It is yet another Earth day commemoration. But this time for a lot of communities around the world, the events are being marked sombrely. Nearly all of earth's human citizens, over 7 billion of us are hunkered in waiting for the worst of this deadly invisible virus to pass. Lives have been lost, the global economy decimated as the disease now officially a pandemic continues to take no prisoners. At a time such as this, once the crisis is over we need to put aside our old ways of doing things. It has brought us immense benefits but also great harm. Our airs are polluted, watershed poisoned, some of the natural resources depleted to extinction. Unsustainable politico-economic system and population explosion being the major culprits. None is advocating communism but certainly, unregulated capitalism is equally as bad. Some studies have shown that deforestation pushes the spread of vectors. While epidemiologists are still working their way to understanding the novel vir
Spotlight on Climate and Environmental discourse in Africa