I’d read the online Guardian newspaper that Extinction Rebellion latest demonstration in London is to close down the centre to traffic completely for two weeks.
Many of the demonstrators are not the usual anarchists but mainly professionals or retired elderly.
The police are arresting many more of these peaceful demonstrators. In most cases all arrested have been previous law abiding citizens.
Extinction rebellion are forcing climate and species extinction to forefront of the general populations psychic.
I watched a YouTube video stating that we are too far gone and we are past a tipping point to reverse climate change?
I thought about this “have we really past a tipping point? “
From the beginning of time we humans have utilised and exploited natural resources for making tools, armour, weapons and for heating, light, ships and dwellings. More lately in accruing monetary wealth.
Prior to the Industrial Age world populations were relatively small. It’s only in the past 70 years has the human population got so large and the industrialised mining of fossil fuels has created the problem with the planet rapidly heating up.
Nature has the answers for us to replicate. Nature is economical with energy consumption and our fellow species use energy economically likewise. Us humans live frantic energy consuming lifestyles.
50% of the forced carbon we generate through the burning of fossilised fuels is taken up by nature, through vegetation, trees and the oceans.
For us to reduce carbon emissions and to sequestrate carbon we have to start by planting native species trees and mangroves.
Trees are going to be our saviour once the whole planet was covered in trees and vegetation.
Farming of land will have to be reduced and that land replaced by trees. Each human should make it his duty to plant a tree. We then become the custodians of each of those trees.
A far sighted Austrian intuitive forester looked at how water and trees create the energy of life the vortex! Natures way of creating natural equilibrium.
That’s what hurricanes do they create a huge vortex and act as heat exchanger and cool the planet down by an thermal interchange between the liquid (ocean) and a gas (atmosphere). Natures temperature control process.
Viktor Schauberger (1885-1958) had a deep understanding of the role of the Divine in Nature’s evolutionary process. He regarded water as a sacred organism.
He made an extraordinary contribution to knowledge of the natural world, intuiting what we now recognise as the quantum or subtle energy effects of water.
His understanding was built up from shamanic and experiential observation of Nature in the untamed Alpine wilderness.
His motto: “Observe and Copy Nature”. He was critical of textbook theory and the arrogance and lack of imagination of ‘experts’ and refused to go to college, believing that he would lose his intuitive gifts.
Schauberger was also gifted with engineering skills which are apparent in his environment-friendly technology and implosive energy devices designed to release people from enslavement to destructive sources of energy.
He is celebrated for his discoveries in the water sciences, in agricultural techniques and in the energy domain – which energies enhance and which harm life.
Schauberger provides us with a comprehensive and holistic approach to understanding Nature.
His insights form the foundations of what might be called a ‘science of Nature’.
He found two forms of motion in Nature: outward, expanding flow that is used to break down, and inward-spiralling which Nature uses to build up and energise.
We use the first to generate energy, which is why it is destructive to the environment.
Minute changes in temperature affect the outcome of an energetic process.
The balance between the attraction and repulsion of polarised atoms is the engine of creation.
Viktor Schauberger vividly described how our disdain for Nature’s ways will bring only environmental catastrophe.
His vision – humanity working within Nature’s laws – is the path we must urgently rediscover, if we are to survive.
Example of mans destructive ways of damming rivers and taking the life force out of flowing vortex.
Damming of the Douro River
The integrative assessment of river damming impacts on aquatic fauna was carried out in the Sabor River dam (Portugal). This dam created two reservoirs: primary and secondary.
Changes in water quality caused by dam construction and stream water impoundment were significant, marked by increases in temperature and electric conductivity downstream, accumulation of phosphorus and nitrogen in the reservoirs triggering the growth of algae and the increase of chlorophyll a, and drop of transparency.
These changes were aggravated in the secondary reservoir. The consequences of water deterioration for aquatic fauna were severe, marked by abrupt declines of native fish species and invasion of exotic species even upwards the reservoirs.
The ecological status determined from ecological quality ratios of benthic macroinvertebrate assemblages were also affected, changing from good-fair in the unaffected watercourses to fair-poor in the lakes.
Other environmental damage to the wine industry on Douro valley.
A massive hydroelectric dam project in Portugal’s most famous wine region is triggering conflict, as environmentalists cry foul over what they believe is a despoiling of the Douro river valley.
The dam’s builders counter that it will help the country achieve energy independence.
As for area wineries, they are split between those firmly opposed to the project and those working to ameliorate the dam’s impact.
The model for [economic] development of Douro based on viticulture, wine and tourism is incompatible with a network of dams to produce energy,” João Roquette, CEO of Esporão, a family-owned winery with vineyards in both the Douro and Alentejo, told Wine Spectator.
Portugal’s Alto Douro wine region is one of the most striking locations for viticulture on earth, with gnarled old vines planted on manmade terraces of schist rock, perched high above the winding Douro river.
Historically this has also been a poor region, but that has changed as the Douro wine industry has been revitalizedin recent years.
As the Douro’s table wines and Ports have brought the area new attention, wineries are increasingly focusing on tourism, opening hotels and restaurants.
UNESCO listed the region as a World Heritage site in 2001. According to UNESCO, the status was based on how winemaking has shaped the region over centuries, creating the terraced vineyards, small quintas and a cultural landscape that is an outstanding example of a traditional European wine-producing region.
Environmental groups are asking how the new dam fits into that landscape. It is currently under construction at the mouth of the Tua river, which flows into the Douro near the boundary of the Cima Corgo and Douro Superior regions, close to wineries such as Quinta do Tua and Quinta dos Malvedos, both belonging to Symington Family Estates.
EDP, Portugal’s largest energy corporation, won bidding for the project and, after a mandatory public-discussion period, began construction in April 2011.
Nearly four years later, the construction site is imposing. Mountainsides have been carved out and a wall of concrete blocks the Tua.
Environmental activists are demanding that the dam be stopped, even at this stage of construction, to preserve the area’s natural and cultural heritage. They object to the loss of the environment of the Tua Valley, as well as a century-old train line from the Douro river to the upstream town of Mirandela.
They point out that farmland will be submerged by the dam-created reservoir and that the influence of the reservoir on local weather could have a negative impact on nearby vineyards and olive groves.
EDP has rejected most of these arguments. Company executives point out that the Tua train line has not been used for years because it was unsafe due to poor maintenance.
The Portuguese national train company reports that the number of users would not support proper maintenance of the line.
EDP executives also argue that they will only fill the reservoir to an altitude of 550 feet, which will result in a limited loss of agricultural area—roughly 30 acres of vineyards and 183 acres of olive trees.
Alfeu Sá Marques, a professor of engineering specializing in hydraulics at the University of Coimbra, believes that the dam is an important part of Portugal’s efforts to become energy independent and use fewer fossil fuels.
The country has invested heavily in a network of windmills in recent years, but at night, when energy use is low, it is difficult to store the windmills’ excess production.
EDP plans to use that energy to pump water into the reservoir, creating a reserve that can be used for hydroelectricity later.
Sá Marques also believes dams can help prevent flooding.
Last July, heavy rains caused considerable damage in Pinhão, not far from Tua, and floods frequently affect downstream urban centers, including Oporto.
Executives at Symington Family Estates, which owns leading Douro wineries like Graham, Warre and Dow, which produced Wine Spectator’s 2014 Wine of the Year, have decided the best way to deal with the Tua project is to cooperate and try to reduce the impact.
Acknowledging that most of the harm to the landscape has already been inflicted, they have been working with EDP and Portuguese officials to ensure that permanent damage is minimal.
This strategy has already changed the project. Namely, most of the facilities for the dam will be underground, the length of high-tension lines within the Douro DOC region will be minimized, and lighting will also be reduced.
Other wine producers in the region strongly oppose the construction, including the owners of Esporão, whose wineries include Quinta dos Murças, and Muxagat.
Esporão’s Roquette believes the new reservoir will increase humidity in the area, which will lead to more diseases such as powdery and downy mildew in the vineyards.
But he admits that it’s impossible to predict until the project is complete. That uncertainty might be what scares Douro residents the most.
The major problems with these large dams is the ecological aspects and reducing the flow and life giving vortex of the river.
Remember the far sighted Austrian intuitive forester looked at how water and trees create the energy of life the vortex! Natures way of creating natural equilibrium. Mankind has to quickly learn how to live and exist on the planet aligned with nature. Otherwise nature itself will destroy us!