Climate change mitigation a must on our new year’s resolution list.

The year 2021 is ending in six days.While some people will breath a sigh of relief, many others have not so much .2020 has been one of the years humanity has faced major challenges emanating from an Emerging Infectious Disease namely COVID-19 leading to loss of life and livelihoods.Emerging Infectious Disease outbreaks are occurring at an alarming frequency and scientists have attributed this to the human destruction of ecosystems.Other signs that climate change is causing havoc can be witnessed all around us from the wild fires in the USA and Australia, draught in Africa, floods in Europe and Asia as well as the melting ice in the Antarctica.The Human instinct for survival compels us to take action and that’s why l am calling on each of us to take Individual action to mitigate against climate change. Our future survival as a species is dependent on our action.As we sit down to select on 2021 and enumerate our resolutions for the coming year;2022, let one of the resolutions be, to act against climate change.Simple things such as planting a tree, not using plastics, using sustainable energy can go along way in ensuring that the catastrophe that is bound to befall humanity does not occur.

I am committing to taking action; will you?