Thursday 27 October 2022

A quick note to Etelle Higonnete - on why ultimately, it is us humans, who are at risk, existentially, not the planet Earth

Etelle, pity we still haven't managed to talk yet. Bad weather conditions, in the part of the Central Region of Ghana where I currently live (Gomoa Buduburam), have disrupted Ghana's complacent telcos' broadband Internet services here, alas.


Be that as it may, we aren't sleeping: The battle is joined, and, we have the advantage of lion-heartedness on our side - against those who profit mightily from selling the toxic agrochemicals killing us slowly  here, to the large-scale commercial mono-croppers, whose chosen agribusiness model, has wrought such egregious-destruction, environmentally, across the entire landmass of the sovereign territory of the Republic of Ghana.

As a wise and aspirational African people, we must definitely end mono-cropping, and convert  to organic farming underpinned by agroforestry principles, as soon as practicable.

As it happens, my dear friend and kindred-spirit, Issa Ouedraogo has the perfect agrisector social impact business model,  bedrocked on agroforestry principles, which can be replicated nationwide, to convert all farming in Ghana  to climate-resilient climate-smart organic farming. 
 
Issa's agrisector  social impact business model,  provides a perfect local green-solution,  for a perennial  local food security assurance  challenge, at a time when rural Ghana is being impacted so negatively,  by global climate change.

That is why for common-good  public health reasons, concerned environmental activists  in my native Ghana, are determined to end the baleful influence, on our ruling-elites, of the powerful  big foreign corporations, which have shown so clearly that they love filthy lucre, more than committing to being guided by ethical ESG  common-good-sharing  values.

Fair profits earned through protecting and enhancing all life in our shared-home, our biosphere,  is the only way forward, for a heavily polluted  planet threatened by the unfathomable greed that drives the Moringa's of this world.

Ultimately, environmental activists worldwide will prevail, because it will become clearer and clearer to the world's climate-denying doubting-Thomases (amongst whose ranks, one counts  your own nation, the U.S.A.'s blind and narow-minded fascist Trumpian-MAGA-folk), that humankind will end up becoming extinct, if we don't stop being beholden to the world's 1-percenters.

We must stop acquiesing to their ruthless and relentless drive for endless-profits, at the expense of the welfare and well-being of humanity and Mother Nature.

It is this that informs our own fight here im Ghana, to get Moringa's undeserved role, as stewards of earmarked agroforestry funds for Africa, taken away from the washed-out racist French greenwashing-carpetbaggers, who run it in Ghana. But I digress.

The bald-truth, is that the destruction  wrought by the world's 1-percenters is widespread. They must not be allowed to continue getting away with it -  in their ruthless and relentless  pursuit of profits.

What all humans need to understand, clearly, is that  Mother Nature is incredibly resilient. Ditto that barring it being smashed to smithereens by an object from outer space, there can be no doubt that even if it ends up becoming uninhabitable, today, for humans,  in a few million years, hence, the planet Earth will have recovered from the harm wrought by humankind - and will be thriving, once again, sans unthinking and selfish humanity.

So, my dear lion-hearted Amazon-Queen friend, Etelle, ultimately, it is us humans, who are risk, existentially, not the planet Earth. Simple, really. Cool.



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