Vhiki yangu yekutanga yeCapitol Hill Ocean

Kukura munzvimbo dzesabhabhu yeBaltimore, handina kumbobvira ndanyatsopedza nguva yakawandisa ndichitenderedza miviri mikuru yemvura. Pakusvika kunyanza, chimiro changu, sezvakaita vazhinji vevakandipoteredza, chakanga chisisaonekwe, chisisaonekwe. Kunyange zvazvo ndakanga ndadzidza kuchikoro pamusoro pokuti gungwa, iro rinotipa mvura nechikafu, rakanga riri mungozi, pfungwa yokupira nguva nenhamburiko yokuponesa gungwa haina kumboita sekudanwa kwangu. Zvichida basa racho raingonzwa rakakura uye rekunze. Kunze kwezvo, chii chidiki chandingaite kubva pamba yangu yakakiiwa nevhu muBaltimore suburbia?

Mukati memazuva angu mashoma ekutanga ndichipinda paThe Ocean Foundation, ndakatanga kuona kuti ndakanga ndisingaremekedzi sei basa rangu munyaya dzine chokuita negungwa. Kupinda kwegore negore kweCapitol Hill Ocean Week (CHOW), ndakawana nzwisiso huru kuhukama huri pakati pevanhu negungwa. Kukurukurirana kwese kwandakaona kwaisanganisira vanachiremba, masayendisiti, vanoita mitemo, nedzimwe nyanzvi, vose vachiuya pamwe chete kuti vazivise nezvekuchengetedzwa kwegungwa. Kuda kwemutauri wega wega nyaya dzemugungwa uye kushingairira kwavo kuita vamwe kuti vaite zvakachinja maonero angu ekuti ndinobatana sei uye nekugona kukanganisa gungwa.

Kuenda kuMarch For the Ocean paNational Mall

The Cultural Connections neEnvironment panel yainyanya kundifadza. Moderated naMonica Barra (Anthropologist paThe Water Institute of the Gulf), vanyori vakakurukura kubatanidzwa kwetsika dzevanhu uye kuedza kuchengetedza kwezvakatipoteredza, pamwe chete nehukama hwesymbiotic pakati pePasi nevanhu. Mumwe wevanyori, Kathryn MacCormick (Pamunkey Indian Reservation Living Shorelines Project Coordinator) akapa maonero akandibata zvakasimba. MacCormick akatsanangura kuti vanhu verudzi rwePamunkey Indian vane hukama sei nenyika yavo vachishandisa chidzidzo chehove. Maererano naMacCormick, kana hove dzichiita sechikafu chinoyera uye chikamu chetsika dzevanhu, ipapo tsika iyoyo inopera kana hove dzapera. Ichi chisungo chakajeka pakati pechisiko netsika chomunhu chakakurumidza kundiyeuchidza nezvoupenyu hwekare muCameroon. Mumusha mangu weOshie, Cameroon, 'tornin planti' ndiko kudya kwedu kukuru kwetsika. Yakagadzirwa kubva muplantain uye zvinonhuwirira zvakanakisa, tornin planti chinhu chikuru pazviitiko zvese zvemhuri nenharaunda. Apo pandaiteerera kuchikwata cheCHOW, handina kukwanisa kuita asi kushamisika: chii chaizoitika kana nharaunda yangu isisakwanise kurima maplantains nekuda kwekunaya kweasidhi nguva dzose kana mishonga inouraya zvipembenene? Chinhu chikuru ichocho chetsika dzaOshie chaizongoerekana chanyangarika. Michato, mariro, kugezeswa kwevana, kupedza zvidzidzo, kuziviswa kwasabhuku mutsva zvaizoshaya tsika idzodzo dzine revo. Ndinonzwa sokuti pakupedzisira ndinonzwisisa kuti kuchengetedzwa kwetsika kunoreva kuchengetedza kwezvakatipoteredza.

Cultural Connections uye Yenzvimbo Panel paCHOW 2018

Semunhu anoshuvira kubatsira, dhiraivha yangu yagara iri yekuti rimwe zuva ndiite shanduko ine chinangwa uye inogara kwenguva refu munyika. Mushure mekugara paCultural Connections neEnvironment panel, ndakafungisisa pamusoro pekuti rudzi rweshanduko yandinoyedza kuita, uye nzira yandiri kushandisa, inogona kutorwa seine mubatanidzwa. Panelist Les Burke, JD, (Muvambi weJunior Scientists muGungwa) akasimbisa zvakanyanya kukosha kwekufambiswa kwenharaunda kuti vabudirire kusingaperi. Yakavakirwa muBaltimore pedyo nekwandakakurira, Junior Scientists muGungwa inogonesa vanhu vanobva kwakasiyana magariro ehupfumi kuti vaongorore pasi pemvura vachiwana ruzivo mune sainzi, tekinoroji, engineering uye masvomhu (STEM). Dr. Burke vakati kubudirira kwesangano iri kwakakonzerwa nekubatanidzwa kwakasiyana-siyana kwarakavambwa. Kubva pamatsotsi akakwira kusvika pakusawirirana kwemagariro nehupfumi, hachisi chakavanzika kuti Baltimore haina mukurumbira mukuru — izvo zvandinoziva. Zvakadaro, Dr. Burke akaita nhamburiko yokungwarira yokunyatsoteerera zvinodikanwa nezvinodikanwa zvevana kuitira kuti vanzwisise zviri nani chokwadi chezuva nezuva chepwere dzinokura munharaunda iyi. Nekutanga nhaurirano yechokwadi uye kuvimbana nenharaunda yeBaltimore, Junior Scientists muGungwa vakakwanisa kunyatsoita vana kuburikidza ne scuba diving uye kuvadzidzisa kwete nezvehupenyu hwemugungwa chete, asiwo hunyanzvi hwehupenyu hwakakosha sekutaura, bhajeti, uye simba re kutaura kuburikidza neArt. Kana ndichizogadzira shanduko ine musoro, ndinofanira kungwarira kusashandisa maitiro akafanana, nekuti nharaunda yega yega ine nhoroondo yakasiyana, tsika, uye kugona.

Panelist Les Burke, JD neni mushure mehurukuro

Munhu wese panyika pano ane maonero akasiyana zvichienderana nekwaanobva. Mushure mekuenda kuCHOW yangu yekutanga, ndakaenda kwete chete neruzivo rwakakura rwebasa rangu munyaya dzegungwa, dzakadai segungwa acidification, blue carbon, uye coral reef bleaching, asiwo nekunzwisisa kwakadzama kwesimba renharaunda yakasiyana-siyana uye midzi. kuparidzira. Kunyangwe vateereri vako ndevechinyakare kana vemazuva ano, vakuru kana vadiki, kutsvaga nzvimbo yakafanana pakubata vanhu ndiyo nzira inoshanda yekukurudzira shanduko chaiyo. Aimbova musikana mudiki murima pamusoro pekugona kwake kushandura nyika, ini zvino ndinonzwa simba rekuti hongu, mudiki ini ndinogona. zvishoma kuita kusiyana.