Climate Change and Human Hazards: The Urgent Need for Positive Mindset Shift

The shifting of earth's temperatures and weather patterns characterizes climate change from a literal perspective. Over the years, studies to do with climate change have warned severally of its unspeakable consequences that have the capacity of weakening economies and rendering nations in dire need of help.

This is still the case, as issues to do with climate change continue to be on the rise and global south nations suffer most of its impacts. Human beings being at the center of the cause, the ordeal has seen nations and other stakeholders from various international bodies nestling together to achieve a common ground of addressing the crisis. Efforts in arriving at the ideal solution are far from conclusive.

The metamorphosis of the situation, together with the complexities of its details, has presented a situation that calls every individual to harness the power of behavioral change to at least turn the odds to our favor. The efficiencies in energy use and sustainable practices have promised to never be an easy battle to win.

Apparently one cannot deny its impacts, looking at for instance the loss in biodiversity in most of what used to be serene ecosystems. This has challenged the existing norms in our societies triggering events that present more dire and threatening situation to quality development of the young population and nations development in the long run.

Much as the work of climate activists cannot go unnoticed, it is again imperative to point out also that a lack of coordinated proactive action in dealing with the past causes of he present challenges, has been and is still a great source of despair. In the nexus of things, the implications of floods and droughts - common occurrences in this part of the world have never been news; thus highlighting the need for a more robust proactive approach, harnessing the knowledge of research to abate the situation. Case in point, political will being at the helm, we can never afford to blink an eye but address the situation with bare hands, all hands on deck.

Building strong communities and social connections to foster restoration
The premise of what follows after climate change, calls for holistic approaches in dealing with the source rather than the effect. Strong communities consist of shared knowledge and resources. Here is a community whose first line of defense in dealing with climate change is destroyed. Here’s an individual, who leverages on the actions of the elites and sees no harm in getting their own portion of the whole. Here’s an individual, that has all it takes to make their bed anywhere, finding the rare catchment resource useful to satisfy their own unsustainable agenda. And here is a policy, covered in the dusts of confusion, lacking clarity of implementation and success, helplessly failing to breathe life for the hope and life of the generations yet unborn.

Catchment areas in third world economies continue to face same predicaments, and in the end, our approaches remain the same in disastrous situations. When a city has no walls, it turns out to be a habitation of all sorts of things, both good and bad. Since knowledge is power, a shared responsibility is key to an imaginable success that can transform societies.

Notwithstanding, the structural societal change dynamics leaves a lot to be desired. The behavioral pattern of various communities in developing countries presents a predictable looming crisis, in fact, they’re red flags to the thriving economies. Previous escapades of cyclones, have left a handwriting on the wall for a political paradigm shift to assist in remedying the situation.

The certainties of individuals advancing to erect structures in catchment areas, duty bearers mercilessly qualifying such places as habitable not considering the repercussions of their actions is maybe enough to qualify such as a state of disaster in the context of the mindset. Before now, stories are told of how most catchment spaces used to be sacred spaces, the
indigenous knowledge was so embedded in the communal spaces such that one would not dare to encroach, such we had communities that shared a common knowledge sustaining their defenses.

These days, people are building in spaces where nature nestled a strong defense, then after a while, begin to bank on that of a lesser capacity in the hierarchy of nature, then you see the confusion in the event of heavy rainfall that unmasks the reality that they don’t want to hear that they themselves are their own hazards in the context of choices or thinking, what a paradox!

Apparently, the political hand seems to be far from reach. That we see occupants in most green spaces raises a lot of questions than answers. The question of land permits, that offsets associated risks, agrees with the notion of unresolved ideals within the system. On the same, the best controls that one would expect, the policies that emphatically underscores a green resolve that resonates in the minds of the gate keepers or say the custodians of the distinguished spaces calls for a review of its technicalities that would speak on the situation on the ground, bringing together all stakeholders and having a shared resolve. Notwithstanding, the policing of human behavior, without political will promises to be a herculean task.

Climate change, an opportunity
It is in the setting of the sun, that one remembers the place of his abode. Do people see climate change as an opportunity for restoration activities at all levels? If the contrary is the case, then we’re creating a hazard that will continue to haunt ecosystems in human form. The lamentations of various ecosystems at the mercy of mankind's activities cannot be overemphasized. There’s a sense in which consistently appealing to the mind having a positive correlation with the political will, might eventually breathe life to the green spaces.

However, one cannot bank on the assumption that there’s a straight line in dealing with the problem which has over the years gotten many faces. But, there’s a sense in the proposition that a strong political will provides an opportunity of giving our ecosystems a better chance of survival.

Climate change therefore stands as an opportunity for proactive politics that brings people together, having a shared knowledge and vision, towards building the strong natural defenses that kept homes, homes that kept the sacredness of biodiversity within communities and communities that passed on knowledge to its children, building a sense of pride and hope.