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Re:
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/kyasanurs-ticking-time-bomb/article26093497.ece?homepage=true
details of the
kfd are available in
karnataka:state of the
environment report
1983-84,cj saldanha. centre for
taxonomic
studies,bangalore.1984.
from the info given
there we derive that there is a
correlation between
permanent pastures lost and the
spread of kfd,
correlation 95% , p less than 0.001
applying the students
t test to data given in
ramaprasad and kirti
malhotra.op cit.1984. land use
and water resources
table 5 and data for the increase
or advent of the
number of foci of kfd in
shimogha,uttara
kannada and finally in dakshina
kannada between 1957
and 1983. it is interesting to
note that after the linganamakki dam became
operational in 1953
the kfd was first detected in
shimogha in 1957.
it is clear that the
foci spread with the clearing of
the forests and the
shrinkage of the permanent
pastures and other
grazing lands with the advent of
dam building and
usurpation of pastures by submergence
and development.
from the abundant
evidence available and from
fundamental
physiological properties of forests and
ecological
considerations, including impact on the
health of human
beings like kfd and japanese
encephalities, as is
evident also from recent
newsreports in the
hindu, indian express and others
like deccan herald,
we must prevent the coming up of
hydro schemes having
the above impacts. we are in for
a lot of work.
this i wrote in 1999. In 2019 we see the terribly intensified destructive effects of modern civilization, a society of specialists in Karnataka hurtling all life towards Pralaya.
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Re: https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/the-message-from-the-ipcc-report/article35946913.ece?homepage=true
ReplyDeleteThis article is a big zero because it ignores my work on dams as the principal cause of many catastrophes befalling the wild man and his industrial revolution. In living in this world by his own will and skill, the stupidest peasant or tribesman is more competent than the most intelligent worker or technician or intellectual in a society of specialists- Wendell Berry In the Unsettling of America- Culture and Agriculture. See Ramaswami Ashok Kumar. 2021. PERFECT DESIGNS. Blogspot. Also see by the same author,
http://modernandnormal.blogspot.com/2006/09/modern-and-normal-civilizations.html