In the face of natural phenomena such as Cyclone Yaku, we must take into account that nature and its cycles must be respected, highlighted, on La Mula TV, Juan Torres Guevara, senior professor at the La Molina National Agrarian University (UNALM).
In the ‘Al Filo’ program, Torres Guevara pointed out that we have to make a paradigmatic and epistemic change in relation to these natural events.
“The exits, engineers, are no longer enough, they have to be natural. Nature must be faced with nature. We must respect the channels”said.
The UNALM professor pointed out that watershed management is an alternative to large dams. In this regard, he mentioned that there are major dam failures, such as the Aswan in Egypt.
Torres Guevara explained that this type of output is not enough because “It is a matter of seeing the nature of the cycle in this case of water”.
“I still heard former President Kuczynski say that Peruvians were so lazy because we let the water go into the sea. Today everyone accepts that the water from the basins has to reach the sea because it is a cycleit’s not just water, it’s sediment, it’s fish,” he said.
“Everything is circular, there is even talk of a circular economy. That Piura river has to reach the sea, we cannot divert it or damm it, enough is done with invading it,” he added.
On the other hand, regarding the Olmos project, he pointed out that “the desert has its cycles.”
“The enemy in the desert is water because you have to know how to handle water in the desert. If you don’t know how to drive, you salinate it,” she warned.
“You have to be very careful with the desert. The desert is a natural ecosystem, we have not made Sechura, Sechura is like Zahára, they are ecosystems that are part of the global climate balance,” he said.
In an interview with Javier Torres, the UNALM professor specified that expressions such as “El Niño strikes back” should not be used, since they are natural phenomena.
Regarding the coexistence between human groups and natural areas, Torres Guevara pointed out that at some point we have to accept and leave some areas of Piura, for example, where the river follows its natural course.
“It is no longer enough just to increase the walls, to dig to deepen the river bed. That is not so simple, even more so in a context of climate change“, he pointed.
In this regard, he warned that solo we have 35% of nature left on the planet and we have to take care of that 35%, but we also have to take care of nature.
“Let’s not forget that there have been 5 extinctions on the planet, there are many who say that in the sixth we leave“, he pointed.
On La Mula TV, Torres Guevara explained that Cyclone Yaku is a low pressure cell. “We are in a low pressure cell, which is what has generated this displacement of hot water,” he said.
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