The recent massive floods throughout South Africa are some of the climate change effects caused by human activities.
According to Maropeng’s spokeshominid, Harry the Hominid in Johannesburg, there are too many gasses collecting in the atmosphere and trapping heat against the surface of the earth.
These gasses, he argues, have caused the earth’s temperature to rise day by day and is called global warming.
“The result is climate change, with a number of nasty effects on earth like big storms and hurricanes, heat waves, bad droughts and massive floods. So all in all global warming is not a good thing, and threatens our way of life,” Harry explains.
That’s why we need to understand how our own activities cause these gasses to be produced.
“The exhaust fumes from travelling by car are greenhouse gasses. Gas, coal wood and electricity all burn fuel that causes smoke and gasses too,” Harry adds.
Harry offers the following tips to help reduce the effects of climate change:
- Whenever you can, walk instead of travelling by car. You can also share a ride with someone else or use public transport
- Eat less meat and chicken as the animals we eat also produce a lot of methane gas from the feed they eat
- Reduce your electricity usage by switching off lights and appliances not in use
- Use your own shopping bags, not plastic ones, as greenhouse gasses are emitted when plastic bags are produced
- Use less paper. Lots of gasses are produced in the paper-making process.
Details: Maropeng Marketing and Communications Manager, Lindsey Marshall (014) 5779000
