The Rift Valley, Kenya
When I am seated thinking of what the future holds for me, I always think about my children and something inside me tells me that I also have to think about their future, since I want them to have more than I had in my childhood. I want my children to see elephants, hippos, rhinos, cheater, leopards, among many other animals that exist. I want a fresh and clean environment for my children, I want them to enjoy forests and nature as I am enjoying today. I want them to have access to clean water and live in a clean environment with no hazardous chemical and materials. However, everyday, the society is taking that dream away from me. Pouching is slowly dominating our way of life and animals are becoming extinct, industrialization and unsustainable development is killing my dream of a clean environment to my children by disposing harmful toxic chemicals and material to the environment. I am now not sure if there is something left of my dream and I see no need to bring children on this earth to suffer for mistakes made by their respective society. As all these environmental degradation activities are taking place either as a result of human activities or technology, we are closing our eyes and pretending all is well.
Beautiful animals in Masai Mara
Wangari Maathai, the environmental nobel prize winner, is gone but that does not mean that we should throw away all that she worked for during so many years of pain and suffering just to ensure that the environment does not destroy you. Human beings tend to forget easily: have you forgotten that Wangari Maathai was fighting for your future by enhancing environmental sustainability? I am very sad not because I am obsessed with environment but because I know the importance of environment in my life. Everyday, we line up and make a lot of noise about big environmental issues. However, we don't understand that when we add up all the tiny environmental problems, we come up with complex environmental dilemmas. We are all part of the problem so why don't we come together and become part of the solution? I want to dream again and I can't dream alone: I want your help to successfully make my dream come true. Please dream with me: I can't have an environmental sustainability dream alone. Let's fight for the future of our children! Let's fight for our future! Only through environmental justice can we have inter and intra generational equity.
The beauty of nature
How do we help to achieve the dream? It's simple: just imagine a world with no environmental problems. Only through that are you going to stop poaching, polluting the air and water, you are going to learn how to recycle and you won't destroy forests. The ocean and seas will be free from oil-spills and other harmful chemicals and material. Development will be done cautiously since not all developments are sustainable. We shall have no hunger, people will stop fighting for scarce resources, and many lives will be saved. See the beauty of having animals around us, don't see them as enemies. Stay away from wildlife protected areas and avoid human-wildlife conflict. Let's learn to appreciate what was created by the maker and creator of the Universe. I challenge you to take an action and enhance environmental sustainability. Man is the only enemy of the future. "If you destroy nature, surely nature will destroy you".
Don't wait until the well is dry. Let's be the solution, not the problem!
Written and compiled by Anthony Ngari.
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