The Earth is Like a Mirror

Seeing from above, the earth is like a mirror.
You feed rice, it grants you golden waves of rice.
​You sow seeds, it yields you sweet fruits.
You pour clean water, it awards you fish and shrimps in abundance.
The earth is like a mirror, reflecting how we treat it, no disguise but truthfulness.
This is the sight of Taiwan now. We fill farms of fish and crops with loads of industrial wastes illegally, creating astonishing appearances in variety. All these could be processed in accordance with regulations. It is safe and reusable though it comes with certain cost. Taiwan is sloppy with loose law enforcement, along with pressure or involvement of legislators, so here you see a profusion of colors. All these will come back to us eventually through the food chain. 
What we see in the mirror is merely a warning from above.

Exploring Tainan’s mystical “Moon World of Magnificent Longci”

To the southwest of Tainan, there lies a mystical world known to few called Niupu, Longci. I have been visiting here frequently over the past two years to observe, recognize, learn, and unlearn what I had known in the past. 
Whenever I came to Niupu, Longci, there was always a Crested Serpent Eagle soaring in the sky. Sometimes, it flew through the valley around, and other times it was just a little black dot high in the sky. I wonder what it looks like if I saw this piece of land through the eyes of the Crested Serpent Eagle.
I can now leave the surface of the earth, roaming freely in a 3-D space, high or low, near or far. My scale of life extends from dozens of meters to kilometers. I can see more details of things. I can follow the ridge of a mountain or a river out of curiosity, and appreciate carefully the outlook of this land. As I am no longer seeing the earth from the perspective of mankind, I discover more landscapes and details that I could only walk through but never be able to see previously, realizing the limitation of my prior knowledge or the sharing of false information as well as ignorance in the past.
The natural landscape of Niupu, Longci is the epitome of the natural landscape’s evolution of the west plain of Taiwan. Here, both time and space are condensed into one area, depositing stories of the evolution of Taiwan’s landscape over the past millions of years. There exists an ecological epitome of the expansion of the west plain of Taiwan as well as biodiversity. There are signs of climate change and environment change at present and in the days to come, together with scenes of adaptation to the climate change. 
Here we have extraordinary terrain. The vast 340-hectare land is kept intact for its history as the location of Longci Ammunition Factory. Today, the factory has been out of business for years, leaving the whole natural and industrial landscape behind, a well-preserved example in Taiwan. The whole area is a badland commonly referred as Moon World. The badland is formed because of its ever-changing terrains, mudstone, green limestone, sandstone, and gravel deposits that are easily eroded, together with the unearthed shells and the release of salts. A variety of compositions formed the diverse mountains and valleys. The surface is scoured severely in the rainy season, but is extremely dry during the dry season. It has four distinctive seasons. The terrain changes drastically as the earth keeps rising.natural environment? ​

 There are Longchuan Anticline, Longchuan Fault, Gutingkeng Anticline, and numerous unknown blind faults. Hence, horizontally-packed geological lamination that is lifted and altered to almost 90 degrees, complicated cutting lines, fractured zone, and fault gouge can be seen. Gentle slopes formed by scoured soil from steep face of mountains can be seen from hills to the gentle alluvial plain. There are also taiga and savanna as well as Japanese silvergrass and bare land. Niupu Creek during the rainy season will become a grey, white river, and shrink to a tiny stream that forms a shallow water, a moisturized creek valley and totally dry riverbed in the dry season. Thanks to its ever-changing nature, a diverse environment is thus born with rich biodiversity. Further, since there was little man-made development, it becomes an ecological green ark of Taiwan’s west plain. Class-two protected animal Formosan Masked Civet, Crab-eating Mongoose, and Formosan Pangolin are commonly seen here along with numerous animals. There is also an old Mango tree with a girth over 440 centimeters, the largest in Tainan City.
Previously we only thought from the perspective of humans, not knowing, not understanding it along with ignorance and neglect. Furthermore, the government today granted permission to a construction of Landfill & Industrial Waste Management Center at the upstream of Erren River. So many places you could choose, and yet you chose a place at the upstream of a river in a well-preserved natural environment without pollution. Besides, choosing a site rich in natural and industrial cultural landscapes located on a geographically sensitive area that has landslide as the landfill site is something implausible in the advanced countries! The management and ultimate disposal of industrial wastes should be located nearby an industrial park’s industry chain. The idling lands at present or lands already polluted are the best, so you do not have to transport wastes all the way into the mountains. The old policies are insanely ridiculous. As long as it is not done yet, it is never too late to stop it. It should be designated as a geopark, or a natural preserve, or a national park. As such, I hereby call for considerations and actions of all. Tell more people, lobby officials and legislators. In the face of such splendid landscape, think about what you want to leave for kids, a glorious natural environment in abundance of Taiwan or a landfill full of pollution that destroys.