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Dear Readers and Fellow-Apes; 2008 was a Murky and Hapless Year! Let us hope that 2009 does not turn out to be even  More Murky and Hapless!

I intentionally did not wish you a Merry Christmas, because Christmas is another story for another Posting at another time; and I do not wish you a Happy New Year, since I believe that ONLY FOOLS ARE, OR CAN BE, HAPPY ALL YEAR ROUND. I do, however, wish all of you A GOOD YEAR! With a little Good in one's life, one can be a little happy, which is all one can ask for in one's short sweet dream one calls a life-time. BY GOD AND SATAN! 

A Jack of many trades and master of all; I am honest to the core and I hate lies, deceits, pretensions, hypocrisy, treachery, betrayal, and stoic compliance; and I despise – and actually pity – Human-Apes who follow-the-herd-or-pack

I expose and reveal the lies, deceits, pretensions, hypocrisy, treachery, betrayal, and blind, deaf, and stoic compliance, and Human-Apes who follow-the-herd-or-pack; I tell or write the truth; and I say what I mean and mean what I say

I fear nothing; least of all, death

If I must fear anything at all in life, then let me fear what I think and  know of myself; because, in the end, one’s knowledge and opinion of oneself is what counts most. All the world may think and believe one is such and such, but one knows one is such and such. Also, I like to look in the mirror and like what I see and know about me.

I invite comments, remarks, criticisms, and even insults – so long as they are straight to the point, in order for me to correct or adjust myself accordingly. What I do not welcome and won’t accept or tolerate is HORSE-SHIT!

Dear readers and felow-Apes; with every page, every report or article, every paragraph, every sentence, every word, and every letter; I thank you for taking the trouble and the time to read My Not-So-Humble Comments.

395: COASTAL EROSION AND SAND MINING III – Human-Apes versus Mother-Nature: Un-Limited Un-Natural Populations versus Limited Natural Resources
06 October, 2008

COASTAL EROSION AND SAND MINING III – Human-Apes versus Mother-Nature: Un-Limited Un-Natural Populations versus Limited Natural Resources

Gleaned from: IRIN-News/Plus-News Friday 3rd October 2008

BENIN: Coastal sand-mining to be outlawed

COTONOU: Faced with rising sea levels and coastal erosion caused mostly by coastal sand-mining, dredging and carting away free beach-sand for commercial and other uses, the government has begun a campaign to save its coastal sand by digging up sand inland, instead. But communities near these newly-created sand collection spots are fighting back. A farmer living on one of the river sand-mining sites told IRIN that they wanted their compensation to be clear and enough and that although they came from the countryside and they were simple folk, the state could not take their land just like that. They did not want any trouble with the government, but they did not want to be taken advantage of, either.

Disappearing coastal sand

In countries along the West African coast, rising sea levels linked to global warming – and boosted not a little by coastal sand-mining – have wiped out homes, hotels, roads, harvests. An increase in construction in recent years in Benin’s capital has driven up the demand for sand.

Dear readers and fellow-Apes; to avoid repetition, read 393 and 394 that is if you’ve not read them yet. And thank you. However, allow me to add only the following:

What effect will all this Coastal Sand-Mining along Oceans, Seas, Lakes, and Rivers, Etc, and in-land sand-dunes, all over the world – in conjunction with Global Warming, and in view of the fact that this is taking place everywhere on the planet – have on the world’s oceans and seas levels and the environment?

This is Human-Apes versus Mother-Nature – Un-Limited Un-Natural Populations vs. Limited Natural Resources – and my bet is on Mother-Nature; she always wins in the end, and she hasn’t lost a fight or a battle yet. Human-Apes may fool themselves into thinking or believing they won some, but I say: NO! They lost all, so far, and they will continue to lose until……

Actually, I don’t know whether to be amused or amazed at the way Human-Apes behave and act like Human-Lemmings in their mad dash for whatever at the expense of the very planet they live on – a mad dash unto death, destruction, probable cannibalism, and eventual extinction, and......a dead planet. Personally, I don’t see any hope for Human-Apes because, like I said before, when money and greed talk, morals and mores go for a long walk in the woods and get lost……intentionally.

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