*Diaspora Discourse*
with Davison Muropa
If I’m sounding hopping mad about this deafening silence in Zim in face of the Armageddon of climate change, it’s because I am indeed really hopping mad.
There is a cost to development there is a cost to progress, and that cost needs to be identified and mitigated against.
Gone are the days of “Gombo iri ndarida, ndoto ririma chete ndione chinouya.”
No body has unbridled opportunity to do anything they want to do using Earth’s limited resources.
Resources in all their ostensible abundance, are finite.
This unchecked exploitation have a cost on Earth’s fragile biodiversity.
The UK has now realised the folly of unchecked exploitation of earth and its resources.
The UK is one of the world’s nature depleted countries with only 53% of biodiversity left, well below the world average of 75% and well below the 90% believed to be the threshold to stop the world from tipping into an ecological recession.
The foundation of life starts with the flora and fauna.
Looking at Scotland you see wide open vleis with vast expanses of grass, but with little or no trees.
This is a result of overgrazing by sheep farming that flourished for thousands of years. By the 18th century forests were virtually gone. Now all that left is peat hag, a gapping wound resulting from erosion.
Scotland is now trying to reforest its open landscape and barren mountain sides and allow the land to recover.
Zimbabwe’s hondo ye minda, if unmanaged, may result in a second round of land degradation that was experienced in the 1940/50s.
We need to wake up and yes, allow economic and agricultural development, but it must be managed sustainable development, not these unchecked and unmitigated they do thega.
Till next week, stay blessed.
*Davison Muropa is a Zimbabwean based in Birmingham, UK
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