Free Willy
Dear TomHa,
Just watched this program on national geographic about Costeau's ocean adventures, a documentary about the current state of marine life. Apparently, there had been a new work on a new form of pollution: acoustic pollution. As we all know, whales navigate and communicate via sonar waves, thus implying that they have ultra sensitive sense of hearing. Thus, as we human began building roads and railways along the coasts and also mega ships and ultrasonic aircrafts with their sonic booms, we are actually affecting these poor whales. A fodder for thought isn't it?
Hence, as we watch TV at night, or even, listen to the mp3s at night at full blast, are we actually affecting the bats that are flying around us, helping us catch all those undesirable pests? As we trek through the wild, in a self-imposed journey of self-discovery, deluding ourselves that we are only leaving behind footprints and taking away nothing else, are we actually doing harm to the natural environment just by being there? Afterall, we are the invaders, aliens to these communities which would have been so well left undisturbed.
Did you know? One of the reasons why limestone caves are actually collapsing, is due to the increased in human visits which led to more carbon dioxide being released into the air in the limestone caves, hastening the corrosion of these beautiful caves...
Hence, is there even such a thing as eco-tourism in the first place?
Anyway, just a side note, the earthquakes and volcanoes news sidebar at the side is just there to help me gain more knowledge on current developments as I am taking a physical geography module. Although I am freaky, I am still not that freaky... And oh ya.. do Google Earth Sudan... Whatever little thing that we might be doing, at least it is better than nothing...
Sedikit sedikit, lama lama jadi bukit!
2 comments:
if don't let tourists visit limestone caves... then the natives will harvest the limestone from the caves to sell mah. even worse
Human beings are essentially a part, a creation of Nature. We owe our very existence, survival, development and advancement to who else but HER (Ibu Nature la, not Bapak God)
So, human visit forest, isnt that the same as monkey visit forest? Every thing on planet Earth are essentially natural. the headlamps you so adore, the seaweed you so love to eat, the pokemon underwear you so like to wear, these are all constructs of human technology isnt it? But arent Humans part of the natural world?
Isnt the intellectual advancement of a dominant species part of Ibu Nature's plan as well?
If so it is, everything that we pitiful humans do, is all bound to happen. There will be someone who says that we have to stop pollution. There will also be someone who only wants his pay rise but not give a damn bout the environment we live in. There will also be someone who complains about why all this is happening.
This just has to happen. There's no stopping the momentum of human advancement.
So you go ahead and enjoy your limestone caves, bask in the comfort of your LT7A airconditioning, suntan using artificial Sun, burn your forests, smoke your cigarettes, do your self-discovery trips, climb your Kinabalu, shit in the Himalayans.
These things just have to happen.
You think just by stopping our visits to limestone caves will cause the limestone to stop reacting with CO2, continuing hoping.
People will eventually feel the urge to see limestone caves, go online in the comfort of their aircon homes, search Google images for some pictures to awe at. But as all this is happening, Google folks are working their ass off in their cryogenic environment, munching Chinese take-out from their canteen packaged in environmentally unfriendly styrofoam boxes, slurping their Pepsi-Cola which produces dunno how much industrial waste each year just to satisfy you softdrink junkies.
And after viewing all these
pictures of limestone caves, you decide to email it to your friends, but as bandwidth around the world is no longer able to accommodate the spike in information size these couple of years, the demand to send these 5MB high definition photos would spark off further development of fibre-optics technology (or even better) and start laying submarine cables across the world's greatest oceans. Then these construction works would further add to your acoustic pollution to your cute little i-want-free-sex bottlenose dolphines living in the south Atlantic ocean.
So how's that for being filial to Ibu Nature. Perhaps we need to strip to our leopard skin undies and dance around a campfire chanting "huga jaga huga jaga" to finally be 1 with Nature.
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