The phrase evokes reminiscences of TV Christmas calendars and the previous days, however it sadly describes a particularly present and quite disgusting downside.
Fettemøg is the Danish title for a violent bloom of algal development within the seawater in fjords and on coasts, which may be seen as inexperienced, lumpy growths. Fatty manure happens when massive concentrations of vitamins are washed into the ocean from the encircling fields. When it comes to texture and color, it might most likely greatest be described as a blended pea soup.
Not precisely what a German vacationer goals of when planning his vacation on the Danish coast. Or others, for that matter. Nobody needs to wade by way of a vat of foul-smelling, cloudy soup to get out for a swim within the sea.
However, that is the expertise that you’ll have on many Danish coasts this yr, as a result of there can be fats dung like by no means earlier than this summer season. Within the fjords, but in addition on the coasts, this yr will most probably be the wildest fats dung yr ever, say the consultants in settlement.
They’re backed up by actuality. As a result of already now you may see the yellowish and inexperienced growths in lots of locations, even supposing summer season has solely simply began.
It’s most likely not an excessive amount of to name it a ticking time bomb for coastal tourism, an trade that’s of important significance to many areas in North Jutland. Though the bomb has been ticking loud and lengthy, politicians have didn’t do something efficient to keep away from the explosion, however maybe this summer season’s explosion will change that.
We all know what may scale back algae development, specifically a cease to fertilizer on fields close to the coasts. There are calculations from the Local weather Council that present that should you stopped utilizing fertilizers at fjords, coasts and streams, the issue would largely disappear.
It will not “simply” present tolerable circumstances for bathers and vacationers, the issues with nitrogen transcend all dwelling issues under sea stage.
However an answer to the issue can be expensive for agriculture, and that trade and its pursuits are clearly extra necessary than the tourism trade – and, furthermore, extra necessary than all of us abnormal Danes who get pleasure from swimming, crusing or simply wanting on the sea round us.
Maybe a summer season with probably the most algae-infested coastal bathing water is what is required for our flesh pressers to choose up the tempo.
Perhaps.
However up to now, the consideration of 1 career, specifically agriculture, has trumped every part else, and that makes it tough to place one’s religion within the fats dung.
As disgusting as it’s.
2024-06-21 17:18:56
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