SWEEP THY PLANET

By Dode Sescri

WORDS TO ELATE

Tenth Agenda

Copyright © 2016 DODE®

Second Edition: June 2022

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Disclaimer

All readers are welcome to challenge the contents of this book, and should process them with their uttermost intellectual capabilities before they can assess them for reference purposes because they are largely a work of the author’s own imaginations.

Some stories given as examples in this book do not represent Factual or historical events but have been used fictitiously to bring out the literal aspects of discussions and also demonstrate the author’s intended thoughts and ideas exemplarily. Do not take them too seriously.

This book is stacked up with numerous mini chapters the author refers to as rubbish. Each rubbish stands for each idea or topic of discussion.

You will also find some non-English words, the author has used them only for the sake of enhancing description. They are not a result of typo.

Table of Contents

Contention.

Rubbish-1-ugly face

Rubbish-2-Smoking Planet.

Rubbish-3-environmental alarmists.

Rubbish-4-ungrateful guests

Rubbish-5-the fury of Mother Nature.

Rubbish-6-More vengeance from Mother Nature

Rubbish-7-Their endless folly

Rubbish-8-fear of gas tax.

Rubbish-9-food for a few

Rubbish-10-sun birds.

Rubbish-11-Money on trees.

Rubbish-12-calamitous planet.

Rubbish-13-The world’s forests on Fire

Rubbish-14-No More Rain from the Clouds

Rubbish-15-No More Fish Left in the Seas

Rubbish-16-No Technological Solutions to the Plastic Waste Problem Yet

Rubbish-17-The Green Campaigns hampering development in the Global South

Rubbish-18-That air freshener isn't really Fresh

Rubbish-19-The Green Little Kids of The North Pole

Final Clause

Footnotes.

Contention.

Man still continues to defile the earth, his children defecate on the lakeside and spray urine into the rivers, the birds and amphibians get out of the waters coughing and sneezing painfully, they are tired of this stench.

Mother Nature groans in agony since her lungs are filled with toxic black smoke that goes up from the chimneys, day in day out.

Rubbish-1-ugly face

‘’Planet earth has an ugly face,’’ says the moon, ‘’you once mocked me saying that I am an old peasant with a long chin and faces filled with so many holes, so many pimples, now it will be my turn to mock you instead, to laugh at you, man has drilled many large holes onto your face, big enough to swallow entire cities, your face has turned so rough, rougher than the back of a tortoise(tortoise shell), in an endless desire to get more precious stones, they drill deeper and deeper into the depths of the crust till rocks cave in on them burying them alive, but they won't stop as long there is still a small breath of air left in them, they dig and dig until when they are completely passed out.

My misfortune I did not cause, it just found me when I was sitting in my comfort zone, when suddenly stars came out of the heavens and smashed onto my face, leaving me with dark plumage and also taking away my bright halo, now if I may ask you earth, why are you still allowing man to cause you more harm? he finds pleasure in inflicting you with pain and robbing you of your natural treasures.’’

Those grave diggers, they extracted precious metals such as gold, silver and precious stones like jasper, rubies, diamonds, etc. leaving behind a vast ugly face on the land dangerous for everyone nearby.

Rubbish-2-Smoking Planet.

Industrialisation seems to be the only hope of achieving a quick economic success, a time is soon coming when every nation on earth shall be highly industrialised. Factory floors stretching miles upon miles, every adult human shall own an automobile.

It is the life, the good life you know? When authorities shall encourage public transport and discourage use of private cars, such that acquiring an automobile would be so expensive, getting one would cost you an arm and a leg. All that for the mere aim of improving the economy.

What would the world look like when everyone owns an automobile? One hundred trillion people, each one with a car of his/her own, all running on diesel engines, another one for the baby kid too, every school going child with a scooter. The whole world is going to be industrialized, toxic black smoke will ascend from every corner of the hemisphere daily.

I now understand what development is all about, it's exclusively about destroying the planet, grab as much you can, tear away as far as you can go but never mind what's happening with the results for there shall be no consequences to your actions.

Humans don’t know they are cooking themselves in an oven, they wanted to warm themselves in the cold weather, then went into a large cylindrical casing and lit some fire right underneath them, for they wanted to be inside something that was tightly enclosed so that no shred of heat would escape.

They lit a fire underneath and added firewood to warm themselves, they looked around once again, and when they thought there wasn’t enough fuel for the flames, they added more firewood, when the room temperature got warmer and warmer, they asked themselves what's happening? Then they added some more firewood. This is how humanity is slowly cooking itself to death, they are like that foolish frog who slowly boiled inside a pot because his body never realized that he would ever boil to death, even when his skin felt the water temperatures slowly rising, he could not perceive the danger it was in.

Unless the so-called electric cars are cheaper, faster and of better quality than the diesel drinkers, they have no place in the market, the transition can just be smooth and straightforward, it is the only way you can kill those old rusty diesel drinkers and send them early to the museums.

It's hard for people to clean the environment if it costs them a fortune, if environmental clean-up was a way to earn a living or make some cash, the streets would literary be cleaning themselves, each morning you wake up, you will find them sparkling clean. If only we can reverse the process of contamination, then we can have super clean cities.

The soil is so polluted that whenever you sow a seed, it spits it up, and it would refuse to grow anything supplanted by humans. Let us sit back and watch the soil decay, since the scale of daily damage is so huge, there is nothing much that can be done about it, our efforts are like a prick of a needle.

Rubbish-3-environmental alarmists.

An industrial giant factory owner blames the stars for what's happening with nature, "it's not my factories that are causing climate change,” he says," it’s the strange things that happens with the stars, that universe above there is the sole culprit for all your problems!’’ He exclaims.

Conservationist campaigns are heading towards dangerous levels, they demand that humanity should reduce all consumption, reduce all emissions and to reduce everything including the population, then come up with heinous plans to slash the human population by a huge fraction so that mother nature would have more room to breathe, population growth as we know it is not solely a work of human desires, it’s beyond their control, it’s a work of divine intervention. Are they suggesting that humans should stop giving birth because the world is becoming overpopulated and there would be not enough space for everyone to live comfortably in?

Were it not for plastics, thousands of people would be dying every day from electrocution, wondering why many people are so much against plastics, anti-plastic movements fill our streets. Yet some lifestyle in modern world wouldn’t be possible without them.

What puzzles me most is not whether the claims they are making are true, but how are their stories going to help me anyway? Can they bring food onto my table or solve my personal problems?

Environmental watchmen or alarmists continually claim that with current population explosions, people will become more and more crowded in small cities and countryside, there would hardly be any place left to set up a camp.

People will stand in rows clutched together like penguins about to fall off a narrow cliff. They have a point, but their warnings are so terrifying that you might think the world might come to an end soon.

When the environmental alarmists were done with their intense campaigns for many years, they received many positive responses, people did many things around them according to the way they had instructed. Their work was slowly paying off. I saw people putting up wind mills everywhere on land, some areas were so cluttered with windmills that there was not a single acre of plot left for more to be erected and therefore many of those bulky turbines had to be transferred offshore, they were screwed firmly into the shallow waters, I then asked them this, "are you certainly going to grind corn in the sea?"

They said those windmills were not for corn at all, they were instead there for a totally different purpose, and they were only put in place to help them catch the winds.

Looking on the other part of the land there were huge plates of silver laid on the surface of the ground side by side, they covered very large areas, and stretched out wide up to the edge of the horizon. They shone like mirrors in the sun, when I touched them, they were very hot, it almost burnt off my fingers.

‘’Why waste so much precious metals?’’ I asked them, "We are capturing the warmth of the sun to use in our homes,” said one of the workers, "what for?" I interrupted "oh! I see, you are using these disks to boil your tea? Uh?

“It's less costly and time consuming than to use fire wood, right?” “These numerous disk plates that you see here have the power to grab the brightness of the sun and put it into our homes, the homes would then remain bright with light even in the middle of the night," he said.

Rubbish-4-ungrateful guests

Mother Nature, who has done these terrible things to you?

You welcomed them, hugged them held them onto your bosom, yet this is how they pay you? How could they dishonour you like this?

These filthy humans have repeatedly defiled mother nature while she was kind to them from the very beginning, with her wool and cotton she provided them clothing, with her grains in the fields she gave them food to eat, with her timber, she put a roof onto their heads, and provided a comfortable place for them to live in, yet they did not appreciate a shred of it, because of their over ambitious projects they robbed her of everything that was beautiful, they went to prepare a concoction , cooked it in a large pot made of poisonous ingredients and spices of dangerous toxins, when the potion was fairly hot they took it right out of fire and poured it onto her face, they robbed her of her garments and ran off with them giggling at one another as they said, "those were easy pickings."

These poor beggars that were once wandering in the wilderness of the earth have made themselves into cruel imperialists and turned against Mother Nature. But since she is too polite & gentle to defend herself, I the silver axe will avenge her course, I will ride in a golden chariot to every city on earth and present my case to every mayor in towns and cities, peoples of every village, "please listen to me, your ambitious plans have brought devastating effects upon mother nature, you made her blood boil and repeatedly injured her over and over again, she has had enough, now it's time you think twice about your ambitious projects, listen to me carefully if you want to continue enjoying your homestay.

To those towns that receive my message and get things done according to instructions, I will make friendship with them but those that refuse to listen and go deeper with their over ambitious projects, I shall have the pleasure to strike their cities with the full wrath of mother nature, their rivers shall be filled with toxic chemicals thousands will die that month, then inject the air with dangerous fumes, ten thousand more will die the second month, everything in their homes, their food, their clothing, their utensils shall be poisoned with that affluent which flows down from their monster factories, hundred thousand more will die the third month, if they do not listen and still dig deeper into their ambitious projects, the waters of the seas will warm up, mother nature will instruct the furnaces that lie deep below the earth to warm up the planet, places that were once cold and covered with snow & ice will become warm, moist, and dump, they will be infested by tropical diseases, many more will die, the waters of the oceans will rise and cover nearly half of all landmass, all cities that are within four hundred kilometres from the coastline will be annihilated, many islands will disappear, food will be scarce, anyone that tries to grow crops will be blown away by fierce famine winds.

Listen to me people of every town, if you still want to continue enjoying the fruits of your gardens or else you will be destroyed by the same Mother Nature who was once hospitable to you. Mother Nature’s past glory was destroyed, it shall be restored by the silver axe.

Rubbish-5-the fury of Mother Nature.

Mother nature has her own way of defending herself from the cruelty of man who has inflicted so much pain on her vegetation, fisheries and wildlife, full of rage she picks a guitar, she sings sweet hymns, she sings and sings for hours on, ‘’to the red liquid beneath the earth, to the rocks on the surface and the waters of the seas and oceans, and to the winds above the air, hear this, listen to this lullaby, the sweet music of the old, therefore begin to dance, dance your hearts out.’’ She tells them.

When the party starts, the whole earth begins to shake, earthquakes crack the rocks of the surface which burry thousands of homes, liquid fire flows out from the mountain tops, covers large tracks of land, forcing people to abandon their homes, huge waves rise from the seabed, they rise so high, higher than the highest mountain and descend upon the land with full force, in just a fraction of an hour all the coastal cities are swept away, left flat, barren, with only rubble, debris floating on the waters, the winds blow harder, the north and south winds join hands to dance salsa, they spin and spin a thousand times and the force they produce is so strong it lifts away rooftops, lifts huge rock boulders into the air and use them to knock down super skyscrapers, they dance and dance for many weeks. Only after everything has been levelled to the ground does Mother Nature stop playing her guitar, and the party ends. She has proven that she can defend herself from the cruelty of man. Why then should we wear ourselves out by worrying too much about these things?

How dare they close their eyes pretending they do not see what's happening around, they say, “we don’t understand what's going on, it’s none of our business either, what have we got to do with your problems,” “oh yeah?” Replies mother nature, ‘’I will respond the same way after you start feeling the effects of your damage. You robbed me of my divine beauty, and you definitely are going to pay for that.’’

Some of you may escape, I know that but what I am certainly assuring you is that your children will suffer the consequences of your actions, you children, grandchildren and great grandchildren will surely face my wrath, I will make them pay for what you did to me.

Rubbish-6-More vengeance from Mother Nature

As a punishment for their folly, mother nature will stir the belly bottom of the planet with coal tongs & and make fire raze further upon them, the fires will flare up and bake the planet, so hot, hotter than an oven that every living being will be particularly baking, there is nowhere you can hide now, ah! Ah! Ah! She laughs, those humans they thought of themselves as very smart now their folly has come to light, even the birds, land animals, and sea creatures were smarter than they are and were cautious enough not to meddle with divine structures.

Even a simple ordinary rain becomes dangerous, once before children would run into showers when it finally comes after a long period of dry hot summers, not this time round because instead of the rain cooling their bodies it burns their skin turning it pale, you might think they caught leprosy while bathing in the showers, an umbrella too is not safe, it can be used only once after that its then discarded, everyone stays indoors when it pours, children will no longer play outside in the rain, when you fetch the water in a bucket to examine it, it would taste like baking soda, not good for cooking. The long rains will fail to answer to man's call for irrigation purposes and bring starvation to millions, they fill my water tanks (the clouds) with acid, which I pour back onto their heads,’’ says mother nature, their skin peels off and their flesh melts away.

It turns out that some of the most magnificent cities of man are built along coastlines, an easy target for Mother Nature’s vengeance, the oceans will hold their bellies tight and vomit huge volumes of water with sea monsters onto the lands where men dwell, the furious water waves tear giant metal boats apart like a piece of thin garment.

‘’I will boil my porridge of anger while they sleep, I will prepare and attack them at a time they did not expect, when they are enjoying themselves on cool beachfronts, while they carelessly lay on the sand to bask, then shall I teach them a lesson, I will act in a way they will never understand, their wise and well educated will try very hard to predict my every move, but they will all fail, none of them will ever know where or when I will strike next. Even their best defence mechanisms shall fail them.’’ Mother Nature will then continue to fight back in her fury, and she will give them a beating they will never forget. When you have angered nature, you can't fight it nor shield yourself from its wrath. Mother Nature in her fury will force them to drink from the same rivers which they have poisoned, and the same air they have made stale she will force them to inhale.

Fires come out from the mountain tops, proceeded by dark fumes and toxic white smoke that burns everything it touches and chokes everyone that breathes it. Villagers near are shocked to see huge storm clouds of hot toxic black smoke approaching them. It shall raze entire villages and towns to the ground.

I tell them that none of them has witnessed the true fury of mother nature, the winds can shatter rock-solid buildings like sand castles, the waters of the seas will tear into metallic fortifications, it cuts through steel like knife through butter, the way an old soaked garment can easily be torn apart by a child, it's no big deal for mother nature.

Humans can defeat and conquer other humans but not nature itself. They shall have a taste of the fury of Mother Nature. Humans don’t realize that each day of their living they are constantly at the mercy of Mother Nature.

If man will continue with his relentless aggression towards nature, the once quiet and gentle nature will have no choice but to fight back, with full wrath, it’s after they have seen the results of her fury will they learn to fear and respect Mother Nature.

Rubbish-7-Their endless folly

Some fools were injecting portion of toxic chemicals into the soil, which then turned as black as coal, they left and quickly forgot about it, later on, many years afterwards, their children came to build a house on exactly the same spot, grey moulds began to crawl up their homes in such speedy motion in a way never imagined nor witnessed before.

Some gullible alchemists concocted a vast array of toxic chemicals in huge cylindrical tanks, they set up towering industrial complexes to pursue their well-crafted ideas, after the mix is over they poured it into streams giggling and chattering like monkeys saying, ‘’check that huge porridge chimp-nerd, the waters drained into rivers which later flowed into lakes and the oceans, all the sea creatures leaped out, coughing sneezing & vomiting, those that made it ashore died quickly as soon as they reached land.

Rubbish-8-fear of gas tax.

A while ago, a great controversy ensued between some factory owners and municipality of Queens-Ville town. The town clerks strictly advised the industrialists to reduce their carbon emissions since their factories were greatly affecting the town’s health, should they fail to do so, terrible punishments would be inflicted upon them either through increased taxation or face heavy fines, then the factory owners asked, "where are we going to get resources to install all that expensive equipment, How does the government plan to help us cut these toxic emissions?” are you going to support us?" the mayor barked angrily saying, "I don’t care where you shall get your funding from, just make sure you keep the air around this neighbourhood clean."

the factory owner too became angry and in response says, “I too do not care about what happens to this town, if this community should inhale cyanide gas and drink sulphuric acid because of my factory, I don’t care either, we pay more than a half of our annual earnings in taxes, that hurts us a lot already, now you want to squeeze our throats further, by threatening us with fines?" he says to the mayor, "do you know how difficult and expensive it is to run a factory? You just sit in your comfortable office chair wagging fingers at us, telling us to do this and that and you are never willing to help us."

The mayor on hearing this asked the guards to put the angry man in handcuffs till he answers to charges.

Unless governments around the world support healthy factory emission programs, pollution will continue to multiply ten, fifty and a hundred-fold. Installing filters and proper disposal mechanisms are costs too high for individual companies to take on their own, it reduces their productivity, cuts heavily on their revenue, many of these once productive factories will shut down if the rules against their productivity and environment are tightened further and further, all production, all manufacturing and processing, all recycling will come to a halt. unless a small portion of the tax payers’ money is put into research and development of environmentally friendly waste, we shall see no changes. Even the biggest, the most productive industries do struggle to survive in this industrialised and highly competitive world. Industries are owned by private corporates as well as the citizens. What affects an industry in a given locality also affects all the residents of that area in one way or the other, directly or indirectly, an entire country too feels the effects, not forgetting the globe. Not everyone in a country owns a factory but all citizens own the environment around it, the air, the water systems, the soils. Etc. they therefore have the right to defend and protect it.

Rubbish-9-food for a few

It's not that we fear the future populations will not have enough food to feed themselves, it’s a mere fact that food would be less affordable, for many people. Food is often grown in plenty, you will find in a single nation there are thousands of farmers who are unable to sell their produce because it would incur them great losses, if they were to sell at such a low price they'd be put out of business. Some crops grow stale on the farms while they wait for harvesting, others are bored into by aphids in the grain store as they wait for shipping creating a huge wastage. Mechanization has increased food production in the last century, but it has also made it expensive just like in the field of medicine, which was considered inefficient and relatively cheap in the early days but now just a simple medical check-up costs you an arm and a leg.

A group of environmentalists drum into people's heads that they need to grow more food for the bulging populations, so when farmers clear more land for cultivation, they say stop, you are destroying valuable forests, farmers are then forced to leave such a premise and head towards barren soils, they add fertilizers to the grounds to make it more productive. The same scientists stubbornly rush in asking them to stop, claiming they are leeching the soils, ‘’what do you want us to do then? Tell us more of your poor reasoning.’’ They ask them

Rubbish-10-sun birds.

I hear stories that there are aircrafts capable of flying with the mere help of sunlight. Like a huge sunbird, they soar up into the skies with their long wings widely spread out like an albatross, till they reach their destination. It absorbs the energy of the sun through its wings and brings that energy to its breasts, it flaps harder, becomes stronger, goes faster, our only concern is what will happen to these sunbirds once the sunlight goes out, maybe blocked out by an approaching storm, are they going to fall out from the sky into the abyss?

Rubbish-11-Money on trees.

A time will come when people will put their money into trees, when the price of one log of tree becomes more expensive than one bullion of gold, then will the world know that it has destroyed its nature reserves to the point of no return. When they try to plant many trees they needed urgently, but since ancient living things have a slothful growth duration, one generation plants them while another harvests them, a slow unreliable process.

Putting money on trees sounds crazy though a great idea. People are soon going to invest in large scale reforestation projects. In places where nature has been destroyed and wildlife disappeared, these tiny manmade forests will be the only source of timber and other valuables used by humanity extracted from trees, the one with the largest plantations gets to rip the greatest of benefits, trees of all kinds will be available, those that are usable while there are those that are useful only to nature. How will the world be like when people realise that one tree is more valuable than ten cars, for a tree improves man's health while a car destroys it.

Rubbish-12-calamitous planet.

There is an ever-increasing devastating effect of Natural Disasters. Some extremely brutal natural disasters face us on a yearly basis, many occur on their own without any human interference, disasters such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, tornadoes and hurricanes often happen naturally, however, there are times when natural disasters occur as a direct result of human interference, for instance, erratic weather patterns, the more frequent occurrence of tropical cyclones and hurricanes may be as a result of Climate change and global warming caused by human activity. Tropical storms are showing up in areas and regions they are never known to occur, recently we have been receiving reports in the news of hurricanes sweeping onto the Indian coast and south-eastern coasts of Africa, Countries like Mozambique are not known to be paths of cyclones, recent show up of hurricanes in those areas multiple times a year is a sign that something bad is happening to the global weather patterns and systems.

Disasters Such as earthquakes and Volcanic eruptions have existed long before any human set foot on the planet. they are acts of nature that have always shaped the planet into what it is today, without natural disasters such as volcanic eruptions, the earth probably could never have warmed up well enough to the stage where it supports human life, to us a super volcano’s eruption may be devastating to the local communities but these are activities that have been going on for millions and millions of years before any human set foot on the planet earth.

the natural disasters that have been taking place in the last few years appear to be very apocalyptic, they are showing up more often than usual and doing more damage to nature and people that dwell in those areas, there is hard evidence that our planet is drawing closer to its final hours. people should brace for impact as the next big asteroid prepares to hit us and drive all forms of life into extinction.

Some countries have learned to manage their disasters more than others, the richer and more capable nations have put measures in place to ensure that people survive any sudden show up of an earthquake, hurricane, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions etc. In areas that are on the pacific ring of fire, city authorities try to re-engineer all their construction techniques of all their buildings, bridges and public works so that when earthquakes come there is minimal damage to large structures and more importantly to have the least number of casualties.

in some places people build storm shelters to protect themselves just in case a tornado shows up, they build levies, to protect their coastal cities from the surges that often arise, unfortunately, those monsters, the hurricanes, typhoons and tsunamis always make unannounced arrival and wreak enormous havoc on the local communities, the hurricanes show up five times stronger and the tsunamis show up ten times bigger pushing the water to rise higher than the levies causing them to overflow or break releasing an enormous flood to the densely populated cities.

despite all the preparations humans make in advance, despite all the technology in weather predictions, engineering, robust construction and disaster management, nature can never be tamed, it’s so wild, so fierce, so unpredictable, that it always overwhelms humanity despite all their intelligence.

Say for instance you prepare yourself for an emergency that may occur in case your neighbourhood finds itself in the path of an hurricane or a tornado, it turns out that those monsters never show up on your home radar, but instead a fierce blizzard unexpectedly shows up in your city and turns everything into ice, you have never seen such snow in your entire lifetime, it accumulates on power cables and causes them to break, all power in your little neighbourhood is disconnected, electricity that was your only source of heating is now gone, you don’t have any alternative source of heating, you reach for the telephone to call for help but find it not working, its cables probably sabred by the snow, you get out of your house so that you can drive off to get some fuel, you find that your car is covered with snow ten foot high, that has now turned into hard ice, all the roads and the rail tracks are blocked by unforgiving snow, with all routes out of your neighbourhood now either damaged or blocked, you can’t go anywhere, you can barely reach your neighbour for mutual support.

You have been preparing all the year for the wrong Natural disaster, are you going to hide yourself in that little storm shelter you have been building to now use to protect yourself from the biting cold?

the recent bush-fires have also raised a lot of eyebrows, a huge number of precious lives taken while Trillions lost in damage to property, if there were people who could predict the occurrence of such disasters then the world would be a better place, I wish it was so.

A farmer prepares to irrigate his fields in anticipation of a major drought but instead unexpected downpour makes way, it floods his fields, washes away his crops and farm animals leaving him destitute.

A ski resort manager warns his tourist to watch out for the avalanches, they heed his warning and avoid the treacherous hilltops, in a twist of fate the avalanches never occurs but instead a landslide scurries downhill and buries the entire resort, the emergency teams are overwhelmed, help takes too long to arrive, and lives unfortunately get lost in the process. they have been preparing for avalanche emergencies for years, now it’s a mudslide, they are crippled by shock.

Natural disasters effects unite people, whenever such a calamity occurs people from all over the world rush in to aid the victims of the aftermath, they forget their national and social differences as they sympathize with their fellow humans, if a huge devastating natural disaster would strike the earth and take away half of its population, the remaining half will soon forget their disputed past and console one another.

The harsher an environment is with populations that are prone to natural disasters the more sophisticated their technologies, their protection & lifestyle systems inversely become. they will learn to always prepare in advance.

No matter how much you prepare, no matter how smart you think you are, nature will always catch you off-guard and outwit you, overpower you and leave you destitute.

We shall all learn to fear and to respect nature.

Rubbish-13-The world’s forests on Fire

1.Brazilian Amazon

The world’s greatest tropical jungle is up in flames, the recent Amazon Forest fires are a sign of a very bad omen and warning of what is soon about to happen to the world’s tropical rainforests and other forest reserves. We have seen in the news recently of the “great Fires of the Amazon Rainforest,” the largest rainforest in the world, there are other tropical rainforests on this planet of course, places that include Africa and South East Asia, everywhere in the world forests are being mowed down at an alarming rate, both legally and illegally, they are continually being exploited for their timber and agricultural land, the recent forest fires in the Amazon have raised great concerns both in the scientific community as well as the general public. Being the largest tropical rainforest in the world and spanning more than a dozen countries, this natural treasure rich with biodiversity of both plant and animal life amazes the globe with its infinite beauty, nearly everyone in the world knows the amazon and the little people than live in it, the indigenous communities that depend solely on the rainforests are the ones to be impacted the most if the bush is going to be cleared.

It plays a very vital role in our world’s atmospheric system, in terms of water vapor and breathing air regulation, a fact proven time and time again by the scientific community, so when it’s threatened, the whole of humanity is threatened, A few years ago, it was the illegal loggers that were posing a serious threat to the nature reserve, they secretly set up camps in the forests and cleared thousands of hectares of pristine woodlands, their work done mostly at night, they brutally killed anyone that got into their way, both the locals and the environmentalists that got into their way fell victim, as a result of these brutal cartels wreaking havoc on the local communities, there was an international outcry, financial aid poured in from all over the world, conservation efforts were increased and security was beefed up, this led to a great deal of reduction in the rate of destruction of the forests, countless innocent lives were also saved in the process.

The kind of challenge Amazon is facing now is a new one, more difficult than what it was before, previously it was the illegal miners, loggers and traffickers that were posing a threat to its existence, now there is a controversial leadership in power that threatens to undo the successful work of ten previous governments, critics argue that the Bolsonaro Administration had given green light to the farmers, miners, loggers and traffickers alike to do whatever they want to with the precious rainforests in the name of development. Farmers are critiqued to have intensified their deforestation activities, clearing millions upon millions of hectares of forests for agriculture, specifically for growth of Soybeans and the grazing of livestock. An incident that once led to an exchange of harsh words between Brazilian President Bolsonaro and French President Macron.

from the perspective of the farmer, it’s easy to understand their plight, these are just poor farmers that are trying to make a living off their country’s land, with no alternative source of income, they have no choice but to turn to the virgin forests and harvest them for a living, they will scrape off anything they can find. When a government comes to power that approves their actions, they will not hesitate to put on the gas pedal. Now this is where environmentalists become unreasonable, conservationists often put too much emphasis’s on the nature and forget the people that live near those reserves, people need to be taken care of just as much as nature needs to. Not unless the locals are provided with an alternative source of income, they will continue to wreak havoc on nature should they find nowhere to turn to for economic emancipation.

We have seen this incident repeating itself in many parts of the world over and over again. In nature conservation areas, be it national parks, game reserves, or wildlife sanctuaries, we have heard of local communities who have turned into poaching and killing the very animals that their governments are protecting, making the conservation of endangered species even more difficult, in their argument they would claim that their own governments have been pouring billions of cash to protecting nature while the locals are completely ignored, there are no jobs, no schools no hospitals anywhere near them, so they see a better way to get quick cash and justice as well is to sell the very animals the state has abandoned them for.

In cases of human-wildlife conflicts, when park rangers show up for a killed animal that had strayed into human settlements, angry locals would storm their jeeps fighting back, “Why do you show up here when an a lion or leopard is killed, but when it’s our fellow human beings or livestock that get killed by these wild beasts you are nowhere to be seen? You are always rushing here for their defense!” they would ask the rangers, the locals have taken to the understanding that their governments prefer taking care of wild animals and trees than their own people. Why should they care for nature when their state doesn’t seem to care about them? Not unless conservation funds are delivered in split ways, one for protecting nature and another for helping the local communities in development. It all comes down to socio-economics and proper management of funds where it appears that Nature will always loose, all these trillions that are being poured into conservation every year would be nothing but a waste of time and resources, eventually everyone will loose, both Nature and Humanity.

When all the trees would have been cut down, when all the top soils would have been eroded away, and when there would be no more rain, then will we know for sure that we have no hope left, unless nature fight for itself now, and stop relying on its human well-wishers it will continue to suffer, trees should stand up for themselves and cut down the same humans that have been cutting them down for countless generations,

‘’Yeah! Come baby come, you have been chopping us down for ages, now its your turn to taste the chainsaw.

“Man has been chopping wood since the beginning of time, he uses it for all sorts of things, everything in his house is made of wood, he cannot live without us,” they say to one another, “he has cleared all the trees of the forests of the world till now there is not a single tree left standing, come on here baby!” The trees would say, “now it’s your turn to taste the axe, we will chop up your skulls and pile them as high as a mountain, just the same way you pile logs ready for transport, We will surely get our revenge soon enough! You shall bear witness to the massacre of man by angry nature!’’

2.Australian Outback

Are kangaroos partly to blame for Australia’s Bushfires? I have an Australian friend who says that the Kangaroos are partly to blame for the recent enormous and super-destructive bushfires that destroyed millions of hectares and killed billions of wildlife. I asked, ‘’how is that possible, how do Kangaroos cause bushfires? Shouldn’t we blame humans for causing climate change that led to this unfortunate situation?” ‘’Yes I agree to the fact that global warming and climate change are part of the problem but not the full story.” he said, ‘’you should know that these funny looking creatures have secrets of their own.

Even though we have been receiving extreme heat in the last few years, this is not something new, Australia has always been going through multiple periods of extreme heat and extreme droughts, especially ones that last for several years.” during the dry season after the rains have long stopped, Kangaroos end up uprooting some plants that nourish the soil with their moisture leaving the ground even drier, these dry twigs and plant leaves left all over the ground then become fodder for the consuming fires that shows up later on. Kangaroos are also kick-boxers, they like fighting a lot. I guess they are the first kick-boxers in the animal kingdom and humans learned a lot from them.

No single human can fight a kangaroo in a hand-to-hand combat and survive the experience, these creatures are incredibly strong. A single kick from a male kangaroo can shatter a man’s bones and break his neck like a dry twig. Even the strongest man in the world is no match.

When fighting amongst one another, they end up destroying a lot of plant matter, grasses and shrubs suffer the most. These dry plant matter also becomes a problem when the temperatures rise above average, for the soils, it becomes hard to handle the heat sometimes, the overheated soils burn the leaves that then spark fires, there are incidences whereby fighting between Kangaroos itself became so intense that their scratching, jostling and punches sparked some wild fires.

‘’Well, what about human actions?” I interjected, ”I have been hearing lately of stories of people who are setting fires to the dry bushes, some go out camping in the outback and then forget to put out the fires while they sleep, the sparks from the fire are then blown off by the wind into the dry twigs therefore setting off a catastrophic bush-burn, and in some urban areas close to bush land, some people decide to make barbecue on their backyard but the heating equipment accidentally topples over and burns the compound, but since the house is attached to other homes which are all situated in an area surrounded by thick forest, those few sparks now begin to spread like a real wildfire.

Australia is also home to many smokers who never mind throwing out of their car windows a cigarette butt that is still glowing, and God knows where it lands. A few minutes later the whole countryside is ablaze, the driver and the passenger of the car then start to look back and ask themselves, ‘’did our tire treads scratch the tarmac too hard to the point it sparked a bushfire? Sadly, there are also cases of people who decide to deliberately set the bush ablaze. Such people must not be allowed to live among the population, they should be given ten years of hard time.

No matter who lives in the outback, kangaroos are still the majority and they play an important role in the ecosystem.

Rubbish-14-No More Rain from the Clouds

Planet “Doom” is already here, we are soon going to live in a world without water. The world is facing a serious water crisis. Water in the rivers, lakes and ponds is diminishing, fresh water in the marshes and swamps is disappearing at an alarming rate. We continue to hear disturbing reports from our news agencies that water is going to become scarcer as the world continues to develop its industrial capacity.

There is a growing water shortage worldwide for industrial, agricultural and domestic use, water for farming and irrigating fields is becoming harder and harder to find, groundwater is nearly depleted, so what’s next for humanity? Are we all doomed to die of thirst?

Groundwater is nearly gone, farmers continue to dig their wells deeper and deeper, aquifers have been sucked dry by Mega Machines to be used in the industries and domestic purposes, now there is none left. Some lakes have already dried up, for instance the Aral Sea has lost its water over the decades as a result of heavy irrigation. The ground is thirsty, farmlands are riddled with large cracks, it has become dry and dusty, the countryside is covered with dust storms round the clock

So what’s the best option for managing the little that is left? Water scarcity around the world is an impending issue that will create serious problems for the inhabitants of the earth, tensions will increase and conflicts will rise (if they are not already in existence). The Largest and the Most destructive wars of our modern times were fuelled by oil, that seductive black gold, so useful yet so dangerous, the wars that are going to be triggered or at least associated with fighting over water resources are those that will never end. Dispute over fresh water will trigger never ending world wars. So humans must come together and make wise decisions, they should keep in mind that its either now or never.

Without water there can be no life, water is the only thing every living creature needs the most to survive, a year without rains can spell devastating famine for a community that depends totally on rainwater to nourish their crop fields,

We are already hearing horror stories from around the world of devastation created by lack of water, for instance, farmers in California are having to sell their farms, after their groundwater was depleted, after years of pumping their wells dry. They thought that their water would last forever, it’s so unfortunate, now they have no choice but to sell the very farms they hold so dear, a place where they have invested their sweat, tears and blood, they had no choice but to sell the very farms that stayed in their family line for countless generations.

In places like India, we are hearing sad stories of farmers committing suicide, after their farms failed to make any produce, because of lack of (severe shortage of water), the monsoon rains have failed to bring enough water to the fields, sometimes they failed to bring even a drop of water altogether. These poor farmers that depend solely on Agriculture to feed their families have no other alternative other than agriculture, a loss of the only means of livelihood they know of drives them into desperation, depression, and eventually suicide, they decide to take their own lives when they see no other option, leaving more people, especially members of their own families greatly affected for countless years to come.

Across Africa, severe droughts are becoming more and more common, sometimes a drought can last even years, causing a great deal of death, all livestock, cattle as in cows, goats and sheep begin to die, one after another, death of animals is then proceded by severe malnutrition in people, children especially suffer the most, they get stunted growth, and diseases like Kwashiorkor. marasmus, rickets and so forth. The list of problems created by lack of water is endless.

To meet the current urgent demands, good measures have to be put in place to make sure we have more drinkable water to use, measures like…

Harvesting of rain water, and storing them in tanks to use later when there are no rains.

Reuse & Conservative use of water, e.g. water used in cleaning dishes can be used to flash the toilets instead of wastefully pouring it away.

Controlling the amount of water we drill out of the grounds to allow them to rejuvenate. Water in the underground aquifers takes so many years to percolate, yet the rate at which they are being sucked out is a thousand times higher than the rate at which they collect.

Coming up with advanced technologies That enable the desalination of sea water at a very cost-effective ways, this will reduce pressure on fresh water resources such as rivers, streams and aquifers. Desalination turns salty sea water into drinkable fresh waters.

Planting more trees to curb the ever-increasing threats of droughts and famine, as the old saying goes, trees bring rain, they act as rain catchers, the more trees we have the more rainfall there will be.

Every human should keep in mind that we should all Conserve Water, because without it there can be no life!

Rubbish-15-No More Fish Left in the Seas

Haven’t our Oceans already been depleted of fish due to large scale trawling? Every single day large fishing ships scoop millions of fish out of the ocean floor. They do it so efficiently to such a point that there is not a single hatchling left behind. The only thing that the trawling ships leave behind on the reefs are the coral rocks, everything else that breathes is scooped away into these giant sieves called fishing nets. In some nets the holes are so small that only water molecules can escape, there are rogue fishermen using fishing nets that look like mosquito nets. Millions of animal and fish species have already disappeared from the oceans due to overfishing, and the few hatchlings that we see swimming in the area will be gone sooner than later. Some cultures would claim that they have a traditional cuisine based on seafood that goes back many centuries, and therefore have the right to go into the deepest of oceans to bring up every fish they could find so that their culture does not die.

Well, what makes you think that you are the only ones that have been consuming seafood for generations? Every other community in the world that lives in close proximity to the seas and oceans has also been consuming seafood for many centuries and millennia, all our ancestors and great ancestors were fishermen, we all enjoy fish everywhere in the world, so remember you have a right to the oceans as much as me and every other person is, it’s time to sit down now and talk some sense. If we continue with our current path, there will not be a single fish left in our oceans in the next few years. You realize that the situation of fish stocks is much better in rivers and lakes than it is in the oceans. This is because most rivers and lakes are enclosed within the national boundaries of some states and governments can easily monitor fishing activities within their fresh and salty water reservoirs. It’s much easier to regulate when the water body is located within the geographical boundaries of a single nation.

But the oceans are very open spaces, no single country can successfully police the entire oceans and regulate activities done in it, world governments do not co-operate on many other things let alone working together in combatting illegal fishing or overfishing. People have the false belief that the oceans are a vast underwater universe that provides an endless supply of fish. They think the oceans can never be depleted because it is way too big with too many fish. Every fisherman in every country in the world thinks this way. If their belief is founded on some truth, why then do they come home with less and less fish every new year? Shouldn’t they ask themselves this question? They should at least open their eyes to clearly see what is happening around them.

Large Fishing vessels constantly Patrol the shorelines of some poor countries with weak regulations looking for an easy catch, it’s either those countries are going through internal political turmoil and have no time to watch what’s happening on their coasts, or are under the yoke of corrupt administrations that cares little about the environment or simply lack the financial resources they need to constantly monitor their maritime boundaries.

There are troubling stories in the media press that fish stocks in some parts of the world have already been depleted, the fishermen are moving to other areas in search for yet more dwindling fish. If a fishing vessel has to leave the maritime boundary of the country of its operations, cross vast oceans, the Atlantic, The Indian and Pacific Oceans, then reach the shorelines of a different country on a faraway continent then it docks on the shallow reefs looking for fish. That says everything, if they couldn’t catch enough fish while they were crossing the oceans then that behaviour tells you that the deep oceans have already been depleted of fish. In fact, many images and videos you see on nature channels of vast schools of fish swimming in the oceans were taken a decade or more ago, the situation is very different at the moment.

Rubbish-16-No Technological Solutions to the Plastic Waste Problem Yet

Are we going to get technology that will solve plastic problem soon enough? We have been seeing a lot of crazy technologies being invented lately. I am surprised to see some drone birds and bugs, there is a lot of technological advancements going into surveillance and spying these days, another crazy one that I see being pursued is cars that run on water. Yeah! I mean water only. You just pour into the engine any kind of water including the dirty water you used to rinse your clothes and the machine starts to move. If that day comes when you have to just pour water into a diesel engine and it starts running, then I would be glad to see it come to pass, it would be a day to celebrate for all humanity.

Another technology that is being overlooked is the one that can help us solve the Plastic Problem that has plagued our world. Thanks to plastic, we have improved our lives a lot, it’s because of plastic that food hygiene has improved in many restaurants and food stores, without it venereal diseases would be spreading today like wildfire, plastic is now everywhere, it has become part and parcel of our day to day lives. When you look around in your home to see that almost everything solid, liquid or gaseous comes in a plastic packaging, even the device you are using to read this text has plenty of plastic in it.

Humans created a very beautiful thing from oil, they only forgot to remember that something has to be disposed off once it has ended its lifetime. But it turns out that very thing you threw away refuses to disappear, or should I say decompose, nature had a very efficient way of regenerating itself, everything that lived grows old and dies, it goes into the ground where it decays and comes back to life in a different form, but some crazy smart scientists decided to create objects that do not decay so that they can be used over and over again.

They thought it was a wise decision at the time little did they know that the whole planet will be choking with their invention just a few decades down the line. You don’t need to be a genius to figure out that plastic is a daily problem everywhere in the world, yet governments, NGOs, Companies and individual scientists seem to be not putting enough effort into finding ways to solve this problem. Everyone seems to be minding their own business at the moment.

Our stone-age ancestors even though primitive always took good care of their environment, everything they used in their daily lives was bio-gradable, their homes were made of mud and thatched roofs which were basically plant leaves, they used mats and furniture made of wood, their clothes were from animals skins, well how beautiful was that? even though they didn’t know it then, they were the best human group to have inhabited the planet because they lived in harmony with nature and didn’t try to destroy it. That time when humans lived an ideal simple life that was respectable to nature is long gone, it’s never coming back.

It’s sad that the world spends much more money building useless weapons while the environment goes neglected, pollution from plastic and other substances in our surroundings gets worse and worse each coming year, yet no one seems to care enough to put the required brains and resources into solving the problem.

Rubbish-17-The Green Campaigns hampering development in the Global South

It’s kind of unpleasant to discuss the fact that rich developed countries in the global north are putting extreme pressure on developing countries to switch all their energy to renewables. And to our surprise, it turns out that the rich industrialized nations of the world cannot afford to switch one hundred percent to renewables. Where then do we think this conversation is heading? The rich man is asking the poor man to buy something that he himself cannot afford. How ridiculous these climate conventions can be?

It is a well-known fact the rich nations of today used cheap dirty fossil fuels to industrialize their countries. The industrial revolutions of Britain and North America depended entirely on fossil fuels, Germany, Japan and China also started off with fossils for decades before they later cleaned up their energy industry and the environment. ''pollute first then clean up later'' has always been the policies of all these rich countries that were way ahead of others, there has been no cheaper alternative. It’s these rich countries that are putting pressure on developing countries in the global south like in Africa and southeast Asia to stop exploiting their coal, oil and gas reserves, they promise to support them in their endeavour to start off with clean energy. They are assured that they can easily jumpstart their development projects by starting off clean. Well, is this really possible? How affordable, efficient and reliable are the renewables?

First of all these countries especially in Africa don’t have the industries or technology to manufacture their own renewable tools at affordable prices, so they rely on rich industrialized nations to manufacture for them wind turbines and solar panels. Things they often have to buy at exorbitant prices and therefore driving their countries deeper and deeper into debt. This is a menace that has led to the continuation of the vicious cycle of exploitation.

We are hearing the news that these well-off countries are reopening their fossil fuels industries claiming they are facing energy shortage issues because of current geopolitical tensions. They are back to doing things they have been campaigning against all these years. They have been lecturing Africans on the importance of having a hundred percent clean energy in their countries, it’s sad to see the dog going back to its vomit. But they claim that the current geopolitical uncertainties have forced them to reconsider going back to dirty polluting fuels for they guarantee long-term energy supply despite their deplorable environmental record. They undertake these programs all while building thousands of hectares of pricy wind farms in the developing world. Most of the developing countries are unhappy with the pressure they are being subjected to by the filthy rich guys from the global north. They are beginning to think that terms such as ''global Warming'' are just crafty words used by the advanced to prevent the development of the poor ones.

''if you say that it's greenhouse gasses such as CO2 emissions that are causing global warming, there is evidence that global temperatures have been drastically rising since the end of the last ice age, tens of thousands of years ago, human industries were not there at the time yet the temperatures kept shooting up until when all the ice melted, causing many animals such as the woolly mammoths and sabre tooth cats to go extinct. We were not there to cause global warming yet you are blaming us now?'' they say, they are really furious with the way they are being put under chains by the so-called green movements. ''Yes, you can just jumpstart your development journey by moving directly to green energy, that’s what they keep telling us, JUMPSTART WHAT? Why should we be bothered with these so-called clean energy yet they themselves can't even afford to switch completely to what they are demanding of others? Do you hear the hypocrisy here?'' the only way that this green thing can be properly sorted out is when the rich countries help the poor ones develop their own climate-friendly industries through financial grants, not economy crushing loans, or they should lead by example by switching one hundred percent to renewables, if they do that their words will carry more weight. Otherwise yelling at others without doing anything yourself is useless, they are seen as just another bunch of barking dogs that keep poking their noses into other people's business.

Rubbish-18-That air freshener isn't really Fresh

I believe you have some bottles of air freshener in your home to be used whenever there is a really bad smell lingering around in the house. Being constantly heavily marketed by the industry, these products are now common everywhere, there is not a home you will visit where you will find a detergent and not an air freshener. They come in all kinds of packaging, from metallic bottles to plastic ones, with all kinds of sizes, shapes and designs.

Many people however don’t realize that the word ''air freshener'' is a very misleading name. it doesn’t really make the air fresh. It is loaded with dozens of chemicals many of which are harmful to human health as well as the environment. Several decades ago, they used to contain chemicals referred to as CFCs, or also known as chlorofluorocarbons, thanks to the public awareness created by environmental scientists after discovering that these chemicals were contributing to the damage of the ozone layer. The ozone surface is the final shield that protects life on earth from harmful solar radiation. All the world’s governments agreed to remove these CFCs from all aerosol sprays at a sitting of Kyoto Protocol. Now the ozone layer is safe and we no longer talk about this problem anymore, another thing that is not being discussed is the fact that there are still a lot of chemicals left in those aerosols, many of which are still quite harmful to the environment as well as human health.

Ignorant folks blindly fill their homes with the smell of these sprays almost every hour of the day, not knowing that they are slowly destroying their lungs. Even with the smallest bout of an unpleasant smell, they rush for the sprays, this behaviour has gone to the extreme such that even when a new-born baby farts, the parents showers his bosom with a pound of spray. They don’t know that awful smell coming from the baby's diapers is better for their lungs than an air freshener, that stench from rotting food in the dust bin and a used toilet is better for their health than an air freshener. Sitting next to an animal carcass along the road for an hour is better health-wise than inhaling a single puff of aerosol spray. Even though the decaying animal’s smell may be utterly repulsive because of its bad smell, it’s one hundred percent organic. It may cause discomfort to your nostrils for a few minutes, it may cause you to feel like wanting to throw up, but that's all there is, once your respiratory track is cleared of this smell then you are good to go. There is no permanent damage left in your lungs, trachea or nostrils.

Its how mother nature designed it to work , every living thing grows old and dies and as soon as its dead, microorganisms begin to break it down to single elements or compounds commonly found in nature, its nature's way of recycling itself efficiently. Arousals on the other hand don’t contain hundred percent organic products, they don’t take away the so-called bad smell in your home after spraying, they only trick the nostrils into thinking you are smelling something different from what is actually lingering in the room. So when your kids pollute the air in the room because of a stomach upset, please do not run for the air freshener, it’s one of the slow poisons you have on your shelf without you knowing it, instead, you should open the windows to allow in fresh air if its daytime, or run the fan if its night-time to prevent unwelcome creatures from crawling or flying in through the window. Masking a smell of rotten eggs with an arousal spray will not take away that unpleasant smell, it only tricks your nostrils that you are smelling something that doesn’t exist, and in return leaving you with long-term breathing health complications.

Rubbish-19-The Green Little Kids of The North Pole

Once a bunch of green little Kids stopped attending their regular classes in protest of what was happening to the environment, they listen to the daily news briefing concerning nature and came to the conclusion, that there would be nothing left for them to enjoy in this world in their adult life. The people of today are doing so much destruction such that they have left very little for their own kids. These children no longer care what their teachers think of them, they care not about punishments like suspensions or utter dismissals from school.

Led by their cheeky leader, the green little kids went around their hometown campaigning for days in protest against harm being done to mother nature, they were ignored at first, '' some people even called them ill breed kids who had no direction and didn't even understand what they were saying,'' that they were acting out of mischief. But many more people however supported their cause of action. Even though they weren't the best educated scientists of the world, they were doing the right thing, which was to condemn inappropriate actions by man towards the environment that we depend so much on. Even with their little knowledge of scientific facts, they can still understand what is going on, they know very well that something needs to be done urgently to avoid a catastrophic future brought about by man himself. Their cheeky leader, even though she was barely learning to walk on her two feet, was able to rally tens of thousands of children in her home town, she persuaded them to boycott school and go onto the streets in numbers, they were determined to defy authorities both in their schools as well as in their local municipalities in order to bring attention to this global menace that no one seems to not like talking about.

Their infant leader dressed in only diapers at the time jumped onto a boat and sailed across the world warning the inhabitants of the globe of the great tragedy that will soon befall them should they continue with their current trajectory. Her words were echoed by millions of other youngsters who shared her concerns, she was welcomed at every port she landed and her words were taken very seriously even by people who were more educated than herself and many times older than her. Despite her age, she was incredibly brave, she feared no one or anything, she battered the fierce storms of the treacherous seas as she sailed from port city to port city preaching on behalf of mother nature. Her determination, bravery, and eloquence amazed everyone. even though she was an infant, she spoke words of wisdom, and said words that many grown-ups had failed to mention.

Her speech at the place where the rulers of the world gathered touched the hearts of many. Never before in history had a little girl who was barely learning to say the words, ''mama'' and ''papa'' stand up in front of the leaders of the world to lecture them. She talked down on mighty men of the world. Some of these leaders were so powerful that ordinary people would tremble when standing in their presence, yet she didn’t have a shred of fear in her heart towards them. She scorned them the way a mother would scorn her mischievous kids. The mighty men of the world even though they knew they were being insulted by an infant dared do nothing, they sat there quietly listening to the little girl, none of them dared interrupt her speech or oppose her reasoning because they realized everything she was saying was nothing but the truth. When she was done, the audience gave her a big round of applause, her choice of words was unquestionably brilliant. Everyone that met her after this amazing meeting congratulated her for bringing to the light issues that political leaders have continually swept under the rug. They thanked her for giving the rulers of the world a ''proper tongue lashing.'' a lecture they will never forget. They have been sleeping on their jobs for decades now, unwilling to lift a finger to help reverse the deteriorating environmental issues around them. It was important they listen to a lecture from the people they least expected, that is their own children.

It’s a good thing young people are very concerned about what is happening around them, they are furious for being robbed of their future, and feel that action should be taken right now. Well I don’t know if it’s the children that should be used in campaigning on behalf of mother nature while adults sit quietly in their homes doing nothing. The truth of the matter is that a lot of these grownups were like these kids when they were young, they were very passionate about conservation and tried to put all their efforts into the movement in order to make a difference, but the experience had been a better teacher for them. They had learned their lessons the hard way, that no matter what they did as an individual it would never make a dent. All their howling and screaming with placards on the streets made no difference. So they gave up and went back to their homes.

Not unless there is a complete reshuffling of the current socio-economic structures nothing much is going to change. You see, politicians only do what their country's industry demands of them and pass laws that favor their country's economic outlook, money comes first and everything else follows, the people who elected them into office expect them to create more jobs and bring wealth into the country, making more money for the country and its people is always a number one priority and they thrive to achieve it by all means while in office, however polluting their programs may be. They cannot risk losing popular support by approving environmental programs that bring no immediate economic value. All politicians are held between a rock and a hard place over this matter. It’s not as simple as it sounds. Not unless there is a complete overhaul in the industry on the way humanity extracts and consumes energy nothing much is going to change. We will keep going to climate conventions year in year out without achieving anything.

It’s very encouraging that young people of the world are taking a serious approach towards this issue, with environmental science being enshrined in most school curriculums across the world today, young people are being exposed to this matter at such a tender age. So let’s hope they will use their fresh young minds to devise ways and invent technologies that will help humanity reverse the catastrophic results brought about by environmental destruction.

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Footnotes.

My most used/favourite stylistic features

- Sharp contrast

- Heavy metaphor

- Extravagant exaggeration.

The reference to masculine characters In the above stories is not a biased motive to discriminate against any gender, it's just for the purposes of description, the authors repeated use of words such as he/him/man/king are just for the purposes of enchanting the narrative, if you feel offended by them then feel free to replace them with whatever words you choose as you read along, these pronouns are NOT put in place to intimidate, you can also contact the author directly and specify which part should changes be made to and to what particular effect, the author respects all readers and will not misrepresent members of any class, age, status or gender. All readers are precious.

I am trying to avoid the inconvenience of having to jump from one side of the group to another as it easily puts the readers off, jumping from side to side, back and forth, here and there is really irritating, take for instance it's better to say, "the king came out of his castle, called the knights and asked him to take him out on a ride through the royal forests and left his son in charge of the castle," than to say, "the king/queen came out of his/her castle, called the knight/knightess and asked him/her to take him/her out on a ride through the royal forest and left his/her son/daughter in charge of the castle"

Textual homogeneity- some aspects of the words, phrases and stories share lots of similarities with one another, the keen reader who repeatedly crosscheck between different tittles will definitely notice this trend, if characters are portrayed in such a sluggish manner that makes the text boring to the reader, then reader please remember to inform the author as soon as possible.

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