Sequel to the widespread misconceptions in the traditional African society that climate change and its impacts manifest only when the gods are angry, some students have, through poetry, debunked this and submitted that human actions and inaction were mostly responsible.
"We made it happened, burning of bushes, felling of trees and we accused the gods of chiding us in wrath, clean the land, clean the earth, stop the smoke in every form. If we all turn deaf ears, where shall we go from earth?" said Basit Saba of Ikotun Senior High School Lagos, in his presentation at the Poetry competition on "Combating Climate Change and its Impact in Nigeria", to commemorate the World Poetry Day.
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