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Recommended reading: “Hidden Nature: The Startling Insights of Viktor Schauberger.”

Sick water, ailing forests, climate changes, renewable energy, protecting against harmful effects of modern techonology, were things that Schauberger described and explained years before they came into center stage. Schauberger (1885-1958) was far ahead of his time. He pioneered a completely new understanding of how nature works and warned against global waste, the costly ecological destruction of our age, and also predicted global warming.

Schauberger worked by observing nature closely, its harmony and its flows. He directed his theories into radical new methods of working in energy-renewing ways. He was an intuitive who revealed an understanding of Nature that is hidden to the average person. Water in all natural processes is clearly identified as a “source of life” in his detailed studies.

Schauberger stressed the interconnectedness of all Nature. He showed that “highly ordered systems lose their stability when their environment suffers deterioration.”

He predicted that”a decrease of biodiversity in Nature would bring an increase in violence and a degeneration of spiritual qualities in the human community.” This confirms a recent blog posting (Jan. 29) which showed that kids who are deprived of natural settings manifest nervous disturbances which scientists are calling “nature-deficit disorder.”

Today we can read Schauberger’s words warning against costly ecological destruction and realize that we all have contributed to the problem environmental imbalances. Now, however, we can all choose to be part of the solution. We can preserve the environment that is around us.

Keeping Celery Pond in tact as a wetland, and saying “no” to a marina development plan is the way an advocate and friend of Celery Pond thinks. Environmental protection is vital to all life, including the life in South Haven. To think that taking a wetland will have no effect on its surroundings is no longer a thought that holds weight in communities who support sustainability and adhere to maintaining biodiversity.