This should raise concerns, environmentally, because it isn’t normal, to see snow here, and the weather is getting whacked out all over the planet at the same time too, translated…
Do you recall that influx of people who’d gone up the mountains to see the snows?
The news as well as Facebook had, broadcasted this event nonstop for twenty-four hours, the temperature dropped to an all-time-low, and all of a sudden, it’s, as if everybody’s waiting, for the freezing point to come. In the various regions, the influx of people had gone, to chase the snow falls, and, no matter how cold it’d gotten, they’d bore with it, just to capture that never-seen-before footage. Then, the various snow scenes were, posted online, and, the excitement, the joys from it lasted, longer after the snows had melted. And still, in the times after the televisions and Facebook were, flipped off, it’d made a lot of people whose lives relied on the greater environment, feel the coldness of the snow from the inside.
Did you follow the news brought on by the cold weathers? From the northern, to the southern regions, the tea plantations, the fruit trees such as oranges, persimmons, pears, the strawberries, the tomatoes, as well as the fishes raised on the western parts……all suffered, great losses. Some had directly affected the harvest before the New Years, the frozen strawberries needed to be plucked off immediately; the young fishes all, froze to death, causing a dent on the gains of the next seasons; some still had yet to wait to make sure, that they’d had to, wait for a bit, to see if the fruit trees in their plantations were, affected at all.
As the cameras turned, we’d arrived to the shrimp and fish farms in Kaohsiung. My friend told me, that a week before the drop of the weather, he’d started, cleaning up the fish raising ponds, he’d gotten it all done, and he’d escaped, the losses. But those around him, well, they weren’t, so lucky as he, the fishes killed by the drop in the temperatures don’t float back up to the surface until three to five days later, and, after they’d fished up all the dead fish, they can only stack them by the side of the road, and those that can become fertilizers, they’d called someone to haul it all away in the shortest time, otherwise, they’d needed to, wait for the trash collectors. Then, they can only pray, that they clean everything up as fast as they possibly can, otherwise, germs would grow, causing even bigger problem in the re-growing of the fishes that’s to come next.
Up to February second, the Department of Agriculture estimated that the damages from this cold front cost up to 3.7 billion dollars, and, of the fishing industries, the damages were up to three billion dollars, the milkfish, the snappers, as well as the clams, are the biggest areas of the losses. And, although the Department of Agriculture had, set up an emergency task force to cope, and offered cash assistances, and lowered the percentage of the loans, but, other than the making up for, and the making up for, what else, can be done?
After the losses, some of my friends started talking of an agricultural insurance.
Turning these camera lenses, back into the cities, my friend saw the frost covered strawberries, and thought about how he might be able to, reproduce the way that the ice wines, and make these fruits into preservatives. And now, the agricultural community smiled, even more bitterly, because this sort of changes in the weather isn’t normal at all, and, it’s not set up, to be fitting, for the strawberries grown in Taiwan to weather through, the strawberries are going to suffer through the frosts, then, as the cold fronts leave, the temperatures would rise back up, and the strawberries would become like the ones, taken out of the freezers, becoming ripened too soon, and started molding next.
In the era where we’d be constantly, tested by the extremes of the weathers, when the records of the temperatures hit record highs, and the precipitations, the floods increased, other than sighing with the news reports, do we have, an even more active way of coping with all of this?
So, this, is all caused by global warming, and, it still didn’t just happen, overnight, this is all a build up of events, because we weren’t careful enough with the resources we had, because our forefathers took everything in nature for granted, that, is why now, nature is fighting back and showing US who the boss is!