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Dearbonize Decolonize..FINAL REPORT,4C
CLIMATE CHANGE ISSUES AND EFFECT OF COLONISATION
Land grabs and food security are side effects of the fightagainst climate change.Cabon trading one
of the biggest weapons toutedby governent and business in the global fight against climate change
could end up killng the planet.Tropical forest absorb huge amount of atmospheric carbon.By plugging
investments into large scale consevation of forests ,carbon trading is supposed to help reduce
global emissions and mitigate climate change.According to some villagers ,the company had engaged
in a litany of abuses : destroying their homes to clear land for new forestry plantations ,arresting local
inhabitants for trespassing onto company licence areas ,confiscatig animals straying into those areas
,planting trees on designated community land whoe boundaries are disputed between local and company
employees , frcing villagers to relocate grazing and agriculture in ecologically sensitive areas .
By losing access to forest ,the community had lost its primary mean ofgenerating income ,accessing
medicines and firewood ,and acquiring water holes for livestock.In all such cases ,the imperative
to conserve existing forests or to establish new tree plantations in unforested land is systematically
encroaching on the lives of longstanding indigenous communities.
We childre an spread awareness about thisissue among people .We can ensure that we consume less
electricity .Wemust use pollution free tranporting devices like bicycle for travelling.We can plant trees
around us and take proper careof them .Trees have a major role in absorbing CO2.
