An Inconvenient Truth
http://www.climatecrisis.net/blog/
This blog site raises the issue of climate change - through the recent documentary of Al Gore "An Inconvenient Truth", I wonder if it will be shown in Amman? We understand exactly what he is talking about - it is becoming very, very hot too soon after the Spring, and the May temperatures seem to be increasing with every passing year. My garden doesn't like it one little bit - pansies and peonies are not looking so well.
This can only have one catastrophic result for the future - excessive water usage - in a country that is currently ranked among the top ten countries of the world deficient in water resources for its own citizens.
So, sorry pansies and peonies - I am going to let you die - you are being replaced with plants that thrive in the desert and grass will be replaced with stone.
My life is changing and so is my city. I remember Amman in the eighties, when clean air wafted in through my window; a clear radiant blue sky crowned a gradually growing and developing city in stone all by itself in tandem with the lay of the land and its environs; a dry and pleasant summer during which the heat was dampened by a cool breeze and numerous plants that have grown in this semi arid environment for centuries gave beauty to inner courtyards and city gardens - of particular note the bougainvillaea, honeysuckle, jasmine and pots of geraniums and herbs of all colours and varieties.
Ammanites have to wake up to a changing reality, Mother Nature is not happy - we hardly want to see our beloved city become a dusty desolate place with tumbleweed roaming its seven hills and seven valleys. Yet all this development in the form of gated compounds, glass towers (that need to be cleaned with water, I presume) resorts and unwanted five star hotels that wreak havoc on our fragile environment does not appear to take on board the seriouness of the water issue - and one day soon may well be seen as opportunist, commercially dubious, and an environmental resource wasting disaster - another inconvenient truth?
Water, water is NOT everywhere - we simply don't have a drop to spare. J
This blog site raises the issue of climate change - through the recent documentary of Al Gore "An Inconvenient Truth", I wonder if it will be shown in Amman? We understand exactly what he is talking about - it is becoming very, very hot too soon after the Spring, and the May temperatures seem to be increasing with every passing year. My garden doesn't like it one little bit - pansies and peonies are not looking so well.
This can only have one catastrophic result for the future - excessive water usage - in a country that is currently ranked among the top ten countries of the world deficient in water resources for its own citizens.
So, sorry pansies and peonies - I am going to let you die - you are being replaced with plants that thrive in the desert and grass will be replaced with stone.
My life is changing and so is my city. I remember Amman in the eighties, when clean air wafted in through my window; a clear radiant blue sky crowned a gradually growing and developing city in stone all by itself in tandem with the lay of the land and its environs; a dry and pleasant summer during which the heat was dampened by a cool breeze and numerous plants that have grown in this semi arid environment for centuries gave beauty to inner courtyards and city gardens - of particular note the bougainvillaea, honeysuckle, jasmine and pots of geraniums and herbs of all colours and varieties.
Ammanites have to wake up to a changing reality, Mother Nature is not happy - we hardly want to see our beloved city become a dusty desolate place with tumbleweed roaming its seven hills and seven valleys. Yet all this development in the form of gated compounds, glass towers (that need to be cleaned with water, I presume) resorts and unwanted five star hotels that wreak havoc on our fragile environment does not appear to take on board the seriouness of the water issue - and one day soon may well be seen as opportunist, commercially dubious, and an environmental resource wasting disaster - another inconvenient truth?
Water, water is NOT everywhere - we simply don't have a drop to spare. J
posted by joladies at Thursday, June 08, 2006
1 Comments:
Dead on. I can't believe how many new water prolific buildings have sprung up in Amman since I was last here-I echo your post in mine: Ozymandias at www.huttonian.blogspor.com
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