1.5oC global
warming: A generational fight
by Oladosu Adenike
by Oladosu Adenike
Haven’t
you heard that; “The earth lies polluted under its inhabitants; for they have
transgressed laws; violated the statutes and broken the everlasting covenant.
Therefore a curse devours the earth and its inhabitant suffers their guilt”.
This is a biblical sanction against man’s inhumanity towards
the environment. The old testament of the Jewish scriptures depicts man’s wickedness
towards himself and the burden of his actions. All religious and psychological
accounts of human existences depict perfections of the newly created
environment and its subsequent degradation of the climate is due to man’s
activities. As a result, it affected his well-being, economy and ways of life.
Why it’s Matters.
At
a special report on global warming of 1.5oC (SR 15) which was
published by IPCC, it founded that reaching a 1.5oC (2.7oF)
target is possible but would require “deep emissions reductions” and rapid,
far-reaching and unprecedented charges in all aspect of society”. Also, it
includes rapid decarbonisation, was a key focus on much of the reporting which
was respected through the world. According to the report, a global warming of
1.5oC would result to increased risks to “health, livelihoods, food
security, water supply human security and economic growth”.
The
scientific reports further stated that climate related risks associated with
increasing global warming depend on geographic location, “Level of development
and vulnerability” and the rage of climate
mitigation and climate adaptation practice .The scientific Community have
speculated that have is only a dozen years for global warming to be kept to a
maximum of 1.5oC beyond which, will significantly worsen the risks
of drought, floods extreme heat and
poverty for hundreds of millions of people.
Current Climate Crises.
The
word is currently 1oC warmer than pre-industrial levels. Following
divesting hurricanes in the US, records droughts in Cape Town and forest fires
in the Arctic, The IPCC makes clear that climate changes is already happening.
The consequences of climate changes crises creating poverty in Africa due to
low crop yield thereby increasing climate-driven refugee or economic migrants.
The Current Climate crises are driving the shrinking of the Lake Chad basin
with its resistant effect on over 40million people that depend on it.
According to Bill Clinton; “First, I worry about Climate change, it is the only
thing that I believe has the power to fundamentally end the march of
civilization as we know it and make a lot of the other, efforts that we are
making irrelevant and impossible’’.
The
bloody Niger-delta crisis, farmer-herdsmen clashes, Boko-haram (all in
Nigeria), the fight for contest of resources in South-Sudan all are
consequences of Climate change. The time is past when humankind thought it
could selfishly draw on exhaustible resources we know now that world is not a
commodity. The currents trends of rural poverty in Africa is a direct
consequence of climate crises.
Conclusion
Climate
change if unchecked is an urgent threat to health, food supplies, biodiversity
and livelihood across the globe. If we don’t take the action today, tomorrow
might be the end. Let us be awake and fight back against global warming through
our daily action.
OladosuAdenike
is freelance journalist and Climate
Justice activist
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