Dear lovers of the Jamaican environment and natural resources,
Jamaica has the best sites in the world to clearly see the past
and future impacts of global climate change, but these sites are
small and many of them have already been destroyed. The
remaining sites are fragile, could be destroyed overnight by
unwise development, and should be officially protected by our
government as a World Heritage site.
These sites are an irreplaceable educational and historical
resource that allow people to see for themselves the impacts of
global climate change and are of unique global importance!
Such sites that I used to know well may still remain in
Trelawney, St. Anns, Westmoreland, and St. Mary, and are also
very likely in parts of Hanover, St. James, St. Elizabeth,
Manchester, Clarendon, St. Catherine, St.Thomas, and Portland.
The link below shows a photograph of the site at Discovery Bay,
and a geological cross section and explanation of its
significance. Such information could be posted on signboards at
each of these sites, along with a map of such locations around
the island.
Leonie Barnaby, Environmental Advisor in the Office of the Prime
Minister, has promised to look into what is required to
officially propose such a designation. I believe this would be
the first World Heritage Site proposed for Global Climate
Change, the defining environmental and economic issue of this
century. Jamaica would show global leadership by doing so.
I would like to ask that you help this effort by sending
comments on this proposal to Leonie Barnaby at:
Best wishes,
Tom
Thomas J. Goreau, PhD
Honorary Research
Fellow, Discovery Bay
Marine Lab, Center for
Marine Sciences, UWI
Mona, Jamaica
President, Global Coral
Reef Alliance
President, Biorock
International Corp.
Coordinator, United
Nations Commission on
Sustainable Development
Partnership in New
Technologies for Small
Island Developing States
37 Pleasant Street,
Cambridge MA 02139
617-864-4226
Skype: tomgoreau
No one can change the
past, every one can
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