By Gaston RWAKA
The whole world continues to worry about climate change, in Rwanda, farmers have started to face a lack of rain when they should have started planting seeds.
The expansion of large-scale energy-intensive industries and the lack of forest conservation are some of the human activities that pollute the environment and have a significant impact on climate change.
In an interview with umuringanews.com, Ngarukiye Athanase, a resident of Kayonza Sector, Musumba Village, who earns his living from agriculture, says that if the weather does not rain, hunger will attack people more.
“Now the beans we had are over and the harvest season is approaching, we don’t know how the rain will go and we are starving, so we have no choice but to hang on, we have done what we can.” , He said
Venancie Mukasano, a farmer in Musanze District, in Kinigi Sector, confirms that they used to get enough rain so they farmed regularly, but as the days go by, the weather is becoming more and more disappointing.
He said, “Besides listening to advice thanks to the campaign to protect the environment, the government has nothing else to do because this problem of climate change is shared by the whole world.”
After observing all these issues of climate change and the impact it has on the farmer in his daily life, climate change expert, Dr. Gashumba Damascene said that all this is related to human activities in destroying the environment that he calls development.
Talking to umuringanews.com, Dr. Gashumba says, “We should not act like we don’t care because when we cut down trees to cook our food without caring about planting other trees, we are doing something wrong and it will affect us in the future.”
Dr. Gashumba strongly emphasizes the role of big industries in the world because they are the first in polluting the air where he asks the countries with big industries that are also in the first place in air pollution that they will pay compensation.
In order to explain how pollutants in the air of a certain country can pollute the air of another country far away, Dr. Gashumba tried to explain it using the phrase “The world is not crazy”.
He said, “When you are walking near the Nyungwe forest, when it rains, you will see clouds that look like smoke rising when they reach the sky and meet other clouds and they go without showing where they end, but the most important thing is that they meet with other bad things and mix and reduce the heat. .”
Those clouds that are reduced or eased from the heat are from the big industry that we mentioned above in our article.
The State Agency for Environmental Protection, REMA is constantly campaigning among the people to teach them to use their land properly, to protect the forests and to cut down the mature trees and leave them with new ones.
So far, in the figures published by the World Bank, it shows that Rwanda contributes to 0.003% of the air pollution.
