This is all just a short report of us CSCF students going out to Alappad and understanding the situation alappadians are facing
A Short little explanation on how a coastal mining quarry can affect the ocean ecosystem and the community surrounding it
1. Land Degradation :
the main soul pourpose of a Sand mining quarry is to extract the minerals and extractable matirials and leave the
non useful part of the soil left back to the land .
2. destroying biodiversity
not only the lives of humans . Animals , birds , the very least spoken about and important microbials , and
coral life culture are affected due to the lack of habbitat and irregular soil particle
3. Acid Lakes
Due to the fumes and waste of machinery and the fuels and high concentration of useless impurities
a lake of acid is formed in the Quarry and damages the ecology around it.
4. Waste output to the ocean
like shown in the image above the the wastwe thate is left is being dumped into the ocean and affects
to the system of food chain i.e fishes and in a way affects us as when we consume fish.
5. natural disaster
the land sites form instability as for when the underground rocks and pillars are excavated and
creates a dipression in the region
in many cases, there have been reports of formation of sand dunes and also sand deposits
6. Social issues
social problems people loose generations of experience from the place. where the people who know their land
might not be able to experience a similar effect. Depression rises in the society as for the separation of the birth land
and also not being able to do the traditional culture.
7. Lose of jobs :
as the fish and the ocean ecology colapses the fisher community looses pleanty of jobs and this is for the citizens who have
dedicated thier lives for these scientifically accurate and efficiant procedures of fishing methodology . and the high end fisher
compaanies that have thier whole purpose is to distroy the nation prewailes .
8. Economically :
the price for the fishes would rise and add to the price rise of the middle class and common people ( and we will have to
pay a high price for the worst fishes).
These might not seem like a big difference for the people who are not affected by these but for the people who are affected by this
this plant would decide the fate of their future and their unique skills and unique knowledge
if allapad looses we all loose as a citizen of the country that couldn’t stand for its people .
#savealappad
#stopmining
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