The East African nation flies up to £1.3 million of freshly cut flowers to Europe each day but British, Dutch and Kenyan airlines have all grounded their flights from Nairobi since Thursday.Some 400 tonnes of flowers were due to be destroyed on Sunday, and from then onwards flowers and fresh goods will be destroyed each day that the crisis caused by the volcanic ash cloud continues.
Is there an irony in this?
Kenya can not produce enough food for the stomach but is able to generate 1.3 Million pound flowers per day — food for the Western Souls?
Food security issues are just political talk and about volcanic purses of dough for some!!
via Fresh goods for supermarkets rot in Kenya as volcano grounds flights – Telegraph.
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The perfect example of an ecosystem can be inferred from this volcanic activity. Links and diversity are the mainstay of resilience. In todays world, the roads and air traffic form the veins and webs that shuttle the life support ingredients from one extreme to another. The sad side, these new forms of connection do not have a life, they are dead. They are not able to morph into any other form besides what they are—- rigid. When they fail, the world will fail alongside it… we need to think of alternatives… as the planes start to fly into the unknown zones let it be known that life is more than just …our monetary needs…there is more to this than meets the eye..