{UAH} COVID and climate change

COVID and climate change

As the entire world continues to grapple with the Covid-19 pandemic, climate change remains a danger to communities. We have seen sharp increments in the levels of water in open water bodies like Lake Victoria, destroying assets worth millions of shillings and displacing people from their homes.

This alone will likely come with more killer diseases such as cholera, typhoid and bilharzias, among others. The rising water levels are a sign of the worsening impacts of climate change.

What the public needs to know is that the worst is still yet to come. More landslides, flooding, diseases are coming our way if we do not change the way we look at or treat this planet. Soon, we shall see wildfires in Uganda due to global warming.

Air pollution alone has been responsible for the death of over 4.2 million people annually across the globe. In Kampala, we have seen improved air quality levels due to reduction in the carbon footprint and greenhouse gas emissions.

We, therefore, need to learn from this pandemic that our biggest enemy of climate change still stands but also acknowledge with proof from this lockdown that we can defeat this enemy if we change the way we treat nature.

Ugandans should use this lockdown to rethink strategies geared towards climate change mitigation. Issues like reduced motor vehicles in the city are all possible, on top of restoration of vegetation.

Asadhu Ssebyoto,

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"When a man is stung by a bee, he doesn't set off to destroy all beehives"

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