Should we not become better stewards of the remainder of Ghana's priceless natural heritage?

Dear critical-reader, aside from it being in our own best interest to do so,  present-day Ghanaian adults, also owe it to future generations of our people, to become better stewards of the remainder of our nation's priceless natural heritage, by endeavouring  to preserve all our country's biodiversity rich forests, do we not?

It so happens that each time one comes across playful happy-go-lucky children, who so obviously enjoy working to earn money, during school holidays, one can't help hoping that all things being equal, they will eventually end up growing into hardworking adults, who are responsible and  productive citizens.

On such occasions, one invariably tries to imagine what life will be like, for ordinary Ghanaians, in the year 2074, for example,  when some of those schoolchildren will be reaching the sixth decade of being alive on the planet Earth,  as mature  adults.

The question is: In 2074, will the aforementioned school children be then living in a happy society, which is prosperous and equitable for all its demographics, when in their middle ages?

Conversely, dear critical-reader, in 2074,  would those selfsame schoolchildren of today, rather  have ended up struggling and  suffering  -  merely trying to survive as best they can, in a barren and hellish world, because of the egregious destruction wrought by present-day generations of adults, who tolerated the trashing of our natural heritage, in pursuit of GDP growth, and failed to examine what actually constituted those stellar GDP figures: as long as it fueled economic growth,  and made a powerful few individuals  super-rich entrepreneurs  in the process, and created jobs galore, but, unfortunately, with the benefit of hindsight, turned out to be  economic growth that occurred at the expense of the rest of Ghanaian society, generally? One hopes not that they will ever have to suffer such a fate as adults.

Surely, at a time when climate change is impacting our homeland Ghana so negatively, even as we speak (I was horrified  viewing a video clip of a tinder-dry forest, sent to me yesterday, by Ghana's foremost green entrepreneur, and its green economy's wealthiest player, Legon Botanical Gardens' brilliant CEO, Eugene Kofi  Boakye-Yiadom), to enable us avoid certain apocalyptic-future-catastrophe for our younger generations, should we not think seriously about protecting the collective  future of all our children, their  offspring, and that of their offspring's unborn children, today, through bleeding-edge innovation and creativity, one wonders?

Ditto,  for common-good reasons, and in light of all the above, as wise and aspirational Africans,  should we not become much, much better stewards of our nation's natural heritage, for their sake, and, for our own collective welfare, too,  today - by endeavouring to protect and preserve the remainder of Ghana's priceless natural capital, which our biodiversity rich forests (that in an era of extreme weather events,  are far more valuable than all the minerals underneath them, combined, incidentally), represent? A word to the wise...