VIOLET MENGO
Lusaka
May 19, 2016
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| Violet |
Climate
change is everyone’s business. This is because it has affected all sectors of
development especially in developing countries where countries are just
beginning to take off in their development. The earlier all people especially
key stakeholders get involved the easier it will become in finding a lasting solution
to the many challenges posed by climate change. I am encouraged as I read the
Chapter one of the Laudato Si an encyclical letter of the holy pope Francis on
the care for our common home. Here is one of the quote though proving I must
say. “Some form of pollution are part of
people’s daily experience. Exposure to atmospheric pollutants produces a broad
spectrum of health hazards especially for the poor and causes millions of pre
mature deaths. People take sick for
example from breathing high levels of smoke from fuels used in cooking or
heating. There is also pollution that affects everyone caused by transport
industrial fumes, substances which contribute to the acidification of soil and water,
fertilisers, insecticides, fungicides, herbicides and agro toxins in general.
Technology which, linked to business interests is presented as the only way of
solving these problems, in fact proves incapable of seeing the mysterious
network of relations between things and so sometimes solves one problem only to
create others.”
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| Pope Francis |
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