10 years old climates activist, Miss Aderinsola Adegboye, of the the Royal Palm International College in Ilorin has advocated introduction of Climates-change study across Nigeria’s school curriculum.
Adegboye, Founder of “Return the Green club” initiative in Nigeria made the call while speaking on Saturday with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).
She observed that there is need to teach the future generation about their environment and actions that are capable of destroying it and threatening the existence of human and animals.
According to her, with introduction of the study, the children will inculcate the knowledge and the need to care for the environment.
“If the environment gets continuously destroyed, then we will all die too because it is what is sustaining humans, animal and plants,” she warned.
Adegboye described climate change as the periodic modification of earth’s climate brought about as a result of changes in the atmosphere as well as interactions between atmosphere and various other geologic, chemical, biological and geographic factors.
She noted that climate change involves not only rising temperature, but also extreme whether events, rising sea levels, shifting wildlife populations and habitat.
“Climate change melts the ice, making animal get extinct, reduced food security and prevalence of diseases and sickness,” she warned.
She therefore appealed to people to plant trees especially drought resistant ones, while advising government to implement policies to protect environment and need to empower the female gender.
Also speaking with NAN, Dr Oluwayemisi Adegboye, a Public Health expert with Kwara State Health Insurance Agency observe that climate changes are causing health challenges.
She explained that some novel diseases are as a result of encroachment of humans in wild life habitat.
“Food security is being threatened and becomes expensive leading to malnutrition and a host of other diseases as well as invasions of mosquitoes,” she lamented.
Adegboye who is also parent to the 10 year old climate-activist, Aderinsola, explained that the teenager started the initiative with a story she wrote about “Mother Earth”.
“She started with the family, where she inculcated in us to always plant trees. She had so far planted 15 trees and hundreds of flowers around.
“She also taught us the need to conserve water when not in use, put of the lights and appliances and avoid food wastage at home,” she said.
The Public Health physician advised parents to support their children in their hopes and aspirations, adding she will support the activist in her quest to save the environment.
