Raja ram Sir, You are a one man Chat GPT. YM On Fri, Apr 12, 2024 at 7:50 AM Rajaram Krishnamurthy <[email protected]> wrote:
> There’s no such thing as truly ‘pristine’ nature anymore > > 8 February 2016 > > By Rachel Nuwer, > > Features correspondent > > > > Alaska may be remote, but it is still affected by air pollution that > envelopes the globe (Credit: Getty Images)Getty Images > > Alaska may be remote, but it is still affected by air pollution that > envelopes the globe (Credit: Getty Images) > > Humanity has changed the world so much that it’s hard to find anywhere > that’s still untouched. Do we need a new way to define ‘pristine’? > > > > The great 19th Century naturalist John Muir often lamented humanity’s > widespread desecration of nature. “In the noblest forests of the world, the > ground, once divinely beautiful, is desolate and repulsive, like a face > ravaged by disease,” he wrote. “The same fate, sooner or later, is awaiting > them all, unless awakening public opinion comes forward to stop it.” > > > > Muir’s advocacy helped spur the US Congress into passing the National Park > Bill in 1890. The patches of pristine places protected by that bill were > meant to be set aside forever, providing generations to come access to > nature. > > > > Given the scope of humanity seven billion-plus members reach, it hard to > imagine anywhere is untouched > > Most scientists today would not claim that the majority of national parks > around the world are pristine, however. Rangers and recreation-goers alike > regularly crisscross those swaths of wilderness. Their ecological > conditions are carefully managed and their animal populations are monitored > and even adjusted. Indeed, a major reason national parks exist is “for the > benefit and inspiration of all the people,” as one piece of US legislation > put it – not to serve as virginal tracts safeguarded from humanity. > > > > > > Given the scope of humanity’s seven billion-plus members’ reach, it’s hard > to imagine that any spots of wilderness remain completely free from our > influence. Climate change, for one, is already having global impacts. > “We’re undoubtedly influencing the entire planet,” says Justin Adams, > global managing director for lands at the Nature Conservancy. “So on one > level there’s nowhere left on Earth that’s not touched by man.” > > > > As this column explored in 2014, there are almost no unpolluted places > left either. Air pollution blankets the planet, while debris plagues the > deep sea to the Gobi Desert. It’s even difficult to find a spot that > remains free from human noise for a mere 15 minutes. Our historic reach > also seems quite profound; sophisticated tools like lidar – a remote > sensing technology that uses lasers to examine the Earth’s surface – are > revealing that even the seemingly remotest patches of tropical rainforest > bear millennium-old human scars. > > > > “There is increasing recognition that few places on the planet are > actually pristine,” says Richard Hobbs, an ecologist at the University of > Western Australia. “Most places are now impacted by human activities, even > if this is only indirectly.” > > > > If the definition of pristine is relaxed a bit, the outlook improves > > However, if the definition of pristine is relaxed a bit to exclude our > indirect, far-reaching influences as well as ancient historical baggage, > the outlook improves. “You have to be somewhat pragmatic with this because > if not, you’d come up with nothing and say that everything has already been > destroyed,” says Lars Laestadius, a senior associate at the World Resource > Institute’s Forests Program. “That’s not constructive.” > > > > Few, if any, places remain untouched by humanity's footprint in some way > > Following this thinking, a researcher with a more liberal outlook might > say that an old growth secondary forest – one that was once cut down but > has since grown back – counts as pristine. “In Romania, for example, I’ve > looked at old growth forests that local people say are pristine, and I’ve > seen stumps,” Laestadius says. “But they don’t appear to have affected the > dynamics of the forest at all, so I’m reluctant to eliminate a forest like > that just because there’s been some logging.” > > > > “Ultimately, whether a place is pristine really depends on who you ask,” > adds Erle Ellis, a professor of geography and environmental systems at the > University of Maryland, Baltimore County. > > > > > > Most researchers are satisfied to settle on a definition of pristine that > includes habitats free from obvious signs of human activity > > Given the ambiguity, most researchers are satisfied to settle on a > definition of pristine that includes habitats free from obvious signs of > human activity. Those places should also contain plant and animal species > that experts would expect to be there in the absence of hunting, logging, > habitat loss, invasive species and other human-driven threats. > > > > Alamy The Republic of Congo contains large tracts of 'hinterland forests', > which are almost untouched > > The Republic of Congo contains large tracts of 'hinterland forests', which > are almost untouched > > The most sure-fire way to evaluate if a given place meets those criteria > is to visit it in person and conduct extensive ground surveys, but this > takes a tremendous amount of time, effort and resources. So usually, > especially for larger areas, an analysis conducted with remote sensing and > GIS data has to do. > > > > Alexandra Tyukavina, a geographer at the University of Maryland, and her > colleagues recently undertook such studies. First, they used all available > Landsat high-resolution satellite imagery from 2000 to 2014 to build a map > of global forest loss and gain. From there, they narrowed their dataset > down to tropical forests in South America, Africa and Southeast Asia that > had not been disturbed for at least the past 12 years and that had no > recent regrowth that would indicate disturbances over the past 20 to 30 > years. (Fire-prone boreal forests and tundra must wait for a future study > that distinguishes man-made from natural fires.) The old growth primary and > secondary tropical forests that they were left with are no younger than 40 > to 50 years old; are a minimum of 38 square miles; and are at least half a > mile from the nearest disturbed or recently regrown area. > > > > > > Getty Images Parts of Alaska count as pristine, at least according to the > more liberal definition used by some researchers > > Parts of Alaska count as pristine, at least according to the more liberal > definition used by some researchers > > The results indicated that the northeastern parts of South America, > including Suriname, Guyana and French Guyana, hold the most untouched > tropical forests in the world. “Almost 100% of forested areas there are > still pristine, and rates of loss are pretty low,” Tyukavina says. > Additionally, Peru, Venezuela, Colombia and Republic of Congo also all > contain large shares of hinterland forests, as the researchers call them. > Although all of these places may have some minimal disturbances – a tree > cut here or there, an indigenous group using the understory for hunting – > to Tyukavina they are an accurate representation of what pristine means > today. > > > > Additionally, Laestadius and his colleagues have conducted their own > analysis using satellite data and have identified places in Canada, Alaska, > Siberia, Borneo, Central Africa and the Amazon that count as pristine in > their books. They rank a habitat as pristine (they use the word “intact”) > if it shows no aerial indication of disturbance and has a minimum area of > 123,500 acres. > > > > Some pristine places are threatened with imminent annihilation > > Some pristine places are threatened with imminent annihilation, however. > According to Tyukavina’s analysis, Cambodia, Myanmar, Laos, Angola, Papua > New Guinea and Paraguay are currently losing pristine forests at strikingly > high rates. Indonesia, Malaysia, Central African Republic and Cameroon > aren’t far behind, either. Other countries have already completely > exhausted their remaining pristine landscapes; the last of Rwanda’s old > growth forests fell in 2013, while less than 500 acres of pristine forest > remains in Bangladesh, Benin, Burkina Faso, Haiti, El Salvador and more. > > > > > > A few other places not included in the analyses may hold on to their > pristineness simply because of their remoteness or inhospitality for human > existence, Hobbs says. This likely extends to areas covered in ice – the > tundra, the poles and the high mountains. Adams adds that parts of > Australia’s Outback may also qualify, and expansive deserts are good > candidates as well. > > > > As for the oceans, they are affected by the same atmospheric pollution and > climate change that blankets the land, plus there’s the ever-present > problem of garbage and microplastic. “The ocean is unified,” says Maria > Damanaki, global managing director of oceans for the Nature Conservancy. > “You cannot escape from what is happening on the planet as a whole.” > > > > Untouched sea? No, there is nowhere like that on the planet ; Maria > Damanaki > > Excluding pervasive global impacts, however, some of the world’s largest > no-take zones – places where fishing is banned – are likely the most > pristine marine spots left, especially the ones that occur furthest from > the mainland. Included on that list are areas in the Pitcairn Islands > Marine Reserve, Easter Island marine park, Palau National Marine Sanctuary > and the Kermadec Ocean Sanctuary. Boats are allowed in those places and > people inhabit nearby islands, however. “Untouched sea? No, there is > nowhere like that on the planet,” Damanaki says. > > > > > > No one can reliably forecast how much of the world’s remaining pristine > habitats – by whatever definition – will continue to exist in the future. > But Hobbs points out that to value pristine wilderness over all other > nature would be a mistake. Non-pristine places like parks “are generally > more accessible than so-called pristine areas, and hence are the ones that > humans will interact with – and likely value – most,” he says. “They also > make up the most of our planet now, and they still contain a huge and > wonderful array of life.” > > KR It is 2016 news; 2024 Denmark says there is no place on land; but some > part of sea may be pristine. K Rajaram IRS 12 4 24 > > ---------- Forwarded message --------- > From: Markendeya Yeddanapudi <[email protected]> > Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2024 at 20:44 > Subject: Rejuvenation-Vs-Disparagement > To: ggroup <[email protected]>, thatha patty < > [email protected]>, <[email protected]>, > Satyanarayana Kunamneni <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, > viswanatham vangapally <[email protected]>, Rajaram > Krishnamurthy <[email protected]>, Murthy, Jayathi Y < > [email protected]>, Nehru Prasad <[email protected]>, Aparna > Attili <[email protected]>, Anisha Yeddanapudi < > [email protected]>, Kunamneni Satyanarayana <[email protected]>, > Ramanathan Manavasi <[email protected]>, Padma Priya < > [email protected]>, Usha <[email protected]>, Ramu S < > [email protected]>, Ramamurti PV <[email protected]>, tnc > rangarajan <[email protected]>, dr anandam <[email protected]>, > Krishnamacharyulu Nanduri <[email protected]>, Manda chiranjeevi das > <[email protected]>, APS Mani <[email protected]>, Abhishek Pothunuri < > [email protected]>, Abhinay soanker <[email protected]>, > A. Akkineni <[email protected]>, Neeraja Nadikuda < > [email protected]>, <[email protected]>, kantamaneni > baburajendra prasad <[email protected]>, < > [email protected]> > > > > > -- > *Mar*Rejuvenation-Vs-Disparagement > > > > Today, you cannot find nature which is completely healthy and free. We > have polluted and poisoned our Heaven. Still if you are lucky and if you > enter a forest thick with flora and fauna and if you do not allow fear and > caution to cloud your perception, you get greatly rejuvenated and > reinforced. You get caught under the wonderful spell and can relive > temporarily the rapture that once was Troposphere, Biosphere, Hydrosphere > and Lithosphere. Every organism sends smells of rapture and the forest > sings wonderful music. Musing becomes music and rapture. You may dance, if > you are not a patient of chronic inhibitions imposed on you by your social > mores. You may even feel the Theosphere that once pervaded the surface of > our earth as rapture. The Theosphere simply does not allow any > discouragement and disparagement. > > Unfortunately the disease economics has taken us all, and we are busy > destroying nature and eliminating rapture itself. We have become chronic > critics and we simply cannot accept rapture without the cartesianed > mechanization of perception. The waves of rapture cannot be divided and > analyzed and rapture becomes the whole which refuses mathematical > reduction. In free and lush nature, the laughter of the six months baby > lasted the full life of even hundred years. There was the wonderful > ‘Rapture Multiplier’, which spread like the wave of an electron. A single > electron becomes an infinite wave that spreads everywhere when needed. May > be the electromagnetic waves of the Universe spread like rapture waves in > the free and healthy nature of Earth, which must have been total Heaven or > the Abode of God. The photons always photon-synthesize as abstract waves of > diversity. > > As it is we are now living on earth as life forms, because of the > particular Thermodynamic situation we need. If the temperature becomes, say > 1000c, we cannot live as the life forms we are now. I do not know, > actually we do not know but can only speculate, whether we mutate into > monsters that destroy and completely revel in the Darwinian hell we may > create. When we create desperation as normalcy, we may kill each other and > eat each other. It happened during famines in human history. > > As it is, in the colleges and Universities we kill each other with marks > and grades. The Professors and Libraries have ousted nature from teaching > as enlightenment. There is more evaluation and market pricing of the work > in the Universities, than appreciation as a particular flow of perception > and understanding. Money and market decides the quality of perception as > presentation. There is simply no element of rapture, which once sprouted as > revelations and discoveries continuously from nature directly. Every > University today is a beggar for grants from Merchants, who call themselves > business tycoons. Or the government bureaucrats evaluate and decide and > grant. Free nature and the spell of revelations from nature simply are not > there. Most Universities have mainly the MBA course and simply do not have > the Faculty of Philosophy. They are just big Kirana Shops that sell Degrees > and Diplomas. > > Today even in some Social media forums where the members do not meet each > other, I find insult fests. The verbal assaults lost all restraint. Let us > contemplate on the effect of the words we use. Encouraging, appreciating > and reinforcing words automatically increase self confidence and self > esteem. The Forum will brim with positivism. But in the insult fests in > some forums indulged in by a few members creates very bad feelings and the > words radiate negative waves. My appeal to such members is to go to any > place where there is some flora and fauna, close the eyes, made the mind > blank and just feel the messages from the life forms. They can get cured of > negativism and stop sending messages with appalling words, in the insult > fests. > > I really dread that these insult fests portend the total hell into which > the economic destruction of nature is taking us into. Filthy words just > spread filth only and they are now creating waves of filth in some forums. > No member really needs support with filthy words hurled against the > opponent. Filth is filth. > > YM > > > -- *Mar* -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. 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