Measures in solving environmental challenges

  

Date Posted: 11/8/2012 9:24:25 AM

Posted By: vann  Membership Level: Gold  Total Points: 1015

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If you have a reason to still be the cause of environmental pollution then maybe you still do not understand the benefits of a clean environment. Some research conducted recently to ascertain the percentage atmospheric pollution in towns and rural areas revealed that the urban centres are really polluted while the rural areas, especially where there are trees, are safe and clean. The air that we breathe in the urban centres are not good for human use and that explains why a lot of complicated diseases spring up in the urban areas as compared to the rural areas.

We therefore have that reason that should lead our energies and strengths to make sure that our environments are clean and healthy. This should start from your own realization that you need a healthy living. It costs nothing to take care of your environment. Why would you throw away used polythene bags into the rivers when you practically know well that it is dangerous to do so? Why would you cut and burn trees and bushes without a proper reason when you know how risky it is to leave the atmosphere blank?
Current research works show that the ozone depletion rate is still worrying and soon every living individual under the sun will pay for this cause. Industrial fumes have not ceased to annoy the atmospheric layer thereby leaving it thin, exposing the ozone layer.
We can start from doing the right and fulfilling promises to bring back our environment to life. Change you attitude and try seeing the environment as your own life holder.

The following measures have always been put forward as a means of trying to address the environmental challenges in Kenya.

1. Public awareness campaigns.
We need to educate the public on the importance of planting trees, proper waste disposal and other

relevant issues that should address environmental problems and how to solve such problems.
Outreach and education.
Education should be a media or channel through which students are taught and sensitized on the environmental issues. I believe that these initiatives have been started in many schools and the results are being counted already.

2. Tree planting.
Tree planting is a very equally good method to help conserve our environment. We should lean to plant more and more trees whenever we have that time to do so. My motto is always that, ‘If you did not plant a tree 20 years ago, the best time to plant a tree is now’.

3. Clean-up campaigns.
Various organizations and groups responsible for environmental conservation have been doing the noble job of cleaning the dirty estates and sensitizing the society about this activity.

4. Community Participation.
Local participation in the identification and implementation of development projects is essential since the complex interaction between social, cultural, economic and environmental factors are best understood by those involved, and their contribution to the planning process would promote the preparation of appropriate development strategies.

Participation can be direct or indirect. It is seen as a process by which local people become managers of their own development and are simultaneously becoming more empowered. Participation entails the involvement of communities in designing, planning, implementing and the evaluating their resource development programmes. Thus a major hindrance to community participation has been the attitudes and behaviour of the public sector development workers.
In retrospect the encouragement of local communities to participate in conservation practice should be given priority so as to ensure a sound foundation upon which relevant environmental policies could be effectively implemented.

Other possible solutions that could be used include;
- Creating awareness of environmental challenges and solutions

- Promotion of best practices

- Dissemination of environmental messages through mass and folk media.

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