Happy Earth Day!
I am one of those people who grabs the phone when I wake up in the morning, sometimes I feel it is unhealthy. Anyway, that story is for another day, so on opening my phone I was puzzled by Google Doodle and I tried to find out and realized it is a celebration of Earth Day 2022.
This year’s celebration draws attention to an imminent danger this world is facing as a result of climate change.
To show the true impact of climate change, they presented a real time-lapse imagery from Google Earth Timeplase and other sources, the Doodle shows the impact of climate change across four different locales around our planet.
The most impactful for me, I guess as a connoisseur of photographs and images is the images of Mt. Kilimanjaro, in Tanzania, which shows how the glacier has been retreating with the presentation of images taken every December from 1986 to 2020.
Thanks to Google’s might, the severity of climate change was brought to the attention of the world once more, the issue begs for urgent attention. Attention at the global and local scale.
Why the attention? According to The Institute for Security Studies (ISS) a regional human security policy think-tank with an exclusive focus on Africa, climate change has been identified as a leading human and environmental crisis of the 21st century. The problem of understanding climate change (or global warming) is one of the major challenges confronting African people, their governments and the African Union (AU).
The main longer-term impacts of climate change in Africa include changing rainfall patterns affecting agriculture and reducing food security; worsening water security; decreasing fish resources in large lakes due to rising temperatures and overfishing; rising sea levels affecting low-lying coastal areas with large populations; and rising water stress. Read more by clicking this link: https://www.files.ethz.ch/isn/136704/PAPER220.pdf
What are the things you can do about climate change as an individual? In response to this question, Al Gore the 45th vice president of the United States of America said “Use your voice, use your vote, use your choice”.
To find out about personal steps you can take to combat climate change, check out the 9 things you can do shared by the Grantham Institute, an Imperial College London’s centre that works on climate change and the environment https://www.imperial.ac.uk/stories/climate-action/
Happy Earth Day!!!
