Mangroves (Source: Wikimedia Commons)
"Climate" has become an Orwellian term. Tagged with "climate", "global warming" or "climate change" are obscured facts, distorted and placed in misleading correlations.
The world has always been a pretty insecure, not quiet little place. The climate was subjected to diverse variations. If you recapitulates ancient creation myths, so this report of fearsome gods wars, collapse of the firmament, the bursting of the sky, more sun, deluges. In comparison with such perils klimamythologischer times we are doing well still excellent overall.
Of course, were and are some areas (whether A, B, or CO2) less secure than others. Always have. The precarious places count (t) s z. Example, always and anywhere in the world in areas close to the sea. Things are different today: Today, the climate is called.
Also, is hardly the talk of deforestation, over-exploitation and environmental destruction of all kinds, or even of hunger, poverty and an unjust global economic order - no, always reliable and raises the increasing climate change alleinge out as causes of all effects.
In relevant reports mainly from distant countries you are consequently hardly bother to analyze factors carefully and name, so keep to no more on: Climate change!
The word "climate" rapidly become a global Sheepdog, the einhegt the flock of sheep and there drives where you want them: in Hab-eight position in free thinking climate.
Typically, a report of the Bonner General-Anzeiger from 06/12/2010 with the pathetic title "Vietnam fighting against the floods. With German support, the Southeast Asian country braces for climate change impact contrary. "We are talking about a Vietnamese family of fishermen farmers, involuntary Kronzeugin of" climate change ", who lives directly behind a barely existent earth dike at sea. The poor living and Bauernhäuschen a typhoon in 1997 made an end. "Climate change" should complement inwardly attentive reader now. The second life began the family of peasants Son Xa then "on the other side of the dike ... close enough to the sea, where he collects at low tide crabs and fish catches ... that are often flooded his onion fields and the water comes up to the new house, the rain has destroyed half the crop this year, gnaw the increasingly violent storms on the dike and like cancer gnaw the mangrove belt, does not frighten him. 'The water is indeed back ... This is my country, this brings me nothing away.' Yes, from climate change he has ever g ehört. 'But most people in the village do not worry about it' ... That in the fight against climate change here soon a project for the protection of the dike and the mangroves should be started, of which he has heard anything yet. "
For this short quote we can see some information that they pull out with tweezers and put them into a new, more realistic context: There is talk of a poor family who has her house behind a rather primitive earth dike adjacent to the coast line and there their work pursues: fish, crab picking, some agriculture.
Not since the advent of the climate debate good dyke construction was dangerous life at sea, survival. All over.
1991 there was a severe flood in Bangladesh, which resulted in 300,000 deaths and seven million refugees were killed. The media then reported, not yet under the spell of the keyword "air" objective about the background:
Bangladesh is the second most densely populated area country in the world and is almost at sea level in a giant river delta that coming from the Himalayan mountain rivers Ganges, Brahmaputra and Mehgna form before they flow into the sea. This has, an enormous fertility of the soil by the entrained sediments result, on the other hand, Bangladesh is also the most ravaged by floods country in the world. I remember to have read those days in the daily press that the government of the embossed by a population explosion had left the country poor families land in flood-prone regions. The people were aware of the risk, but the poverty left them no alternative but to accept cheap land in vulnerable areas. A similar, born out of necessity fatalism, sounds also in the attitude of the Vietnamese family in the said report.
Scinexx white in a recent article about the problem of poverty in Bangladesh to report:
"But necessity is the mother of invention: Countless small farmers colonize the chars, the super flat, more or less large river islands, which are formed from the fertile sediments of streams each year, which brings the water from the Himalayas and the upper reaches of the rivers themselves. A dangerous undertaking, because these chars are at high water course to the most vulnerable areas that have to be abandoned under circumstances in lightning speed ... "
Even without the keyword "global warming", the media reported in 1991, the high number of fatalities was complaining because Bangladesh having an extremely hohge population density, quasi be it one dominated by water plains and the people are not in at the regularly occurring floods higher can escape gelegegen areas: The country has only one mountain ...
2010, this is of course everything else. They talk of global warming, the increasingly destructive effects of hurricanes on the coast and therefore irons closer relationships just flat: Meanwhile namely dams on the upper reaches of the Ganges emerged. Daurch achieved less and less freshwater mangrove forests of the coast, the salt content of the water increases as a result of what can die, the trees ...
Ever since the verhehrenden tsunami of December 2004, the world, which have mangroves for whitening function: to protect the coastline from the attacks of the sea and storms, besides its function as a nursery for all sorts of species of fish and crabs.
But so worth protecting Mangovenwälder were and are in favor of tourism and Schrimpsfarmen cut: To make way for resorts and tourists who want to enjoy a direct view of the sea and the crab industry, which in itself takes more and more coastal, shallow water in claim and after few years, the unused zones leaving poisoned and must move on.
2010 will be dealt with under the heading of "global warming" all this. Which brings us to the above mentioned report of the General Anzeiger about Vietnam again. Also here are mangrove forests protected and dikes are built, but not as yet until recently, from environmental, species, and coastal protection reasons or diking of insightful knowledge of the character of the sea and the danger of living near the lake - no environmental reasons!
It is grotesque, as the article on climate change tells stories, speculated about the result of an alleged temperature increase in the last 50 years by 0.7 °, but at the same time accurately identifies why the Vietnamese coastline is threatened and find the hurricanes more and more attack surface: deforestation of the mangrove forests, more and more land is being used by inshore shrimp farms; thus uses a displacement struggle, more and more people have to find their livelihood in the mangroves themselves, which are characterized more and more vanishing, and overfished.
The GTZ (German Technical Cooperation) would like to fight the effects of climate change there, ie afforestation. This is commendable.
However, I am in favor of the use of the word to make "climate" or "climate change" for a time under penance, to a certain sobering up has occurred. In reporting back the use of correct terms instead is practiced. When the offense is per un-word "climate" ... each one euro in the reforestation of mangrove forests! So climate change would be to create!
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Tags: Bangladesh , climate change , mangrove forests , Vietnam
Oh, only there were more journalists who so accurately and steadfastly resist the brainwashing sauce!
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