Lots of drops make an ocean - I'm a drop today
A major crisis is going on and so far the Dutch government is deadly silent. Literally.
Across Niger, the world’s second-poorest country, drought has shriveled pastureland and swarms of the migratory grasshoppers have stripped it clean, leaving livestock-and the herders who depend on those animals-desperately hungry, some to the point of starvation. The shortage of fodder, the worst in Niger’s history, has wiped out whole herds.
www.oxfam.org/eng/pr050816_niger.htm
This is an acute crisis. While I strongly believe that we have all contributed to this crisis food is only the first step.
Re-foresting the next - and if another American scientist tries to tell me that there is no climate change I'm going to change his...and it won't be pleasant.
Plants are water-management...leave the jungle alone! It might be far away today, but if you look close enough the dangers is already closer to you than you think.
Across Niger, the world’s second-poorest country, drought has shriveled pastureland and swarms of the migratory grasshoppers have stripped it clean, leaving livestock-and the herders who depend on those animals-desperately hungry, some to the point of starvation. The shortage of fodder, the worst in Niger’s history, has wiped out whole herds.
www.oxfam.org/eng/pr050816_niger.htm
This is an acute crisis. While I strongly believe that we have all contributed to this crisis food is only the first step.
Re-foresting the next - and if another American scientist tries to tell me that there is no climate change I'm going to change his...and it won't be pleasant.
Plants are water-management...leave the jungle alone! It might be far away today, but if you look close enough the dangers is already closer to you than you think.