i put. the bottle to. the literature invites us to see people in particular. is the final straw. right. to vote. on you tube. hello and welcome to the 77 percent my name is edith kimani and this week we have such a special edition on our show where we're talking about how we the youth are being affected by the changes in our environment coming to you from this scenic lake gorean national reserve right here in kenya. coming up on the show. we hear from but next on the topic

a young activist from uganda has joined the global climate movement to find out how much like community in kenya is adapting to climate change any lagos we meet young people on the beach and what they're up to might surprise you. we're here as i mentioned at least will gori which is a salt water lake in kenya as part of the east african rift valley scientists however warning that an ecological catastrophe is imminent if the water levels here continue to rise as we speak the lakes in this area at the highest level since kenya's independence in 1963 the water levels have been rising here for years but extreme weather patterns and usually heavy rains and human activities have made the situation even more dire for the people living here so i spent some time in the area and spoke to residents who explained how their lives have been affected by these climates a normal use. lake bulgaria so swollen from rising water

levels that the shoreline changes every day. we see this early on in our trip when the access road unexpectedly becomes part of the league. nearby we find. was just arrived to open her bond restaurant but it's been a dramatic change. here's what this water just came in with in one day i came slowly and slowly until it got to this level so without any notice you have to demolish within just a few seconds. china has already been forced to move her business once it's inevitable that she will have to move again and she's not the only one the structure we're looking at is an entry point that was erected by the kenya wildlife service after their original gates was submerged by water 800 took 3 months before the lake eventually caught up with this one and we can clearly see that this water is unrelenting what we can't see but because certainly smell is the sewerage that's also being brought to be this because obviously people here use pit latrines and

all their contents are now under water and the water is clearly unrelenting because all around us the ground a soggy and these little goons all over the place. the extent of the flooding. has been the worst. folks grew up on the shores of this. work has been. significant.

we're here. to call catastrophe waiting around the great value region have been rising dramatically and what you can see behind me is actually one of the facts. hotels hospitals and schools all drowned by disasters. which are causing most people argue that this is actually an effect of climate change. scientists. destroy the ecosystem. to understand what is happening to the head to the forest. to the river. recovering from.

has been. he says the destruction of the catchment areas is just one. so what that means is every single day you have heavy grazing and that is really prominent around the ringle basin up in the hills on the side so all of that a rose is being washed off routinely so in 2018 we had rainfall which was the equivalent of el nino in 1908 then followed last year by these extraordinary rains which have continued for a whole year so that means degradation. huge amount of runoff and still to cherish and it's the combination of those 2 that have made these rift valley lakes and even other areas like amber sally just lift 10 sometimes 15 meters. back into the storm bring. the ocean.

is visibly worried and soon how worst fears are realized the water level has gone up again this could be her last day. if the following day and construction has started on higher ground this is where china gets new home and business will be . it's a fresh easy stuff no one can be sure to what to watch right this high because no one believes the water would ever get as far as it already has. all right so we've heard from people here how the rising water levels have affected them and with me is mr han he's actually a farmer it's his father used to be at least just a couple of meters from where we are and i wanted to find out from you mr how has your life changed since the water started coming into your life actually. we have been under the problem. of what long time since the beginning of this year alone

this what the started from. this place how far was the leak originally before then. and from where we're sitting where we are standing. now personas could we just be just what we. just left. a world where your. location. location. so we have internally displaced persons within. the supplication because of these water levels but also your harvest you told me that you very quickly had to go into the water and get your means when the water was up to here what are you doing about your livelihood i mean that was your harvest we just tried. very small number because of the we have. which is being overbearing to 13 people not

even to. the though it's a small missiles we try to get. people who are just we have this war that it's. a lot of. so your homes your means of life but i can see that there is a gentleman here who's fishing is this now what you're doing because you started off as pastoralist then the weather was bad there was drought he's decided you want to become a farmer and now you're becoming fishermen you see. community we used to be possible just but because no like we see the fishes there is a little fishy and what's in there is also a while and more people. crocodiles but because of drought. people awful lot of. problems. but they're willing to come to get no it's this is this is fish so people are sort of fishing but not all of them some very

different. well they don't like doing fishing but because. you're forced to change your way of life ok and finally you talked about hippos and crocodiles is this something that you're having to deal with human wildlife conflict how close to the hippos gets and the crocodiles. so in this water as we speak these people as we speak know there is a lot of people's there's a lot of. people living or in fact. people who come close but. this was sort of this one because. of. this one so there is a big problem the. conflict well mr henry love her you know we really thank you for your time and i'm really sorry for what is happening here thank you. now while

people here are trying to come to terms with the changes happening here many of us are adapting our lifestyles to the changing world around us in smaller ways further south from here in iraq we met sally not in chorley who told us about how she and particularly the women in her math community are adapting to climate change. lives in. a small settlement 140 kilometers west of kenya's capital nairobi. she wants to raise awareness about climate change and community. long droughts and unpredictable weather conditions related to climate change i want the biggest challenges the messiah now face. made me seen as experienced. but now. had to predict train predictive in the way that the grazing lands becoming more cus it's forcing the masses to keep the lesser amount of cash so

limited those really made the most say be forced to move from being nomadic buster at least to looking for other sources of income. and when i get online your. family. the option of moving to greener pastures has always been the basis of the must ties way of life. but now sustainable agriculture can be a solution to address nutrition security in the messiah community selena now spends her time showing my side women how to grow spinach and other vegetables. but it takes a lot of effort to convince traditionally no matter how strong the title and finance the 9 year is now i have begun to think that as must a community we really need another tentative source of leveling hood and nutrition security food and nutrition security and i thought why not start crop climbing he said of just having to do you know my request to release him so now it's just

important to train a recipe for a our sources of we wouldn't nutrition security and even sources of income because you see crops you can you can from them at any time. with selena hopes to convince pacifically younger women in the messiah community because they'll be the ones bringing change to their families. yet. for me it's my generation that within a vision my eggs that are the 1st ones to go to scotland to get a formal education so it's up to us to educate the community and bring back the knowledge we have to share with them so that we can grow to give that there is the whole population would be left behind it's only the defeated people who have been laid and. expertise and the only ones who can do things so we really have to share this knowledge and that is what we are doing now. climate changes such as the

must rise lifestyle dramatically adapting to the changes could keep the communities going. now i want to take you out of kenya and broaden the view a little see climate change has really become a rallying cry for young people globally in 2018 a swedish teenager gretta to invoke spearheaded the fridays for future movements which saw students around the world demanding climate action from world leaders while we haven't seen huge climate protests on the african continent compared for example to some other parts of the world there are people who are working hard and dedicated their time to raising awareness and calling for climate justice the only problem is that it's sometimes harder to make your voice heard here in africa and here's why. vanessa narcotic she has become the symbol of the ugandan climate movement the 24 year old got involved in climate activism in 2018

after her country was hit by unusually high temperatures joining the worldwide climate protests vanessa camped with other activists in the freezing cold switzerland at the world economic forum's unfortunately she didn't get the same attention that other activists got she was cropped out of a published group photo and the incident went viral in an online press statement to hit back at racism in the media other activists joined in solidarity including donating bruno from south africa and gratitude from sweden you're focusing on climate activism from different corners ills you know the western countries but what you're doing wrong is try as much as possible to says out and it is the voices from the global south it makes us feel like they are up to these disasters in us he wouldn't be sending care for you but the incident didn't deter vanessa from

continuing her fight and drawing attention to climate change issues in africa. what's happened to be a positive thing because of how we responded to aids as optimus from up the gulf and it was our work and wants to use tools stand up and rise up and demand for action as well as our within the media and the public about the dangers of climate change. before the pandemic she also took her activism into the classroom at this school in central uganda she wanted to inspire the next generation to get passionate about the environment it's a message she says the children need to hear. the practical issues. and i believe that every kid deserves an opportunity to be in such a close to clearly understand the importance of the things that they see in their environment these kids understand they clearly knew they were going to see this

tree but if you come into that class and teach them and remind them that keeps them our lot and our way out of the destruction that causes that that goes on in their environment and pushes them to go south. since the start of the pandemic the knesset has kept up her activism online and she's used her social platforms to draw attention to issues such as climate education climate catastrophes and clean energy vanessa has also found her voice on an international stage. leaders must acknowledge that we are in a crisis i'm stuck treating it as a crisis. the people on the planet must come 1st before anything else if you do not treat climate change as a crisis then you will not do what is necessary for us to get out of this mess.

vanessa believes that climate change is intrinsically tied to poverty hunger and conflict and she hopes that the leaders both at home in uganda and abroad will act quickly enough to change things. the world produces more plastic than we need and we see it everywhere actually even all around me in 2017 kenya introduced one of the world's toughest laws against single use plastic bags in fact you can even get fined for carrying one rhonda has gone a step further and they've also banned plastic bottles straws and even coffee cups and the reason for these measures is that most of the world's plastic ends up in landfills or oceans or places like these it's estimated that by the year 2050 there will be more plastic weight in water than fish so we asked our correspondents from across the continent how their countries have been dealing with plastic waste and management littering is illegal and city authorities priority target the culprits

there's currently no law that prevents people from using plastics or littering wonder is such 1st fully implemented and to littering laws but zimbabwe soon needs to do more. like many emerging markets around the world nigeria is generating more ways than ever this is because the population is growing and people are consuming more than they used to research shows 2 that nigeria is among the top 20 countries in the world with the largest share of plastic waste that ends up in the ocean and estimates at 200000 metric tons of plastic waste is this chart from nigeria into the atlantic ocean. every year. is uganda's capito campolo a clean city that's a great stopping of discussion where. some parts of the city are really clean well maintained. can reflect the exact opposite

it's common to see a plus a good to be thrown out of a speeding car or dumping garbage in a drainage but a city looks a bit much more organized than it was. literary of any nature is a big challenge for the modeling though until literary laws exist then he's very weak if you go on the streets there's a hardly enough rubbish bins and people end up throwing litter anyhow the end result is the cadence of water borne diseases like typhoid and quality. well there you have it there not enough laws preventing people from littering and in many cases there are no proper waste collection or management facilities provided by governments of cities who really should be picking them up luckily there are always a few people who are willing to volunteer or do something for their communities so

let's have a look. well that's impressive skyline on expensive yachts the. picture of luxury but only have. reviews that science is a cesspool of pastika waste. mental activists called eco troops fighting against it . since 21000 to protect the environment and the people. fish of the water that we eat on the ground we are looking out for what we are looking for in a look at. the end of our street with the flooding need to come. that. the activists go out once a week to clean up the ladder it's estimated that $12000.00 metric tons of waste out drop here every day then go where crispy to wrench their boots with their own money but the owners give them the marguerites to help. those who receives

help from me privately state schools or company which clears waste from the locker room for free plastic easy recyclable material much of it still ends up you landfill recycling last exist here but it's rudimentary. it's really just a dump like what we have pickers who go to the dump site and they then individually take out the things which have they have a lot of value i mean we were literally throwing away money. to pick them out take them they sell them off to the different people doing the recycling. up to a 100 workers help with the clean ups on a regular basis the activist want to foster more public awareness about the environment to help change people's behavior. if only people can imbibe of culture whereby you drink you play on your back that way you can find the drugs that.

equal pro has also started to collect garbage on beaches sometimes they manage to recruit extra fallen tears spontaneously. and about just about. 00000. my 5 smaller run goes much money it's just like you let me talk. while the volunteers continue the work they would like to see a reduction in waste and i would like to see the government in lagos step in then and also doing its bit. ok i've got a question for you what's your country doing about plastic waste you know we love hearing from you and you can always send us your comments via social media but we already actually had some from the facebook page and martin chipman from nigeria

wrote climate change scares me and banning plastic will help us i think i have to agree with you martin and was owned or from ghana wrote deforestation damaging of what a body is due to illegal mining activity is a lack of sufficient training for sudden floods are just a few of the issues we face with our environment and changing climate in my area well as usual thank you so much for those comments this show is really about all of us and our next report actually comes from ghana where our team met another person protecting the environment that's the up and coming musician miriam giallo you may know her by has stage name a.j. so let's take a look. maria. has just started making a name for herself on ghana's music scene. young musician who has spent her life both in sierra leone and ghana is passionate about music but you also have strong opinions about how we're treating our environment. is just full

of positive but when you cut it down it's leads to pollution of air interest directly to the soil water we drink we use the air we breathe. air pollution everywhere so i believe if we keep our environment green. we're safe. the greenery is the backdrop for the music videos and it's something she believes everybody should appreciate more. of. video beautiful expression of. chore you know. armstrong. yes gone. well that's all we have for you today we do hope you enjoyed our special show right here from lake bulgaria to get in touch with us and send us an e-mail at 77 d w dot com and connect with us on social media as usual we leave you with big to

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