Sincerely Yours Earthly...

  A lot has happened in the climate change scene in the last few months, but I haven’t really found enough motivation to update my writings for a while.  Why? As difficult as it is to give up on a good cause, at times it becomes necessary to take a back seat in order to reflect objectively and see through a different lens. Often, I ask myself if we will eventually get our acts together regarding climate change, eco-sustainability and the race to finding a balance between the needs of man and the rights of nature. Unfortunately, the unpromising atmosphere that abounds in the corridors of global power and influence usually results in a rather pessimistic conclusion after such deep reflections. I will try as much as possible to keep this simple - avoiding complex vocabulary so that my reflections can cut across.  Almost every news channel carried the alarming news of the recent findings and projections of the Intergovernmental panel on climate change (IPC...

In spite of the downplays by policy makers and the strong deniers witnessed in the regards of climate change, still the impacts have been vivid and obvious enough to challenge the consciousness of the more sensitive populace of the world.  The fact is no longer debatable that climate change is real and the impacts are more obvious in recent times. Thanks to the latest IPCC report which gave the much anticipated view into the reasons to believe that the changes are predominantly anthropologically induced. 2013 witnessed a quite a number of events that would have propelled or perhaps changed the outlook of  situations in the regards of commitments level by world leaders, major stakeholders and concerned agencies. But the reverse was the case and it even seemed we took some few steps back into the past which was shadowed in negligence. In a more vivid look, the climate talks in Warsaw saw a lot of drama, from the walk-out of the African civil society dele...

Ignorance could often be considered a significant factor of influence in the wise of the poor    perception   of climate change among the common people of the developing world , but a more obvious pointer is their decried poverty state which in a great deal of way has negatively influenced their take on the climate issue. The fact is that their common orientation towards devising a more or less daily surviving strategy way outweighs their relative concern for the inevitable change which in most cases they tend to term as not relevant considering their relative state of living. In a lot of respect, the premise is not that they do not feel or perceive the dangerous changes, in fact, these set of people, who make up the larger proportion of the developing countries’ population have come to recognize the fact that there are changes already well obvious around their respective environment and which in a way have been impacting their respective livelihood suppor...