The Global Environmental Development Platform

  Last week, I wrote about the root causes of global warming and climate change, which are mainly migration, urbanization and overpopulation. The second major root cause is deforestation. Deforestation is the indiscriminate removal of vegetation and forest cover from the earth’s surface. As more and more trees and plants are cut down for building and construction purposes, the atmosphere and environment suffers greatly. Trees and plants give out oxygen while they inhale or take in carbon dioxide. Human beings on the other hand, breathe out carbon dioxide and inhale oxygen.  So, you see,  there is an interaction between plants and humans. What they exhale is what we inhale,  while what they exhale is what we inhale. Therefore, the need to have adequate vegetation cover in the form of grass, shrubs, flowers and trees in our immediate environment can’t be a overemphasized. The presence of green plants contributes immensely to public and individual health. Secondly, conserving vegetation c

  Like I have often said, the battle with global warming and climate change can only be won only if we get to the root causes of these reverse trends. We can’t talk about ameliorating or mitigating these situations without first addressing the issues that brought about these changes. First and foremost, the issue of migration has to be dealt with. This I believe is the major root cause of global warming. There are many reasons why people move from one city, town or region to another, and there are also factors that propel or pull people from one place to another.  The search or quest for better living conditions is one of them. When a region or city has become the center of economic and commercial activities, this has a tendency to pull people from other regions to it. Then a trend begins. Migration from less, or no economic or commerce regions begin to occur and you find people moving in droves from the country or villages to the cities and towns in search of business, better jobs, ho