It's ridiculous. First of all, in the States we do quite a bit of stuff to help the environment even if you don't think we do, we have emission regulations, we recycle and we have garbage dumps. Now, we do all this while there are still debates about whether or not global warming is actually occurring.
Here, everybody believes in global warming, it's on the radio, in the newspapers and people talk about it. They talk about how it's because of global warming that the crops aren't doing well. In the newspaper they always bring up proof for the global warming that is occurring here in Africa. So with all this "there is global warming and it's going to kill us" you'd think they'd be concerned with their impact.
Not the case.
- Vehicles drive down the road with absolutely black exhaust trailing behind them.
- People burn a ton of charcoal to cook their food.
- Trash is not taken to a dump to be disposed of, it is instead burned. All of it. On the side of the roads, in fields and in our backyard.
- When people are in cars or even walking, they don't ever look for a trash can, anything that they have that they don't want they just throw it to the side of the road. Culturally there just isn't any pressure to keep the environment clean.
- And, nothing is recycled.
- The only thing that is good is that they use glass soda (pop for all my Pittsburghers) bottles that you take back to be reused when you want another.
Ironically, the president of Uganda declared that Kampala should be dust free. Really? I highly doubt that's going to happen anytime soon. Anyhow, with them feeling all the effects of global warming, I don't think they're doing anything to clean the city.
Just my thoughts.
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