Man
is a slave to the environment and in his case to satisfy his unending
needs and wants, he has usually bring home the bacon to see that his
basic priorities are met either in a positive or negative manner. This
made man to obtain resources directly from the environment. No wonder
the environment have been persistently depleted and degraded by man's
activities. Recently, research has shown that flooding in Nigeria is
nature fighting back, this is however as a result of man's vigorous
actions towards the environment.
Over the years, instead of people to live in harmony with nature and preserve nature for sustainable development, it has become a factor to be conquered with. Its pertinent we realise that environmental degradations have supercede beyond transboundary and this made the international community to embark on a plan of action to preserve, conserve, maintain and protect the ailing ecosystem for posterity. The issues of enviroment is now in the limelight as it has occupied global,regional, national and international attention. Every country is now basically talking about the concept of sustainable development.
The recent flood that has plagued Northern Nigeria recently is a major sign that nature is fighting back and we're now facing the upshots as well as the repercussion. Over the years, global warming which brings about climate change has distorted the ecosytem. When the environment is heated up usually under a very igneous temperatute, the rate of evapo-transpiration increases subsequently. With time, the entire temperature of the earth increases simulteneously, this of course led to the high rate of increase in global temperature that culminated into melting of the glacier and ice in the artic and polar regions thus increases the volume of water and make that area more assailable and vulnerable to flooding.
Also, when the earth's temperature is heated up as a results of the emission of unwanted gasses like sulphur (iv) and carbon (iv) etc. There is a sudden increase in temprature, that which has a strong correlation with an increase in the amount of evaporation. Heated molecules migrate to the atmosphere and later condenses and comes back as rain. When this rain drops, it increases the volume of water bodies as well as the oceans, rising and falling of tides also increases. There would be a time where the water bodies can't stand such pressure other than to overflow to the land surface which culminated into the loss of lands and properties, soil nutrient loss, killing of biodiversities not to mention but a few.
Tansboundary environmental pollution should really be a subject of concern. That is the main reason behind the enactment or the provision of the National Policy on the environment of 1989. Environmental degradtions has no transboundary as the atmosphere is a constant variable. The recent flooding in Nigeria resulted from the release of the cameroun dams into the Northern Nigeria. Earlier on, the Cameroun agencies signalled Nigeria about the potential flood and that appropriate measures should be taken. The Nigerian authorities took the case with levity and no appropriate measures was taken and the dams eventually flooded.
Over the years, Nigeria have participated in somany conventions on the need to ensure environmental sustainability. Nigeria is a ratified member of a plethora of convensions and treaties under the the United Nation since the infelicitous koko toxic waste of 1988 that destroys many lives and properties as the killing of biodiversities.
Its hightime man allow nature to prevail as we can't cheat nature and we can't not change nature. There is the great need to note that there is only one mother earth, and if by any means it is destroyed, then man should bear in mind that he's jeopardizing his future needs as well as that of the generations yet unborn.
Over the years, instead of people to live in harmony with nature and preserve nature for sustainable development, it has become a factor to be conquered with. Its pertinent we realise that environmental degradations have supercede beyond transboundary and this made the international community to embark on a plan of action to preserve, conserve, maintain and protect the ailing ecosystem for posterity. The issues of enviroment is now in the limelight as it has occupied global,regional, national and international attention. Every country is now basically talking about the concept of sustainable development.
The recent flood that has plagued Northern Nigeria recently is a major sign that nature is fighting back and we're now facing the upshots as well as the repercussion. Over the years, global warming which brings about climate change has distorted the ecosytem. When the environment is heated up usually under a very igneous temperatute, the rate of evapo-transpiration increases subsequently. With time, the entire temperature of the earth increases simulteneously, this of course led to the high rate of increase in global temperature that culminated into melting of the glacier and ice in the artic and polar regions thus increases the volume of water and make that area more assailable and vulnerable to flooding.
Also, when the earth's temperature is heated up as a results of the emission of unwanted gasses like sulphur (iv) and carbon (iv) etc. There is a sudden increase in temprature, that which has a strong correlation with an increase in the amount of evaporation. Heated molecules migrate to the atmosphere and later condenses and comes back as rain. When this rain drops, it increases the volume of water bodies as well as the oceans, rising and falling of tides also increases. There would be a time where the water bodies can't stand such pressure other than to overflow to the land surface which culminated into the loss of lands and properties, soil nutrient loss, killing of biodiversities not to mention but a few.
Tansboundary environmental pollution should really be a subject of concern. That is the main reason behind the enactment or the provision of the National Policy on the environment of 1989. Environmental degradtions has no transboundary as the atmosphere is a constant variable. The recent flooding in Nigeria resulted from the release of the cameroun dams into the Northern Nigeria. Earlier on, the Cameroun agencies signalled Nigeria about the potential flood and that appropriate measures should be taken. The Nigerian authorities took the case with levity and no appropriate measures was taken and the dams eventually flooded.
Over the years, Nigeria have participated in somany conventions on the need to ensure environmental sustainability. Nigeria is a ratified member of a plethora of convensions and treaties under the the United Nation since the infelicitous koko toxic waste of 1988 that destroys many lives and properties as the killing of biodiversities.
Its hightime man allow nature to prevail as we can't cheat nature and we can't not change nature. There is the great need to note that there is only one mother earth, and if by any means it is destroyed, then man should bear in mind that he's jeopardizing his future needs as well as that of the generations yet unborn.
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