Diaspora Discourse: If We Have Faith, Lets Act For Climate Change

 *DIASPORA DISCOURSE* 

With Davison Muropa

Ndikungonzwa vanhu vochema chema kuti kwapisa, when nezuro uno kwaingochemwa chemwa kuti kwatonhora. Zviri kumbo famba sei! 

Let me tell you. There is this invisible but deadly 

phenomenon playing havoc on Mother Earth. I don’t mean covid, but am talking of this scourge coined “Global Warming.” 

It may be a distant issue with most people out in Zimbabwe, but this nyaya is increasingly becoming the issue of the century in the developed world. 

The developed world have had it so good for the last two or three centuries, but the industrial development  they enjoy came with a huge cost whose disastrous effects and consequences are now being realised. 

We have and are destroying the world with our appetite for industrialisation and burning of fossil fuels. 

Coal drove the industrial revolution and oil acceleration put down the pedal. 

Now earth’s ozone layer is in disarray. If not urgently attended to the effect of the sun’s rays will destroy earth and all that is in it. 

The writing has been on the wall for a long time with some measures being taken; remember the banning of DDT about 40 years ago or that of hazardous fridge refrigerants about 30 years ago. 

But whilst the tell tell signs were read, new processes and new products brought new challenges. 

Plastic, an oil industry bye product, has reeked havoc on land and in the sea. 

Mombe yadya plastic sounds like a joke, but it is a serious environmental catastrophe. 

Fish too are eating plastic. Now the use of plastic carrier bags is being banned or  scaled back. 

The Paris Agreement (which replaced the Kyoto Protocol of 1997) was adopted in 2015 exhorting Mother Earth to take collective measures to contain global warming, particularly by reducing human induced green house and fossil fuel emissions. 

The question of the destruction of the world by humanity’s actions should be a serious concern for Christians. 

Tikazviti tiri vedenga, pasi rino harisi redu, dandaro racho rinoparara takatarisa, tichimirira kuenda kudenga. 

Till next week be blessed.

(Davison Muropa is a Zimbabwean living in Birmingham, UK)