AFRICA'S PART IN THE CLIMATE CHANGE SYSTEM

     Writing about CO2 emissions and other greenhouse gases does not at all feel repetitive and boring yet - I mean, climate change though began quite a long time ago, it is still just starting to really hit us. But talks about the causes and sources of greenhouse gas emissions would just be stating already established facts (except new, completely new information come up). Not that it's unimportant; it's just mundane.

     That said, sources of CO2 emissions (i.e, smokes from exhaust pipes of vehicles and generators , burning large amounts of garbage, mining etc… ) in Africa is not the subject here; I mean, all of Africa combined don't emit up to half of Asia,  or according to some stat (e.g, Union of Concerned Scientists) only China.

     Emission of greenhouse gases has been a global norm for centuries now. We only are just starting to experience its effects. Talks relating to the "bastard" now hinge on how to reduce its abundance and mitigate its effect.

     The topic here is what I believe to be Africa's major role in the whole system of climate change. The role I believe to be POVERTY, enunciated by her WEAK INSTITUTIONS.

     Now it is a rather natural, unconscious thing to be poor (you're just lucky to be born into a family where "the stew has cooked"); I mean we're all born naked and dirty. But it is very conscious to remain that way especially after seeing your counterparts doing way better and having every physical thing necessary to be better. And worse, I don't see us getting out of it in the next fifty years- if at all, not completely.

     Africa neither produces as much or as sophisticated greenhouse gas as other continents, but they are also too underdeveloped, therefore too unorganized to even reduce climate-changing emissions not to talk of investing substantially in clean and renewable energy in the foreseeable future.

     And economic growth seems to be the major concern of the leaders who give no fucks about environmental health; the same economic growth they are trying to achieve with all the wrong tools and policies.

     Africa's role in the climate change system is seen also in their great dependence on primary level of production and  employment because of poor understanding and lack of research to optimize their natural blessings, when other continents are developing (even their cultures) into technological entities.

     Global electronic, space, automobile, biotechnology, and agro-allied companies all sound like and do stuff, the closest to which we can ever get to, are to see them in futuristic and sci-fi movies… at this goddamn time.

     Research organizations in developed economies are busy researching their own lands, they have very little time for us except it somehow managed to concern them… fuck! we depend a lot on their findings concerning us.

     Then if at all, there's little research budget for our universities… or maybe our professors actually swipe the money, who knows? It has now become "general knowledge" that Africa is largely under researched and un-understood, like that is a must-know. As a result, bad or no planning at all for some sectors (especially the not very financially viable ones) are unsurprisingly common- almost expected.

     Perhaps our only saving grace are the maintained animal reserves and the vast naturally growing vegetation species. Thankfully they being maintained is a human factor without which would still be maintained. The downside to these reserves is that they are not being developed to accommodate more exotic species, and there is a lack of large aquatic reserves. Plus I don't believe we (by ourselves) study them enough to understand them more.

     Therefore, our reserves seem to be about more work of nature than of humans; I mean Africans. Also, we should be grateful that these reserves are not unduly exploited; at least for now.

     This is not to say that there are no reserves in the continent in which the animals do not yearn to return to their creator.

     Then there is the problem of their ever increasing population; Africa's most prominent role in Climate change. It is one thing to have a high population, it is another thing to have a "working population". But then, what would one expect from a majorly cooperation-defective population? They shout culture and family like its all they know, but they are even more heterogeneous than the rest of the world put together.

     They are plenty and they are poor. It's like you put about a hundred rats in one well-furnished bungalow and you leave them there for as long as they live: imagine the kind of havoc they would wreck.

     Generally, Africa is poor. The kind that breeds low standards- because I don't understand our complacency towards real and evident growth.

     The majority of them are poor and lacking in comfortably, ok life, making their mindsets slightly bent towards survival, especially through exploitation. Then there is the high level human insatiable nature (especially in the leaders) that grows survival needs into luxury and fear of falling back into poverty.

     Private and government organizations are faulting in standard of operation. Put that together on a national level and you have an "artificial disaster".

     Now being poor would have been ok, if we were not connected directly to earth (though that's impossible at the moment). Otherwise, we just reap the earth and make it sick, while ourselves are not better for it. It's a lose-lose situation.

     Not that losing is the issue, but that we're affecting the earth with our practical uselessness; that's nothing short of demonic.

      Therefore, I believe I can say that being poor (and stupid) and living on earth is environmentally wrong; we can as well dig up all the oil on the continent and wash them in the ocean while we burn down all the vegetation… 

     Now, what can we do about this? I know not!

     But!... How about- on the surface; forget the intricacies- the rest of the world cut us off of international stuff. They only seem to need our raw materials; I mean, what do we give them that they can't produce on their own- yam and palm oil; smallz.

     Then they give us a development threshold to attain before we can be incorporated back into world affairs.

   … shit! We are finished. First of all, no internet. Then no Eminem, no Dwayne Johnson, no Beyonce… I know I would just die from hearing it.

     It would be hell at first. If we're dumber than I thought, then maybe a few decades. But in the end, we'd surely be incorporated back into the world, its saviour.