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Green Technology!

  Green technology also demands the need for environmental justice. This means that electric vehicle batteries are sustainably manufactured, and rare earth materials recycled. This goes for other electronics as well. Instead of just dumping these e-wastes in open dumps and landfills, or worst still, exporting them to low-income countries especially in Africa and Asia, manufacturers of these products should ensure and develop guidelines and policies to jumpstart and regulate the recycle and reuse of these e-wastes. According to the e-waste association of South Africa, the RSA alone generates about 6.2kgof e-waste per habitat annually and only 12% of these are recycled. Although, the UN has set aside October 14, every year, which was just a few days ago, for e-waste day to help address the issues and concerns regarding e-waste management, this current trend continues across boundary lines from high income and developed countries to underdeveloped and developing countries. And now, what i

The Way Forward...

I will recommend that as we campaign for our rights for a green environment, we should also have and maintain a thorough understanding of the processes that take place and give way to climate change. Climate action is good, but we need to get to the root of the causes why climatic conditions of a city, town or region are altered. First and foremost, what is climate? What do we mean by climate? Now, in this case, I am not asking about the weather; this is different. Although, a lot of people confuse the two, but there is a large difference between the two. Climate is the atmospheric conditions of a particular region, town or city for a long period of time of say 35 years or more. And so, if Warri in Nigeria, or Leeds in The UK, has a certain pattern of rainfall, or the average is say 30.0cm-35.3cm in both regions for the last 35 years or so, and there is a gradual increase which establishes another pattern of rainfall in the last 3 years and is measured at 45cm per annum, which causes s