Uganda: Our Leaders Suffer From Social Amnesia

23 September 2009
guest column

Kampala — The media clips of strewn-out cattle lying dead from drought in Kenya revived a sickening image of how the world environmental economy is really fragile for mankind, especially in the third world countries.

For quite some time, social thinkers have been questioning the insatiable human activities on the planet, warning that the ensuing ecological disequilibria could spell serious impact on human life. Yet, decision-makers have continued to shove away this concern as if it were a remote exigency. Politicians in Kenya shamelessly turned the rainmaking Mau Forest into a farmland and burnt its precious trees for charcoal, now triggering immense water shortages in Nairobi and general rain failure in large parts of the country.

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