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'Mugabe a massive culprit in causing climate change'
04 Dec 2015 at 10:56hrs | Views
MDC leader Welshman Ncube has claimed that Zanu PF and rival President Robert Mugabe is massively contributing to climate change.
Ncube said Mugabe is a culprit in causing air pollution due to burning too much fuel by his frequent travels.
Writing in his weekly column, Ncube said: "ZANU PF's 35-year stay in power has seriously contributed to climate change.
"Their policies have impoverished Zimbabweans who have now resorted to the large scale cutting down of trees for use as fuel energy not only in rural areas but also in urban areas which should be lit by electricity, thus increasing the chances of desertification".
"Imagine that at my house in Greendale, Harare we have had no power continuously for two weeks now because ZESA is so much in debt that it is unable to secure a transformer to replace one which was burnt as a result of improper wiring barely a month after it was installed. I can imagine the number of families who have had to be using firewood for cooking in the last two weeks in my neighbourhood".
Ncube said from 2000, ZANU PF violently evicted five thousand commercial farmers and replaced them with new farmers, most of whom know next to nothing about climate change friendly farming.
"Rare indigenous trees have been decimated while rivers and dams are now silted. Year after year veld fires destroy large tracts of grass together with trees. In order to guarantee all-year food security, Zimbabwe requires wide-scale and intensive water preservation and irrigation.
"President Mugabe himself is a culprit in air pollution. In climate change science, we are told about 'carbon foot prints' - a euphemism for how much each of us contributes to 'pollution'.
"The leader of ZANU PF travels, everyday, with a convoy of no less than forty cars, all of them churning out tons of carbon monoxide".
Ncube said Mugabe is a culprit in causing air pollution due to burning too much fuel by his frequent travels.
Writing in his weekly column, Ncube said: "ZANU PF's 35-year stay in power has seriously contributed to climate change.
"Their policies have impoverished Zimbabweans who have now resorted to the large scale cutting down of trees for use as fuel energy not only in rural areas but also in urban areas which should be lit by electricity, thus increasing the chances of desertification".
"Imagine that at my house in Greendale, Harare we have had no power continuously for two weeks now because ZESA is so much in debt that it is unable to secure a transformer to replace one which was burnt as a result of improper wiring barely a month after it was installed. I can imagine the number of families who have had to be using firewood for cooking in the last two weeks in my neighbourhood".
Ncube said from 2000, ZANU PF violently evicted five thousand commercial farmers and replaced them with new farmers, most of whom know next to nothing about climate change friendly farming.
"Rare indigenous trees have been decimated while rivers and dams are now silted. Year after year veld fires destroy large tracts of grass together with trees. In order to guarantee all-year food security, Zimbabwe requires wide-scale and intensive water preservation and irrigation.
"President Mugabe himself is a culprit in air pollution. In climate change science, we are told about 'carbon foot prints' - a euphemism for how much each of us contributes to 'pollution'.
"The leader of ZANU PF travels, everyday, with a convoy of no less than forty cars, all of them churning out tons of carbon monoxide".
Source - Byo24News
