My heart feels heavy after all the footage and news I have seen of this natural disaster that hits Spain as a result of DANA, a weather phenomenon we have each year in this area of the world. But this time nature has shown her destructive force and suddenly us humans are not in control. We are nothing. More than 100 people dead and the damage is enormous.
What can humans do to prevent this event from happening again and to minimize the damage, as far as possible, since nature doesn’t let anyone control her.
Nature based solutions is what we need most. Humans need to work with nature, not against.
It may not help completely, but it will improve how we manage our land and water.
Last Saturday I participated in the watermodule of the Permamed PDC (Permaculture Design Course...I will share more about this course soon!) and – how is it possible – it started with quite heavy rainfall. Water is life, yes!
We were lucky and have been spared by what came next in Valencia and other parts of Spain (it’s not over yet). In Mallorca Portocolom has been affected. It was the start of DANA, the event when cooler north European air encounters warm air, especially evaporated from the Mediterranean Sea which is still warm from summer.
What are these solutions nature offers?
The hydrological circle is broken and need to be restored. Regenerative agriculture ínstead of the water-guzzling modern-day agriculture. Restoring the soils by adding organic matter, so that it retains the water better and the topsoil doesn’t immediately flows away. Regreening urban areas. Planting Trees and vegetation that evaporate water, cool off the land and hold the water instead of flooding. Design that slows the water down. These are some of the nature based solutions or measures that follow nature’s patterns. They have to be decentralized and involve each community.
I’ll definitely write and explain more about this urgent topic, which holds life and death, in the coming time.
Con Amor,
Eva
Photo: Valencia, 2024 (Horse has been rescued). CAS Int. on X.
☆evalunes 
Very sad indeed and it does not really happen every year, but once every 7 to 8 years that there is a major Dana, causing major floods and a lot of destruction and human loss. For the Valencia region it is kind of normal. The last major appearance was in 1957, causing 81 dead and a lot of destruction. We know about these disasters since 1321 and there have been 75 of these Dana occasions since then till 1957. In all media I read that climate change is part of the reason is this is being blown up to unreal proportions to keep feeding the climate hoax narrative. I hope people understand this.
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Yes, so sad. Yes it happened before, but not like this. Centuries ago we still had forests, less populatation and less human activities. I think it’s all add up, factors such as the broken water cycle caused by things as intensive landuse, like agriculture and massive deforestation combined with a sea that warms up due to a changing climate. It’s all together..Super sad. X
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