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COLONIAL CONTEXT- KENYA
The effects of climate change related with power imbalances and footprint reflecting to my economy relating to colonization.
In former times, Kenya had a low ecological footprint due to the environmental friendly practices executed by its inhabitants until colonists the British touched base and started exploiting her virgin ambience. This in turn brought about massive industries that used fossil fuel and or wood as a source of energy, motor vehicles and many more activities that emitted a lot of carbon dioxide, rather greenhouse gases.
We in turn who had a special connection with the environment gave it a deaf ear and continued violating it by mimicking the colonizers ways. I for one stand accused of following this trend and having an ecological footprint of up to an average of 9.3 tonnes a year.
My country still thriving to be developed, carbon emissions are guaranteed to be higher because of little to less knowledge of clean alternative sources of energy such as wind power, biogas and solar energy. More over it is argued that it is more likely to suffer a severe lash of climate change.
Take for instance decreased rainfall levels and increase of temperature which in turn causes low water levels in dams enough to sustain the pressure to move turbines able to generate hydroelectric power, hence fallback to the combustion of fossil fuel which include the use of huge generators that emit a great deal of greenhouse gases which is devastatingly the byproduct driving us. Once these fossil fuels are depleted our only source of carbon dioxide ‘eaters’ which are trees will be depleted worst case scenario causing abundance of the area that will be then deserted resulting to congestion in a particular area.
Bottom line is we need to outsmart climate change or climate change will swallow us whole.
