Climate Change
Rising global heat has raised concerns globally on how to combat and reduce the excruciating rise in temperatures worldwide. Even as there is general outcry in climate change and its effects mainly on agriculture, marine life, animal and health there’s continued emission of greenhouse gases and careless waste dumping in the World.
We need to check on our humanity and attitude in order to bring this global risk to a halt. According to the United Nations Environment program, enhanced mitigation action is needed to prevent climate change effects on food security and health.
It’s through our human habits that lead to harmful emissions and the worst thing us that we’re reluctant about changing mentality to combat. Cities that are home to 55% of global population or 4.2 billion people are responsible for up to 70% of human caused emission.
The results are seen every day and seem scary, in Kenya climate change has really affected pastoralist communities farmers and the whole country at large .examples are drought, Lake Bogoria and Lake Victoria rise of water levels, poor harvest due to change in rainfall patterns there reducing the farmer output in production. The climate change related calamities exercabate socioeconomic challenges and inequalities.
Globally by 2050s over 1.6 billion people living in over 970 cities will regularly be exposed to 3- month average temperatures reaching at least 35 degree celcious. The gaze has now shifted to the COP27 coming up in Egypt will developed nations who are big effluents emitters chat the path to change a move that will steer developing countries to adapt to?. This is an indicator that we have to brace by going direct to action oriented approach.
President William Ruto stressed on tree planting which is a strategy that other leaders before him talked about from time to time but did not achieve the expected result. The question remains, what new insights into the issue does he have in store to beat the deadlock? Kenyans should also move swiftly to answer the president’s call by being personal ambassadors to climate change mitigation through the daily activities that they do right from proper waste disposal, recycling plastics and conserving domestic environment.
Inculcating a culture of tree planting at home, to school going children, maintaining gardens and tree spaces in schools, churches and in the respective communities is the way to go.
By Tabitha Yatich and Abraham Ong’uti,
Rongo University.
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