LETTER: Campaigning heats up but climate change is nowhere on any agenda
The ANC and Cosatu are steadfastly lacking any creative ideas about meeting challenges including climate change and poverty
Protests by the Extinction Rebellion, the climate change activist group, brought London to a halt last week. Similar protests about the lack of action by other signatory governments to the Paris Accord in other cities around the world were less dramatic. Meanwhile, here in SA, there has been nary a mention of the subject as the electioneering hots up along with our temperatures. Instead, our power stations, factories and vehicles belch ever larger quantities of carbon dioxide, oxides of nitrogen and other noxious compounds. In their book, Climate Change: Briefings from Southern Africa, Bob Scholes, Mary Scholes and Mike Lucas point out that climate change is taking place faster in SA than other parts of Africa. The western and central parts of the country are going to become drier while the southern and eastern parts of the country, Africa’s future breadbasket, will be wetter. Of course, swathes of this latter area are currently used to grow sugar cane, the derivatives of which caus...
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