PICKING SENSE OUT OF NONSENSE
Dr Anjani Ganase, marine scientist, wonders about the wisdom of destroying a protected marine ecosystem, the only one in Trinidad and Tobago, with a strategy to recreate it sometime in the future. She responds to the press conference of the Minister Stuart Young, and representatives of Sandals, the Government’s business partner, which was held on November 26. “Nature refers to all the animals, plants, rocks, in the world and all the features, forces and processes that happen and exist independently of people , such as the weather, the sea, mountains, the production of young animals or plants, and growth” (Cambridge Dictionary). There is a fundamental misunderstanding of the meaning of nature. Despite humankind’s infiltration into nearly every ecosystem and eco-space on earth, there is need to preserve as much of the natural world. Our air, our climate, our food and everything needed to advance us, comes from nature. With nature comes biodiversity; the number of organisms ...