The
United Nations marked World Happiness Day 2016 with a call on young people to
take climate action.
A
release I shared on my blog generated interesting comments of diverse shades in
opinion. Whilst some have lauded the UN initiative, other questioned the
concept of an angry bird to drive the campaign.
However,
what caught my attention is doubts cast on the reality of climate change.
According
to Alan West of the Private Practice Law Industry, “Man Made Global Warming is
a MYTH pushed by the world's snake oil salesman to make themselves filthy rich.
The earth has been cooling for the past 16 years, and the Polar Icecaps are
expanding....an INCONVIENIENT TRUTH!”
Nrec
LLeshaj of the New Jerusalem also shared an interesting perspective:
“Once I was in a hurricane and I asked one question: Does
the nature know if people are being hurt? The answer is NO. Nature only knows
how to keep itself in existence for 4 billion years and continues to do so very
well. That day I walked in the woods and was amazed to see that every dead tree
and dead branch was eliminated and knocked out to the ground, then I realized
how beautifully the nature correspond to it's work. The light, the air, the
water and the environment all work for us and not against us to make human life
possible on this planet. The question is are we doing enough not to make the
nature go mad on us? Example Ice age or global warming all happen for a reason
and that is to renew the face of the earth.”
Indeed
the debate on the reality or myth of climate change remains ongoing.
However,
I can say for a fact that the farmer in my village of Mampong Asaam in the Ashanti
region of Ghana can successfully cultivate her groundnuts and yam with the aid
of the weather.
The
non-predictability of the season is a reality the average farmer cannot
deny. The rains come unexpectedly and when it comes, it is torrential to
the bane of good soils and sustainable production.
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