Not Really a Mainstream Media Guy BUT!!!!!

[johng]

I came across this article today and although I have seen it with my own eyes in Negril it was difficult to read in black and white. Generally I don't pay too much attention to the Main Stream Media but the facts seem undeniable??


http://www.weather.com/news/jamaica-...beach-20141003

Tell me it ain't true!!!

[negrilal]

The beach has been getting narrower and more sloped ( near Travelers and Ansels) in places for the last 20 odd years. The last couple of years the beach has gotten wider and less sloped in the sloped areas. In fact the beach looked the best I have seen it in about 10 years when I was last there in Feb 2014.

[Kahuna3]

This film clip, from '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea', was shot on the beach in Negril in 1953.

Take a look at the sand, the beach the trees. Then make up your own mind about Negril beach erosion.

[goldilocks]

From the article: "But in many cases, scientists say allowing shores to retreat or bolstering beaches with vegetation and restoring wetlands could be smarter. Last year, Cuba razed seaside buildings to restore shorelines to something approaching its natural state."

Exactly, can't just keep building and cramming more people on the beach. let nature take care of itself - nature doesn't care about profit. Negril needs to market to eco travelers who appreciate nature and are gentle on the planet.

[Kahuna3]

So, 'goldilocks' are you proposing that there be a 'means test' for people who visit Negril? Maybe it could be done at Customs.

ie;
Q1. On a scale of 1 to 10 (with '1' being 'I don't give a shyte'), how much do you appreciate nature?
Q2. How gentle are you on the planet? a) not gentle at all b) sort of gentle c) gentle d) really gentle e) really, really gentle

By definition, unless you swam to the island, nobody who flies commercial to get there would pass Q2 - all of that bad carbon from the big airliners, you see.

BTW, isn't the term 'eco traveller' an oxymoron? All these eco people flying around the planet to appreciate nature and consuming hydro carbons when they could just stay home in their cold houses and eat raw - local.

Sorry, I'm techy today . . . here's why, Nov 18th! Sheesh - bring on global warming!

[goldilocks]

No, I'm saying stop trying to create South Beach on the 7 mile. Those of us who "give a shyte" do our best to live gently where ever we may be.

[johng]

Hi Goldilocks,

Don't know when you first visited 7 mile beach but I first found it in 1975, not too much difference from the 20,000 leagues under the sea clip. I read somewhere that back 20 -30 years ago the Jamaica Government realizing what Negril would be bought 50 mil square acres of land between Negril and Lucia for development. The only sad parts about it are that as a result South Beachification lots of beautiful land and sea have been negatively impacted, but many local people haven't gained much either. Seems like Butch Stewart who was the originator (at least in Jamaica) of the all inclusive boom that struck 7 mile plus much more was the really big winner buying beachfront property, paying minimal labor rates and building in many cases the South Beachification it has become.

[Kahuna3]

'SouthBeachification' ?? Really?


South Beach


Negril

[johng]

OK Kahuna3 you are right. No comparing Miami and Negril. Stats from Mainstream Media 1980 (40,000) visitors to Negril Beach, 2010 (400,000) visitors. Negril has not yet become South Beach which is a great thing. South Beach dates back to 1910, 104 years ago. Negril was virgin back in the 1970's 44 years ago.

The point that those who really care about the future of Negril Beach is that a consensus of right practices and levels of conservation have to be incorporated and maintained to save the beauty that is there.

Like Cap says don't shed a tear for the past but save your tears for the future cause at the current rate walking Negil Beach becomes more difficult every year!!

[Kahuna3]

Like Cap says don't shed a tear for the past but save your tears for the future cause at the current rate walking Negil Beach becomes more difficult every year!!

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Where did I say that I don't care about the future of Negril? You must have assumed that because I dared to question the Hypocrite, Gore-ist dogma of the 'Environ - Alarmists'. I care very much about the future of Negril, brother. I always have and always will, until the day I die. I also care profoundly about the environment as a whole. As a mountain biker, I spend a lot of time gloriously deep in the woods, ensconced by nature - streams, trees, bird song, the wind sighing through the leaves, the dirt, the mud and the rocks. And I am as blissfully happy there as I am walking the beach in Negril.

But I'm not one to blithely accept the herd-raving of the Chicken Little-ists. I read, I watch, I question, I reason. Then I come to my own conclusions. I wish more people would do the same rather that swallowing the whole climate-change enchilada. One doesn't need to subscribe to the tenets of the new religion of 'Environmentalism' (and it is a religion) - to care about the world we live in, although followers of the faith will brand you a 'Denier' (Apostate?) if you dare question anything. There is absolutely no questioning the beliefs of this new religion, and in that way it is truly a faith.

You say it's getting difficult to walk the beach. I saw in another post that you said you haven't been to Negril for a while. If you'd been there last year, you'd have seen that there was more beach to walk on than has been there for many, many years. Same thing goes for this year. How can the 'Environs' reasonably explain that? Difficult, I know, because it's not how the 'Book of the IPCC' has called it.

You also imply that, given another 60 years Negril will look like South Beach. If you really believe that, mi friend, you have a lot to learn about Negril.
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