Nigeria: How to Conserve Nature's Gifts Is Mankind's Main Challenge, Says Fashola

28 April 2015

Nature, according to records, has existed billions of years and, in all of this time, has supported various species, as it keeps evolving. It has been proven that nature does not need mankind to exist but that humanity needs to adapt to nature's evolution to survive. This was the thought process of the Lagos State Governor Babatunde Fashola and of various experts at this year's climate change summit in Lagos, reports Bennett Oghifo

Nature compels mankind to live by its rules and one step out of line could spell doom. For instance, people throw thrash into streams, rivers, Lagoons and even into the sea and most of these wastes wash ashore. The jetties/shorelines of all the coastal cities of Nigeria are always clogged with all sorts of solid wastes dumped into the waters by man. The sea cleans itself of man's trash and throws them back on shore. That is Mother Nature at work. According to Lagos State Governor Babatunde Fashola, "The greater challenge is ours, to understand how to conserve nature's gift, to adapt to nature's evolution, to mitigate against the hazards of the environment, and to seek for sustainability in all that we do." Governor Fashola, who stated this at the 7th Lagos State climate change summit that held in Victoria Island, Lagos, recently, declared that "Nature and environment have been here long before we came, many species have come before us and they have gone." The governor caused to be aired a brief documentary on Mother Nature's invincibility that was produced by Conservation International and, at the end of the playback, he said, "We have come and we will go. Nature and the environment will remain."

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