Ozone Layer Depletion-If we Do Not Act now and Appropriately…
Experiencing First-Hand the Result of our rascality and some analysis
Just about
February ending this year my children came home and I noticed that the color of
the water which use to spackle now had a dull ash-color that irritated me; as I
wondered how the bore hole owner could allow his water to get that dirty and
had the effrontery to collect money for it and instantly I ordered about 40 liters
of water already fetched to be deposed into the gutter and water collected elsewhere.
You may wonder how someone living in Lagos
be fetching water from commercial
bore whole operator. Well less than 10% of the 19 million population managers
of the city claim have standard pipe born water! You can imagine Lagos in this
state what the rest of the country could offer. Back to the ash colored water,
There after the water got a bit better, few weeks after, the water was back to
ash color! I guess that the bore whole operator also was at a loss what was
wrong; to cut the story up one morning virtually all the surrounding bore holes
were dried up it was as if a famine descended on the immediate neighborhood!
You can’t imagine the panic the government has no water so the only option
would be far ponds that had shrank to
all time low; well was out of it since
bore holes which were much deeper dried up it meant that surface water had long
dried out.! For those who do not know Lagos, it is a coastal city close to Atlantic
to the extent that everywhere you dig you get water for these waters to dry up
means something terrible had indeed happed or happening. Of course you don’t need
a lawyer to prove what is happening even from 7:30 am the sun shines with a
bite that is amazing and if you are so stupid to be on road from 11am to say
5:30 pm you understand what roasting of human being means or try to remove your
shoes to walk on bare cement floor your foot would be roasted! Right now water
is being peddled in Lagos at almost four times what it used to be! What is more
I have no doubt that this is just the very beginning! In a day sometimes I
berth over five times now! A friend of
my who lives in a decked house told us
what ordeal that awaits him day and night since the deck conducts the heat
strait to all in his house including bed mattresses upholstery each of them as
hot as roasted yam! The summary of this is that the trouble we brought upon all
of us is here and we just can’t run away from it, never! We have cut so much
trees and have pumped in so much carbon dioxide into the ozone layer that it is
incapable of shielding the sun rays and radiation on our behalf!
Possible troubles on the way
Ø As the
temperature keeps rising medium altitude
and high altitude areas of earth would lose water supply, either they
have to dig much deeper or abandoned whichever the case water would get out of
reach of most of world population especially in developing world and under
developed world which would lead to people drinking water from whichever source
the world should be ready to deal with more water born disease as well as possibility
of new water born disease!
Ø If for any
reasons the rain also fails to fall properly
then the world should get ready for
hunger art a scale never envisaged as a result of failed cropping and draught!
Ø If our
punishment is to reach its climax of total disaster for all the sun might come
up with solar flare of above normal average or the super flare then at last our
nuclear bombs would not be necessary to burn down the little green planet!
Possible Way of resolving the challenge
Planting of trees
While this
is a step in the right direction but it
is late! For instance how many trees can Lagos city managers plant by the road
sides to compensate for millions of trees cut down to form this city!? While tree
planting should continue it is vested with so many problem and even if all
buildings in Lagos or even half of the city is destroyed to plant trees it
would take several decades to have something reasonable enough to care for the
earth. But we didn’t have decades to enable us plant trees and even if we have,
decades it is impossible to destroy 50% of the houses in Lagos since even with
the current housing we are not getting enough shelter for the people in the
city!
Stop pumping carbon Dioxide into the atmosphere
How are you
going to stop pumping carbon di-oxide into the atmosphere without most of our
industries shutting down as well as most automobiles and even gen sets
deactivated!?
Pumping Ozone into Ozone layer
I and a
friend were considering the challenge today and I got thinking I am aware that
O3 can be produced in large quantity in laboratories across the globe if the
world is ready to burn notes instead of the Earth to be burnt! So I suggested
to my friend that Ozone O3 be produced in large quantity and if possible use
space shuttle to take it to the ozone layer to start the quick action of
repairing the ozone layer. My friend said that I was not the first to think
this that President Obama had even asked the US congress to give him money to
do the program but was denied the fund! I shouted why!? But I know why! Now once more I am calling on President
Obama, Mr. Ban Ki-Moon of UN, British Prime minister, Russian President, Chinese
Primer, Japanese Prime minister and indeed all world leaders to an urgent
summit to discuss how to fund the Ozone layer repair program. I suggest each
country pay according to GDP or any other parameter that experts could come up
with. It is either we burn the Dollars or the earth is burnt!
Igwegbe
Lawrence
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