The Implication of the Law of Ecology Means to the Environment We Live In
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| Figure 01, Qatar Mangrove Trees at Al Khor (image credit; Flickr) |
Insight
In the above picture (Figure 01) was taken
from Al Khor where Mangrove Trees are located at the nesting grounds of the
endangered green turtles as well as a protected conservation area of the
migratory bird species. The place is beautiful to look at in spite as we all
know where Qatar is in the Middle East. However, it was ratified with the
multiple international agreements with respect to natural conservation
openness and this is because of the environmental possibilism happening
throughout the country with the industrialization, urbanization and touristic
development has to continue threatening the country’s biodiversity.
Moreover, the implication of the law of
ecology in the country has paid with special attention concerning the
environmental development as one of the Four Qatar National Vision (QNV2030),
and the rest are human development, social development, and economic
development. With their efforts are trying to do the best they can if ever from
desert to green land as a tropical land, which cannot be happening because of
the weather and temperature.
The author is about 15+years in the country,
and one of those expatriates have witnessed with the fantastic development
throughout the nation and that is the right thing within the governance of
Qatar’s Emir who has the political will, the love to his country and his fellow
Qataris that can’t be denied of the patriotism he has done. In spite of
undeniable with the environmental pressure, still pursuing the conceptualize
greening space in most of the municipalities which were mounted to 1.284
million m2 in 2015 based on the Qatar Environmental Statistics (QES 2015
Edition).
Again, the author was such an impressed year
by year of Qatar’s development, but do you believe that the number of planted
trees, shrubs, and palm trees they have planted amounted to 171,450 in 2015
throughout the country, where which 10,717 were palm trees, 45,956 were
assorted trees, 13,726 were shrubs and 101,051 were other types of plants
according to QES 2015.
Ecological Law in Qatar Environment, Does it
Implied?
The author stands to agree with the theories
formulated by our beloved and known late Environmentalist Dr. Barry Commoner,
who made the arguments and stand for the four laws of ecology such;
Where
Everything Is Connected To Everything Else,
Everything
Must Go Somewhere,
Nature
Knows Best, and
No
Such Thing as a Free Lunch.
Furtherance let us define the term, Ecology,
to widen our understanding, in brief, this aspect. However, based on the
dictionary and quoted as “Ecology means
the study of the relationships and the processes which are linking living
things to the physical environment and the chemical environment.” Thus,
Commoners Four Laws of Ecology had explicitly developed the cohesive within the
ecological
aspects and simplifying generalizations that are already evident
and true with all the circumstances in the present generation which we have now
known to refer to the ecosphere that has been organized into a set of laws of
ecology, which the author has agreed upon.
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| Figure 02, Qatar Ecosystem in 2004 when the Author Came (image credit; Embassy of Qatar) |
Everything Is Connected To Everything Else
The author does agree with the first law of
ecology as we have one ecosphere on Earth and that’s true, which is referring
to all of the living organisms on Earth what might affect one, which generally
affects all like a domino effect within the society. The situations reflect on
whatever exists within the network throughout the ecosphere. However, these can
be simplified with the relationship between the different living organisms in
the environment and the populations and between populations increases the
physicochemical surroundings and behavior. An example of this theory is the
result of environmental
possibilism (with Figure
02 to Figure 03 development) evolution in Qatar concerning environmental
development, human development, social development, and economic
development visions in the competitive landscape. Thus, the ecological systems
explicitly similar cycles we have and often concealed by the effects of the
daily activities or the impact of seasonal variations and environmental agents
which are experiencing now and then like with Qatar’s temperature and weather
throughout the year. But the fact is, the economy of Qatar is one of the
productive economies in the Middle East with rapid growth in the construction
sector as you can see in the below image (Figure
03) and up to the present that includes infrastructures and buildings.
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| Figure 03, Qatar Ecosystem between 2014 and 2019 (image credit; Qatar Living) |
Everything Must Go Somewhere
The author does agree with this second law
of ecology, and as one of the examples can share is a renewable process using
the sewage treatment plant (Figure 04).
Whereas all collate sewage throughout the country has been treated for
irrigation purposes primarily to be used in the agricultural farming sectors,
landscape parking in the public areas, district cooling supplying the urban
development and sewerage fixtures (serve as Greywater) for flushing mostly in
the high-rise buildings in Qatar.
Whatever we have on Earth that has been
extracted is in the form of recycling methods and with the help of technologies
in today's generation, they are converted into different ways that will sustain
the demand for our daily routine, and perhaps everybody is enjoying it. On
the other hand, all wastes are being discharged into the environment we live in
without taking into account that everything we have has to go somewhere like
what the author has designed shown in Figure
04 into another perspective that can be used in the cycling process in
another form into the grid.
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| Figure 04, Doha Sewage Treatment Plant (image credit; Arcadis/Hyder) |
Commoner law clearly emphasizes that within
nature we live in or within the competitive landscape has no such thing we
called “waste” but recycling into a new form into the grid for our resources we
need whereas Figure 04 is another
example within the natural system. And this is the way to counteract the
prevalent notion we heard as a nuisance than something useless as “goes away”
but has been transferred into a recycling life process with a purpose.
Nature Knows Best
In the world of hypocrisy,
the humankind around the world is fashioned with the technological
innovations which have changed our life passionately and with
those notions intended to improve the quality of
nature whereas we are living with complete resource and one of
the examples are shown in Figure 03
for luxurious technological development.
However, Commoner says that with such change
in a natural system is likely to be detrimental to that system, which is our
environment within the negative and
positive aspects as we are experiencing in today’s generation.
This is because of the technological innovation and greediness has valuable environmental
impact that needs to be addressed with climate change as an
example. Nevertheless, the third law applies somehow. But most of them as part
of the law whereas nature is providing foods we need, the clothing we dress in
our daily routine, the shelter that we live and securing ourselves with values,
as well as the means of communication which are available to anyone in nature
that the author has to appreciate the changes in the ecosystem with
political will for a sustainable environment.
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| Figure 05, Mangrove Plant at Al Thakira, Qatar (image credit; Qatar Living) |
There Is No Such Thing as a Free Lunch
This law applies everywhere and to anyone whereas
you can’t be able to ask someone for free, but passionately we need to work
harder and harder to gain something that we need within the environment we live
in a world of hypocrisy.
Which, therefore, the equation must be balanced as we are doing and solving the
algebraic equation, whereas, in economics, it means with the Credit and the
Debit in the ledger spreadsheet that has to be balanced somehow otherwise
mentally ill into the psychiatric house.
Illuminating for the environmental problems
that we have created must be resolved accordingly so that either the upland or
the lowland areas will satisfy their needs. If within the government agencies
where the officials are practicing graft and corruption must be stopped and
passionately do the things according to the work you are doing for the common
good and following the rule of law. Therefore, whatever we owe to our nature
and someone must be restored and regain into a sustainable environment we are
dreaming of. Greediness, graft, and corruption must be stopped because there is
no such thing as a free lunch at all like what happened in the Philippines which
was molested the people by the oligarchs.
Conclusion
Dr. Barry Commoner, Four Laws of Ecology,
identifies the importance of the environment to us, and applies everywhere
passionately and therefore, with all the facts have shown with the examples as
the author has provided, again, the author stands to agree as a Chartered Environmentalist
(CEnv) and as an Environmental Advocate that there is no such thing as free
lunch. We need to take care of our Mother Earth at all costs, a similar
situation as we take responsibility and care for ourselves, not for greediness,
graft and corruption practices, but securing a sustainable environment for your
children in the future and the next generations. Figure 05 is one of the examples that even Qatar is desert land,
but they are trying hard to provide at all costs in planting Mangrove Trees and
greening the
country.
The Qatar government is aware of all the
risks posed by the climate change happening globally, with the ozone depletion,
drought, and desertification around the country, as well as the similar and the
interrelated environmental issues such as scarcity of water resources, industrial
and commercial pollutions, soil degradation, and marine environment pollution.
And with those expressed commitments, the confidence in the capabilities to
the study, discuss and analyze various aspects concerning environmental issues to
come up with solutions that promote in protecting the environment, preservation
of the country's natural resources and achieving goals towards sustainable
development.
Write-Up
References can be Read from this Links;
Gomeseria, RV; (2020, January);
"Desert Landscape to a Sustainable
Environment;” Journal of Management and Development Studies; University
of the Philippines Open University; Retrieved from; https://www.researchgate.net/publication/338295474_Desert_Landscape_to_a_Sustainable_Environment
Gomeseria, RV; (2019, January);
"
The Implication of the Law of
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To cite this blog / article paper; Gomeseria, R. V. (2019, May 18). Environmental Advocacy & Conservation “Personal Journal & Reflections.” https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/KV7J6
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