Respect shouldn’t be earned. Its owed to you as a human being, especially by those who have power over you in some way. Disrespect in an uneven power dynamic is bullying.
"التشجير ليس رفاهية"
التشجير مهم جدا لتقليل درجة الحرارة في المدينة، الصورة توضح انخفاض درجة الحرارة 15 درجة مئوية في شارع مظلل بالاشجار بالمقارنة بشارع بدون اشجار في احد المدن الكندية.
Residents require access to natural breathing space just as they require shelter.
We call on authorities to halt the construction projects in Wadi AlBuhair and revisit plans to protect it as natural space for future generations.
Read the full letter: https://t.co/XcW7A4sb3G
Hamad town is interesting too. Its borders are shaped by the rocky interior on the east and shoreline villages on the west. It's on sloping land once filled with dilmun burial mounds. Easy to see how changes to this geography contributed to recent floods near Al Lawzi.
Not all these changes are in the past. Buhair Valley, a beautiful natural area, is currently in the process of being bulldozed to make way for development.
You can easily recognize old Hidd apart from the reclamations by just looking at the road structure in maps. Original Hidd has a road structure that is shaped by the shoreline and natural features of the OG village. The roads in the surrounding reclamations are perfect grids.
Take Bilad Al Qadeem, the roads seem to twist and turn with no rhyme or reason today in contrast to perfect grids on the nearby reclaimed land. Look back to 1969, you can see the road twists to avoid parallel irrigation channels and water springs.
Even with artificial land, borders of reclaimed land follow former natural shallow water boundaries.
Economically, deep water reclamation is far more prohibitive in cost. We are fast approaching full reclamation of all shallow waters around the main islands.
In younger generations, there's a pervasive feeling that the country is devoid of nature. That was a policy choice: we bulldozed springs, the valleys, the channels, the hills, the mounds, the sea, and the swamps. Yet, nature & vestiges of it continue to dictate what can be built.
honestly idk what country bahrain thinks it is. everything is expensive. the average salary of a bahraini cannot comfortably afford housing or schooling. even groceries are now ridiculous.