The world recently met to talk
about climate change in Berlin. The engagement is part of a new-found need to
deal with this challenge which threatens the survival of not only our
generation, but also the ones yet to take our place.
Climate change is one of the
subjects hardly known in Ghana, let alone discussed safe, of course, in
academic circles the outcomes of which do not come near implementation.
President Donald Trump even
dismissed the worrying trend as a ruse and therefore unworthy of his attention.
Perhaps with time, he would come to terms with what it entails.
Now the subject has come to us
in Ghana with the President and the Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration
Minister tackling it at the international level. It is time to move the subject
to the front burner for meaningful discussions and the necessary policy action.
Perhaps starting a conversation
on climate change in all the strata of the educational system would not be a
bad idea for a start. This can be moved to the public stage through public
education at local levels.
The subject should be broken
down to the understanding of ordinary persons on the streets so that we can
adopt a better way of dealing with the environment. This way, we would be making
headway towards reversing the challenges created by the abuse of the
environment and the effect of this on climate change.
The global village which the
world is makes one part suffer the negative consequences of what happens in the
other.
We, for instance, know how it
is the advanced industrialized economies which are responsible for greenhouse
emissions and how the fallouts affect all parts of the world.
With no frontiers for climate
change, the faux pas in human practices in one part of the world has devastating
impact in another.
The extremities of weather
patterns now being suffered in all parts of the world are attributable to
climate change.
The vagaries of the weather
have denied peasant farmers the ability to rely on old time methods of
determining rainfall patterns and other phenomena to assist them in their
farming practices. The climate change phenomenon is surely responsible for the
situation.
As the Foreign Minister
observed during her submission during the 9th edition of the Climate
and Security Conference in Berlin, the socio-economic impact of the phenomenon
can be seen in the areas of agriculture, health and general wellbeing of human
beings.
Certain species of fish are on
the verge of becoming extinct; their habitats at various times on the calendar
adversely affected by the ravaging climate change all over the world.
The world’s marine stock is
being threatened by climate change in an assortment of forms, a reality which,
of course, could adversely affect global protein and for that matter food
security.
Let the experts educate us on
the importance of planting more trees and generally having a green country.
The ice sheets of the world are
melting at an alarming rate and we continue to deplete the ozone layer, making
the dangerous rays of the sun to reach us.
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