead polluted our inshore marine resources, which are the foundation of our tourist industry, rather than deal with the waste in our gullies, while leaving us, the public, to deal with the flooding.
Round and round we go . . . .
Source: Nation
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