Thursday, January 22, 2009

Ecobuzz: Climate Change

This year it’s all about climate change. Towards the end of the year in Copenhagen, the world convenes to re-negotiate the rights and responsibilities of countries in dealing with this global threat. Actually, these end up being your rights and responsibilities as an individual, an employee, a company, an association, an MP.....and it would be appropriate in all these capacities, to tell our Government climate negotiators what we expect. Consider this: starving cattle, destroyed livelihoods, dying wildlife and yet the continued extraction of water for supply to a lodge swimming pool - all in the same ecosystem. What’s the response? For tourists to chose not to travel? For cattle insurance schemes for the pastoralists? Developing better water infrastructure to cope with drought extremes? Kenyans need to think for ourselves on these types of scenarios in all spheres, because no one else is going to do it for us. http://moreintelligentlife.com/story/going-green-making-global-warming-hot