With cyclone Idai flooding Mozambique, fires raging in the Amazon, and hurricanes ripping across the Atlantic, our planet and mother nature are sending us a message that we cannot afford to turn a deaf ear to: Climate change is here and it is no longer a matter of the future but NOW. therefore, We can no longer continue with business as usual.
Scientists worldwide agree that global warming is happening, and that human activity causes it.
The evidence is overwhelming. Record-breaking temperatures, humidity, and sea level rise, along with many other indicators, show that the Earth is warming fast, and that all the heat-trapping emissions we release into the atmosphere from burning fossil fuels is changing our climate.
As ice caps melt,wildfires rage and shifts in the geographic ranges distribution of some plant and animal species, scientific assertions that climate change is occurring at a rate faster than formerly expected have become manifest in locales around the world.
Many of these changes pose serious risks to human life and property. forest fires, for instance, are a threat to different animal species and indigenous trees that are responsible for sucking at least 40% of Co2 from the atmosphere.Exposure to extreme drought, heat, rainfall, and coastal inundation are projected to worsen in many parts of Africa and around the world.
bitter pill to swallow is the fact that Humans emissions and activities have caused around 90% of global warming and climate change the least we can do is take action to combat climate change or invent solutions to adapt to the changing climate.
In the spirit of writing about my continent, Blog 4 Climate Action is a series and social media campaign with the aim of leveraging the power of storytelling to document the realities of climate change, raise awareness, create dialogue and demand for immediate action from the African populace because we are the only continent still living in denial of the fact that our climate is changing even though we continue to live in the realities of rising temperatures.
Voices of the Wild 