LET’S NEITHER BE COP-OUTS NOR HOLD-OUTS; LET’S BE ALL-OUTS:

Sunday,30th.June.2024

Courtesy of the American Folk Singer, Social Activist, and Songwriter Pete Seeger, “If it cannot be: reduced, reused, repaired, rebuilt, refurbished, refinished, resold, recycled or composted; then it should be: restricted, redesigned and removed from production .”

British Economist and Writer Barbara Mary Ward offers a wise gem to me and you,”We have forgotten how to be good guests; how to walk lightly on planet earth as her other creatures do.”

Weevils are more wiser than men.

In their embedded, endowed, and etched wisdom: rats never made the mousetrap. In their folly: human beings made atomic bombs.

 

Brianna Navarre in the U.S. News & World’s Reports Thursday,28th.December.2023 in a blow-by-blow, brick by brick and hand-by-hand analysis of the natural disasters that claimed so many lives in 2023 :

On Monday, 6th.02.2023 in Syria and Turkey, more than 5,500 people died thanks to the earthquake.

On Sunday,12th.March.2023 the Tropical Cyclone Freddy killed over 1,000 people in Malawi.

On Tuesday, 2nd.In May.2023 heavy rains and inundation killed 129 people in Rwanda.

On Saturday 13th.May.2023 flooding in the Democratic Republic Of Congo claimed 438 people; over 5,000 people are still missing.

On Sunday,14th.In May.2023 at least 145 people were killed by cyclone Mocha in Myanmar.

At least 100 people died of drought and wildfire in Hawaii on Tuesday,8th.08.2023.

2,946 were killed by an earthquake in Morocco on Friday,8th.09.2023.

On Sunday,10th.Sep.2023 Storm Daniel killed at least 4,352 in Libya.

On Saturday, 7th.10.2023 1,480 people were killed by an earthquake in Afghanistan.

157 people in Nepal were killed by an earthquake on Friday,3rd.11.2023.

 

The Costa Rican Diplomat Christiana Figueres Olsen made the clarion call to action to me and, “The technology is here. The money is here. The solutions are here. What is not here is the collective will to make the positive changes.”

The Swedish Environmental Activist Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg throws in the spanner, “I want you to act as if your house and mine house are on fire. Because they are. I do not want you to be hopeful. I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear that incessantly feel every day and then I want you to act now at the dropping of a hat manner. “

 

Safely and soundly as a Fort Knox do the Members Of The Fourth Estate arrive at Mr. Namonio Echoto’s rickety grounded, grass-thatched hamlet at 11:00 A.M.; perspiring due to the scorching and sweltering summer’s heat at Turkana County.

They find him sitting on his wooden, rickety traditional stool called ekicholong ; pensively keeping vigilance over his family.

He consumes acacia’s seed pods lock, stock, and barrel from a bowl; retrieving tearful gazes and sunken eyes.

“It is all that we have,” Mr. Namonio moans.

 

In 2022: 735 million people experienced chronic hunger.

Over 122 million people were facing chronic hunger in 2022 compared to 7.9% in 2019.

More than 600 million people are projected to be facing hunger in 2030.

 

Our World In Data reports on the Global Disaster Deaths caused by droughts, earthquakes, floods, storms, and volcanic activities.

3.2 million died of natural disasters in 1931, the highest number of deaths from a natural disaster.

200,000 deaths were as a result of global shock events.

45,000 die of natural disasters annually.

Former American President Barack Hussein Obama advised me and you that, “We are the first generation to feel the effects of climate change and the last generation who can do something.”

Thanks to the Canadian Writer Margaret Atwood said, “It is not climate change.  It is everything.”

Professor Wangari Muta Maathai, “The environment and the economy are two sides of the same coin. If we cannot sustain the environment, we cannot sustain ourselves.”

 

The NOAA, the  National Centers For Environmental Information, Monthly Global Climate Report For 2024 published in May 2024 and retrieved on Friday, 7th. June. 2024 gaslights that there is a 61% chance that 2024 will rank as the warmest year and a 100% chance that it will rank in the top five.

 

The knee-high-to-a-grasshopper lady wades through knee-deep waters that had bustling streets.

The weight of climate change crumbles the sea’s levels and the extreme atmospheric behaviours relentlessly assault Mother Nature.

By 2050 plastic products shall be more than the fish inhabiting oceans and seas.

Regrettably, every minute, one truck of garbage makes its road into the ocean.

 

Wildfires are raging.

The sea is crippling our habitats.

Ice caps are melting.

Species are facing the reality of extinction.

 

The Non-Violence Activist Mohandas Karamchand Mahatma Gandhi advises me and you“The earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s and every woman’s needs; however never enough for everyone’s greed.”

Emeritus Professor Edward Osborne Wilson opines wisely that, “Destroying rainforest for economic gains is burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.” He goes further by saying that, “Nature holds the key to our: aesthetic, cognitive, intellectual and even spiritual satisfaction.”

 

Research says that by 2100, rising temperatures could cut global real Gross Domestic Products by 7.2%.

 

We are in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone is arguing over where they are going to sit; we have not bequeathed this earth from our forebears; we have borrowed it from our children; the greatest threat to our planet is the myopic and raw baked belief that someone else will save it: thanks to the Canadian Author, Environmental Activist, Scientist and Television’s Personality David Takayoshi Suzuki; Lester Brown and the Polar Explorer and World Class Speaker Robert Charles Swan respectively.

 

• Switching from burning fossil fuels to renewable energy sources such as hydroelectric power, solar power and wind power ;
• resting on the Sabbath Day;
• afforestation ;
• reducing greenhouse gas emissions ;
• investing in greener and cleaner technologies ;
• environmental friendly agriculture;
• recycling;
• composting organic wastes ;
• eating vegetables, fruits, and greens and eliminating flesh products ;
• saving electricity;
• utilizing gathered water in cleanliness as opposed to running tap water and
• purchasing durable products are some however not the limited means and ways of conserving our environment.

 

1. Bhutan is the world’s most carbon-negative country.
2. China is the global leader in wind power.
3. Costa Rica has achieved 99% renewable energy.

 

Tuesday,9th.April.2024 U.S. News & World’s Reports  on the top ten performing jurisdictions in climate change are :

10. Portugal.

9. Norway.

8. Chile.

7. Sweden.

6. Morocco.

5. The Netherlands.

4. India.

3. Philippines.

2. Estonia.

1. Denmark.

 

Former American President John Fitzgerald Kennedy said, “Our task is not to fix the blame for the past but to fix the courses of today and the future.”

The buck stops with me.

All-outs: individuals who take full accountability and responsibility for their successes and pitfalls.

Cop-outs: individuals who have perfected the art of passing the buck to others. Experts in the blame games.

Hold-outs: experts in dilly-dallying; procrastination and taking long periods to act or speak.

Let us be the all-outs.

The ALMIGHTY LORD GOD shall destroy all those who destroy the earth. Revelation 11:18.

By Professor and Philosopher Daniel Masese.