Reality of climate change
The devastating floods that sent shock waves along the South Coast in KZN recently demonstrated the huge consequences of global climatic change.
At the very least, the events could be attributed to a mix of unusual weather conditions exacerbated by climate change. The area should be declared a state of disaster as the scope of the destruction defies description. KZN will always be in the cross-hairs of these powerful events. Resolutions will be passed and a plethora of statements to control-climate degradation will be passed as usual. Reality has evaded many of our global world leaders as climate change continues to degrade the ecology of the planet. Catastrophic storms will continue, which contribute to land degradation, resulting in economic loss and reduced biological diversity, with adverse impacts on human wellbeing.
A study published by Scientific Reports says that deforestation and mega-droughts are increasingly becoming a feature of our changing climate and are likely to create conditions for the return of massive dust storms.
The brilliant leader of the Suquamish
tribe, Chief Seattle (after whom the U.S. city is named), said the following prophetic words to his white conquerors 160 years ago: “Teach your children, what we have taught ours, that the Earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the Earth befalls the sons of the Earth. The Earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the Earth. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. We did not inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.”
Ignore his warnings at your peril. embassy? It is the Western countries’ two-faced nature that allows extremism, terrorism and other negative forces to breed. The disciplined attack on self-victimising apartheid Israel by Iran had nothing to do with the genocidal in Gaza. The convenient deflection of global attention to Benjamin Netanyahu’s “stand with Israel”, must not shift the focus from the mass devastation, massacres and blockade of basic necessities in Gaza.