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VOLUME XXIV No. 20
Tagbilaran City, Bohol, Philippines
November 28, 2010 issue
 

Mother Earth Global Warming

 

GOOD morning to you all, again, how are you. Do you feel abandoned by God, just as Job did! Tell him how you feel, then ask him to help you, believe the truth about his love for you. It works for me, so I know it will work for you.

My Writings

These poems and words I have written Were a pleasure for me to write I'm a simple man who just loves the Lord If my writings help others to understand Then it's easy for them to realize that God is right.

In writing, to me it was a joy and pure fun The Lord spoke to me thru the holy spirit Without his help it would not have been done I would have sat with my pen it hand So I asked the Lord for help, he said just do it

You don't believe me my friend Well that your loss and my gain The can help you with everything All you need to do is to ask Remember what Jesus said, Ask the father in my name

We are very lucky to have such a friend The ones you hang out with are they really true But remember you can argue and fight with the Lord You can call him names or ignore him But his always there when you are feeling blue.

 

Our topic. – I know I keep coming back to global warming, but, if we are to survive as a people or a nation, then we must fully understand how this problem affects you as an individual. First, lets look at how we extract the cases already released in our atmosphere. For cases that have already been released, there are only very few limited options. Currently, one of the only feasible ways to separate the existing greenhouse cases already released into the atmosphere is to plant many, many more trees. Some of you may ask why? Well, trees absorb greenhouse cases and then release oxygen for us to breath. The moisture they release also creates clouds which reflect the harmful rays from the sun, you've guessed it, the ones that cause skin cancer, at the same time, they help control. Soil erosion and enrich the topsoil with the decomposing leaves and branches that trees produce regularly.

For really sufficient impact, we should plant not only millions of tees, but billions of them to maximize our carbon sequestrations ability on a per hectare basis. To bring together the necessary resources, I believe we need to make forestry part of our lifestyle and job. The forests that are planted must be profitable to create financial resources and to increase the enthusiasm of everyone involved. In order for us to sustain our forest planting activities, the forest should in turn be able to nourish and sustain us by using abundant sources of food and raw materials. Friends, for us to have economic returns from the forests we nourish and to solve the problem and global warming, we must practice forest farming. This is, to me a form of three storey-farming which integrates our present knowledge of agriculture and forestry. It's not new, the tribal minorities world wide, have been practicing it for centuries.

I believe the experts call it “rain forestation”. In forest farming, multi-purpose threes and plants are selected and planted. The first be planted are the canopy tree crops. These are trees which grow at least 20 meters when mature, we will call these the upper storey for the forest farm, they will thrive under direct sunlight. While host of these, I call them climax threes should be forest trees, multi-functioning tress can also be included, some examples of pioneering fast growing trees are CMELINA (cemelina arborea) Eucalyptus (eucalyptus declupta), the rain tree acacia (albizia saman) and falcatta (parathensis falcataria) some indigenous trees like red lavan (shorea negrosensis) and apitong (dipterocarpus grandifloris) said to be fast growing, indigenous species are I believe, are more typhoon resistant and more suitable for local conditions.

Livestock farmers can also plant fodder producing threes or fruit trees in between their livestock buildings. These trees will act as coolants to the farm animals, the cooling effect that each tree produces is equivalent to the cooling effect that 25 air conditioning units produce. Another important factor is that trees can directly recycle the voluminous animal manure into a major source of income. Livestock farms produce not only greenhouse cases, but also methane, a gas, now listen! That is three to four times more detrimental to our environment than carbon dioxide. By planting trees and other crops, the livestock farms would offset the greenhouse cases the farm animals produce. Global warming is a very real threat to us and all of mankind. We need to change our lifestyle and adopt means of livelihoods which are harmonious to nature. We only have one planet, so lets save it. I hope this has been of interest to you. Take care, see you next week.

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