Ranil
I’ve just bumped into this and thought it’d be of interest to you. Pl pardon me if you’ve already seen it:
http://www.grli.org/

http://www.thesundayleader.lk/2012/06/24/expanding-saltern-destroys-mangroves/
Expanding Saltern Destroys Mangroves

But our attitude in one aspect very much affects other aspects too. The over-protracted ethnic conflict exacerbates our environmental problems.

Dear Ranil,

For one thing, if that link provided us details as to how to counter the failure of green revolution, you should’ve put it in the article itself.

Unfortunately, that article too is very much like this one. The vision is grand, except there are no specifics, only far off ideals.

Consider,

A land where the rivers flow clean.

A land where citizens can breathe the air without being poisoned.

Reverse them and see how ridiculous they sound. That’s how you know you’re just stating the obvious. That’s how you know you’re just writing platitudes.

Anyway, judging by your last response to me on “Price of Inequality” thread, you have clearly started to hate me. So in order to avoid futher antogonizing you, this will be my last comment on this thread.

Dear Luxmy,

Myanmar is lucky to have an enlightened leader, I hope she will guide that nation away from the type global irresponsibility that we are demonstrating. The map above suggests that Sri Lanka is the worst country in the entire region to affect the Indian Ocean in such a negative manner. At time when regional and global responsibility is demanded, this map suggests that we have disregarded such responsibilities. I totally agree that oppression brings environmental carnage in addition to socio-economic carnage. It is also clear that it is the selfish and greedy who drive such oppression.

http://groundviews.org/2012/04/17/a-vision-for-our-nation/

IT is pity that you mingled the writers ideas with
“”””army-occupied North,Sinhala colonisation schemes in Northeast, demand for devolution of power by Tamils””””. And so on.
it is Diversion away to the subject,
this is asole responsibility of all Sri Lankans.
SRI LANKA BELONGS TO US,
TO all RACES, SINHALESE MUSLIMs, BURGERS MALEYS> CHINEES,THELIGU GIPSIES,too.
NOT TO THRE RULING JUNTA FAMILY.

THE article gives some information and message to the masses of sri lanka.
[ including to So called DRs,[ MSC PHD DDT TNT with two horns], and Law degree holding, glob totting, bogus, pompous,[sitting on their brains] politicos, AND PIMPS. Who did nothing at Rio, but wasted our money].
To understand and to get ready for future.
at least sombody must give a clue to act soon

LAXMY, And/ Or other friends Pls google the below topics.
you may find much details,

[Science, February 15, 2008], [ National Oceanographic Data Center.]
[Conservation Biology, October 2007.] ,[Marine Impacts KML ].

thanks

seruvila senarath.

“Investors must take responsibility for the results of the business that they do inside our country. It’s not just environmental consciousness, but also consciousness of possible long-term results.”

Social, economic and environmental ecology are intertwined so much !

In fact if you don’t have any real vision, try to restrict yourself to only stating facts. What can we possibly do with a statement like “We need to look at the toxins that we are exposing our population to in a critical manner.”, other than applaud it?

Dear Ranil,

My education? Oh, don’t take it personally that pointed out to you that rules that govern the evolution of DNA doesn’t work at any higher level.

About this article.

The point in this article is in the map? What does it say anything other than that “green revolution” sucks? Pointing that out might be enough in a newspaper article, but not in a thoughtful comment on a online public forum.

You don’t have a vision. Or rather, you have a vision but you don’t have details; specifics. I’d be perfectly happy if you said “We need to reduce the toxins level by 50% that we are exposing our population to by reducing substance X import by 23% and substituting the use of substance Y with substance Z.” Instead you say, “We need to look at the toxins that we are exposing our population to in a critical manner.” yeah, as if we didn’t already know that.