How to stem climate change

A Senior Lecturer in the Department of Geography, University of Ilorin, Dr. Usman Raheem, has recommended the planting of more trees as an antidote for climate change.

Raheem stated this recently while speaking at the sensitisation workshop organised by the 'Plant for the Planet Initiative' for students of Primary and Secondary Schools in Kwara State held at the University Auditorium Basement.

In his lecture entitled, “The Climatic Crisis”, the don tasked participants at the workshop and Students in general to imbibe the culture of tree planting.

Raheem lamented that the climate had suffered overloading due to the effects of fast and slow carbon released into it, urging that “it's time we start worrying about the future and create better atmosphere for sustainable climate”.

The scholar frowned at the rate of deforestation without adequate measure for replanting. This, according to him, is greatly affecting the society and identified flooding, water crisis and climate refugee as the consequences of climate change in the world.

Raheem also called on the participants at the workshop to emulate Felix Finkbeiner, a 9 year-old boy who initiated the 'Plant for the Planet Initiative' by encouraging each other to start planting trees.

In his own remarks, the representative of the 'Plant for the Planet Initiative' in Nigeria , Mr. Wale Bakare, pointed out that the aim of the organization is to ensure that by 2020, children in different countries of the world would have planted over 24 million trees.

Bakare, who tasked children to make efforts to plant one million trees by 2016, said that climatic crisis emanated through Water, Carbon and the Nitrogen cycles engaged in by humans.

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