Vendor a. Allen: Climate Change heroes The human, environmental, and economic cost of global warming is becoming increasingly clear, as is the need for action. From catastrophic flooding to hurricanes, droughts and fires, the impacts of climate change are no longer a concern of the future, but rather the present reality we must address today. As big, powerful nations run on coal, oil and gas, and send carbon into the atmosphere, smaller and less developed countries in southern Africa are seeing their temperatures rise at twice the global average – even though they had little to do with the cause! For example, the 2015-16 agricultural season was the driest in 35 years and an El Nino caused the deaths of 80,000 livestock, according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. In drought-prone sub-Saharan Africa, the number of undernourished people has risen 45 percent since 2012. Our posters of Indigenous women this week illustrate that just as women are the mothers of children, they are the caretakers of the Earth. Mother Nature is beginning to moan and cry for help. Our planet Earth is crying out to all the mothers who know what it’s like to give birth to a child, to discipline and train that child. We gave birth to the industry that created global warming. Now we mature and loving parents must exercise discipline and care to our beloved planet to ensure we can recover from this mismanagement of our environment.
INSIDE STREETWISE
Fifty years ago, Marvin Gaye sang about “What’s Going On:” “Who really cares, to save a world in despair… “Who’s willing to try to save the world…. “Little children today are really going to suffer tomorrow…. "Live for life, but let everybody live for the children…”
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