> > From: "Dr.Nandkumar Kamat" <[email protected]> > To: goanet <[email protected]> > Subject: [Goanet] Appeal to CM , Goa to introduce the bill on Khazan > land management (draft enclosed) > > Dr. Dr.Nandkumar Kamat: This matter is related to Goa's ecological destiny.
You don't see Pyramids in Goa because they were built in a different > manner-horizontally. > vjp: Brilliant. This is a point that anyone worth their salt must work with in their talks, writing, brain-storming, etc. Dr. Dr.Nandkumar Kamat: The first impact of sea level rise in Goa would be > the erosion of Khazan > bundhs. This is massive geoengineering work-end to end the bundhs run 2000+ > Kms. and this feat is equivalent to building several Pyramids. For example > the outer 12 kms long bundh along Cumbarjua canal which runs from Agacaim > to > Corlim. Four metres wide and six metres high it needed mud worth half > million cubic metres. All this was done manually by several Gaunkaris over > decades. > The rising sea and higher tides would submerge 7-8000 ha. land and displace > 100 thousand people from 40-50 villages. > vjp: This cannot be refuted. And I do not even mean via scientific conjecture, but by the fact that one should feel this in ones bones, as in seeing the capillary system of Goa being hurt and destroyed--to have an effect on ones being at all levels, including the bhutas, the sanghik and the dharmik. If one has a relationship with the land other merely relieving oneself on or for that matter on tree roots--one would feel it. Dr. Kamat's observations above should be regarded as sacrosanct. Treat them as such. venantius j pinto
