Аннотация: Visit of Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin to Rostov-on-Don on October 2, 2020 and intellectual paradoxes. The note.
Visit of Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin to Rostov-on-Don on October 2, 2020 and intellectual paradoxes. The note.
After the end of the Great Patriotic War in the USSR, a policy of large-scale afforestation (reforestation, forestation) was carried out in a number of regions, including in the South.
What was the meaning of this policy?
While intensive agriculture is developing, large areas covered with forests contribute to the preservation of the fertile soil layer and have a beneficial effect on the climate.
The large-scale afforestation policy has yielded results.
In interaction with a rational urbanistic policy, with the policy of developing educational institutions of higher education, a huge Botanical Garden appeared in the city of Rostov-on-Don - in the center of the city, and significant tracts of urban forests, groves - on the outskirts of the city.
But a new time has come - after 1991. Mayor Mikhail Chernyshev appeared in Rostov-on-Don. Long but unsuccessful proceedings unfolded after a sharp reduction in the area of the Botanical Garden. And the reduction of the areas of urban forests and groves remained without even special attention of the state and the public ...
And at the beginning of the 21st century in Russia, the nationwide service of foresters was eliminated, and appropriate changes were made to the Forest Code.
But now 2020 came. On October 2, 2020, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin arrived in Rostov-on-Don.
According to the media, the main topic of his trip is the development of combine harvester construction (harvester production).
In addition, the Prime Minister promised to provide assistance in overcoming the consequences of large-scale forest fires in the Rostov region.
Here we approach to an important point - to what has been known for several centuries. The development of agriculture is closely related to the policy of afforestation (reforestation, forestation), with the policy of forest conservation.
It is one thing to give money from the deficitous budget to support combine harvester construction (harvester production) and to overcome the consequences of fires.
Another thing is to raise the question in principle: about the erroneous nature of the amendments made to the Forest Code, which led to the elimination of the national service of foresters, about the return to a large-scale policy of afforestation and forest conservation.
Moreover, there is a reason for this - dust storms began in the Don region. What is a dust storm? This air currents blow off the fertile soil layer, as a result of which the soil degrades. If the soil degrades, the harvesters are not needed ... As for fires, it is much more effective to take measures to prevent fires than to compensate for the consequences of fires ...
In general, the allocation of money from the deficitous budget - it is one level, and the principled approach to the policy of afforestation (reforestation, forestation) and forest conservation, to the Forest Code (to forestry and other legislation) - it is another level.
You can also direct your attention to less ambitious - but important for Rostovites - topics.
Inspect that part of the Botanical Garden, which was given for construction, draw conclusions, give instructions. The botanical garden is also useful for the development of agricultural science and agriculture.
Inspect those areas of urban forests, groves that were given for development, express a principled position on this matter ... May be, you will put on the first level the interests of a huge city, its population, the interests of forest conservation, environmental interests... And the selfish interests of those who receive income in the construction sector should be relegated to the background.
In general, there are many problems of very different levels.
Signals - large-scale fires and dust storms - they show, that the time has come for people with broad-minded thinking, capable of effective large-scale political action ...
The time for candy, gingerbread and carrots from a financial bag is coming to an end ...
In the interval between meetings, it would be useful to resolve issues with the Rostov Botanical Garden, urban forests and groves - to solve in the interests of forest conservation, in the interests of nature conservation, in the interests of the townspeople and the huge, increasingly overpopulated metropolis (the city of Rostov-on-Don ) ...
And in order to create positive legal traditions - to bring to a positive conclusion the consideration of the case of the Rostov Botanical Garden ... To take out famous persons from the Duma depths, taking them by the political ear, and to present them to the Sun of effective investigations.
In this note, we do not raise the question of the need to change an urbanistic policy - will it not to contain a too large a volume of a large-scale political tasks?
October 3, 2020 07:36
Translation from Russian into English: October 3, 2020 08:20.
Владимир Владимирович Залесский 'Визит премьер-министра Михаила Мишустина в Ростов-на-Дону 2 октября 2020 года и интеллектуальные парадоксы. Заметка'.