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So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.
The Profile Zanzibar Age. 40 Gender. Female Ethnicity. that of my father and his father before him Location Altadena, CA School. Other » More info. The Weather The World The Link To Zanzibar's Past
This is my page in the beloved art community that my sister got me into: Samarinda Extra points for people who know what Samarinda is. The Phases of the Moon Module CURRENT MOON Writings
Poetry The Tree and the Telephone Pole The Spider I Do Not Know Their Names The Mouse Blindness La Plante The Moon Today I am Young A Night Poem Celestial Wandering Siren of the Sea If I Were a Dragon To the Dreamers Leave the Sky The Honor of the Oyster Return From San Diego War My Study Defeat A Late Summer's Night Of Dragons and Men Erebus The Edge of the World The Race Dragon's Spirit The Snake's Terror Spirit Island Metaphysics Metaphysica Transponderae Metaphysics and the Middaymoon Of Adventures in Foreign Lands The Rogue Wave: The Unedited Version Adventures in the PRC Voyage of Discovery Drinking the Blood of Goats Ticket for a Phantom Bus Os peixes nadam o mar Three Villages Far Away The River Weser Children I Should Have Kidnapped, Part I Let's Get You Out of Those Clothes Radishes Three-Piece-Lawsuit If Underwear Could Speak Croc Hunter/Combat Wombat
My hero(s) Only My Favorite Baseball Player EVER Aw, Larry Walker, how I loved thee. The Schedule
M: Science and Exploration T: Cook a nice dinner W: PARKOUR! Th: Parties, movies, dinners F: Picnics, the Louvre S: Read books, go for walks, PARKOUR Su: Philosophy, Religion The Reading List
This list starts Summer 2006 A Crocodile on the Sandbank Looking Backwards Wild Swans Exodus 1984 Tales of the Alhambra (in progress) Dark Lord of Derkholm Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? The Lost Years of Merlin Harry Potter a l'ecole des sorciers (in progress) Atlas Shrugged (in progress) Uglies Pretties Specials A Long Way Gone (story of a boy soldier in Sierra Leone- met the author! w00t!) The Eye of the World: Book One of the Wheel of Time From Magma to Tephra (in progress) Lady Chatterley's Lover Harry Potter 7 The No. 1 Lady's Detective Agency Introduction to Planetary Volcanism A Child Called "It" Pompeii Is Multi-Culturalism Bad for Women? Americans in Southeast Asia: Roots of Commitment (in progress) What's So Great About Christianity? Aeolian Geomorphology Aeolian Dust and Dust Deposits The City of Ember The People of Sparks Cube Route When I was in Cuba, I was a German Shepard Bound The Golden Compass Clan of the Cave Bear The 9/11 Commission Report (2nd time through, graphic novel format this time, ip) The Incredible Shrinking Man Twilight Eclipse New Moon Breaking Dawn Armageddon's Children The Elves of Cintra The Gypsy Morph Animorphs #23: The Pretender Animorphs #25: The Extreme Animorphs #26: The Attack Crucial Conversations A Journey to the Center of the Earth A Great and Terrible Beauty The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Dandelion Wine To Sir, With Love London Calling Watership Down The Invisible Alice in Wonderland Through the Looking Glass 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea The Host The Hunger Games Catching Fire Shadows and Strongholds The Jungle Book Beatrice and Virgil Infidel Neuromancer The Help Flip Zion Andrews The Unit Princess Quantum Brain The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks No One Ever Told Us We Were Defeated Delirium Memento Nora Robopocalypse The Name of the Wind The Terror Sister Tao Te Ching What Paul Meant Lao Tzu and Taoism Libyan Sands Sand and Sandstones Lost Christianites: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew The Science of God Calculating God Great Contemporaries, by Winston Churchill City of Bones Around the World in 80 Days, by Jules Verne Divergent Stranger in a Strange Land The Old Man and the Sea Flowers for Algernon Au Bonheur des Ogres The Martian The Road to Serfdom De La Terre � la Lune (ip) In the Light of What We Know Devil in the White City 2312 The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August Red Mars How to Be a Good Wife A Mote in God's Eye A Gentleman in Russia The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism Seneca: Letters from a Stoic | The River V Tuesday. 5.1.07 6:14 pm So you thought I was done talking about the river, didn't you?
No, I thought I'd say a bit more. You see, the combination of hydrological engineering, the development of Germany's coal industry, industrialization and its ensuing influx of pollutants into the river... all these things combined to cause the near collapse of the river's natural ecosystem. The ecosystem is important, and not just for people who like to wax on about environmental purity and other quixotic notions. The fish in the river provided a livlihood for many people-- some of these families had been fishermen for hundreds of years, and now their fish were disappearing. People had always relied on the river to take away their waste products, and for the most part it did... it took them downstream, where they affected other cities and people. In time, the pollutants in the river seeped through the groundwater and into the crops, so that the farmers turned out products that were full of poison. Then there are the normal things people like to lament, like the nesting areas for birds and the drop in species diversity, which from a purely humanistic standpoint might not be as important. The poetic or perhaps inherent, philosophical value of these things, if it could be calculated, should perhaps be introduced into the equation, weighted by the number of people who care about them. Nevertheless, this series of ecological disasters and disasters like them have been cited as reasons against damming and hydrologically modifying other world rivers, such as the Yangtze (the Three Gorges Dam was completed in 2006, though lots of peripheral construction remains to be completed). So what do you think? The Yangtze has long ravaged the valley with unpredictable flooding. There are many problem with navigability that makes the Yangtze a dangerous and unreliable shipping route. With the damming of the Yangtze, the Chinese have displaced over a million people, flooded several cities (including some with ancient burial grounds, relics, and noteable archeological sites). They have also put the Baiji, a nearly blind freshwater dolphin found only in the Yangtze [more] in danger of extinction, as the dam's presence has increased ship traffic, which can kill the dolphin and disturb its prey. There haven't been any sightings of a wild Baiji since 2004. (10 years from the start of the dam project) In my humble opinion... the Americans and the Europeans have lost sight of their own history in this matter. Too many generations have gone by for them to remember what it was like to live next to a wild, unpredictable river. None of their family members ever died of typhoid, cholera, dysentery, or malaria. Yes, it is a shame that there aren't as many salmon in the rivers of the Pacific Northwest as there used to be. I applaud the efforts working towards a remedy to that problem. But it makes it really hard to work on a problem like that while you are starving, dying, or living in abject poverty. It's much easier when you are independently wealthy and you live in Portland, Oregon. Think of Africa here. How disasterous would it be for the Africans to drain all the wetlands in Africa? Pretty disasterous. Well... probably not to the many savannah animals that everyone likes so much- they don't live in the swamp, they live in temperate grasslands. But to the "swamp ecosystem", it would be pretty bad. Ok, especially for the mosquitos. And tse-tse flies. And for the flatworms that cause schistosomiasis. Maybe those adorable hippos, the most deadly of all African mammals, would lose a little habitat. Crocodiles, perhaps. But how much better would it be if you could free sub-saharan Africa from the yoke of the "tropical" diseases?!?! How liberating would it be if you could free China from the ever-present fear of devastating floods? Here's Africa, brimming with natural resources, unable to get them to market because of horrible roads and hippo/crocodile/disease-filled rivers and you're saying, "Here, lads, here's some money. Don't use it for anything useful. Here's a scrap of food, it will last you until the next time we come by with the charity wagon." How can you sit there in your house on the former flood plain, watching millions of dollars of increased GDP float by you on the Rhine or the Elbe or the Mississippi... sit there with your rivers tamed, dredged, channelized, and dammed, and lecture the rest of the world on the importance of eco-system conservation?!!? Recommended by 1 Member 3 Comments. I see what you mean we need to start taking in account what we are doing to the eco system with all of our pollution. 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