Sincerely Yours Earthly...

T he early morning rains have begun! It’s the inception of the never ending raining days that define the usually wet months of June, July and a little part of August before the usual dry spell the breaks the many wet days in this part of the world (Southwest of Nigeria). A typical season well attributed to increased Agricultural activities and which is quite the usual in the rural where the predominant occupation is farming, although with a seemingly set back of poor to little availability of mechanized system which has greatly limited the optimality in expected output considering the percentage of individuals involved and the availability of raw resources of engagement . The usual expectations of of increased food production as envisaged with the rains have in recent times taken a reverse in the known order as the pattern of rainfall has assumed a rather form of irregularity and which has largely induced a level of unpredictability. The uneducated and rural folks who have

Photo credit: Encyclical word cloud In the wake of 2015, every pointer was in the direction of a productive year of substantial and unequivocal leap of meaningful development in the wise of global action at tackling the seemingly burdens of concern for the whole of humanity-Sustainable development and climate change. While the habitual records of global imbalanced portrayal of concern has for one represented the accumulating factor of delays and of course the possible reprimanding results of such delays, every hopeful heart that had never tarried at raising a common voice of change envisioned and anticipated a possible event changing year. A year of action it’s been tagged as and from all possible scenario, the potential of the year still depicts a level of certainty in the tune of change of tides. Although the year is already halved and the odds still counts on the side of would it really be the year of final breakthrough? The recently released Encyclicals by the Pope added