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A quick note to Etelle Higonnete on why ultimately, it is us humans, who are at risk, existentially, not the planet earth

Feature Article A quick note to Etelle Higonnete on why ultimately, it is us humans, who are at risk, existentially, not the planet earth
OCT 28, 2022 LISTEN

Etelle, pity we still haven't managed to talk yet. Bad weather conditions, in the part of the Central Region of Ghana where I currently live (Gomoa Buduburam), have disrupted Ghana's complacent telcos' broadband Internet services here, alas.

Be that as it may, we aren't sleeping: The battle is joined, and, we have the advantage of lion-heartedness on our side - against those who profit mightily from selling the toxic agrochemicals killing us slowly here, to the large-scale commercial mono-croppers, whose chosen agribusiness model, has wrought such egregious-destruction, environmentally, across the entire landmass of the sovereign territory of the Republic of Ghana.

As a wise and aspirational African people, we must definitely end mono-cropping, and convert to organic farming underpinned by agroforestry principles, as soon as practicable.

As it happens, my dear friend and kindred-spirit, Issa Ouedraogo has the perfect agrisector social impact business model, bedrocked on agroforestry principles, which can be replicated nationwide, to convert all farming in Ghana to climate-resilient climate-smart organic farming.

Issa's agrisector social impact business model, provides a perfect local green solution, for a perennial local food security assurance challenge, at a time when rural Ghana is being impacted so negatively, by global climate change.

That is why for common-good public health reasons, concerned environmental activists in my native Ghana, are determined to end the baleful influence, on our ruling-elites, of the powerful big foreign corporations, which have shown so clearly that they love filthy lucre, more than committing to being guided by ethical ESG common-good-sharing values.

Fair profits earned through protecting and enhancing all life in our shared-home, our biosphere, is the only way forward, for a heavily polluted planet threatened by the unfathomable greed that drives the Moringa's of this world.

Ultimately, environmental activists worldwide will prevail, because it will become clearer and clearer to the world's climate-denying doubting-Thomases (amongst whose ranks, one counts your own nation, the U.S.A.'s blind and narrow-minded fascist Trumpian-MAGA-folk), that humankind will end up becoming extinct if we don't stop being beholden to the world's 1-percenters.

We must stop acquiescing to their ruthless and relentless drive for endless profits, at the expense of the welfare and well-being of humanity and Mother Nature.

It is this that informs our own fight here in Ghana, to get Moringa's undeserved role, as stewards of earmarked agroforestry funds for Africa, taken away from the washed-out racist French greenwashing-carpetbaggers, who run it in Ghana. But I digress.

The bald truth, is that the destruction wrought by the world's 1-percenters is widespread. They must not be allowed to continue getting away with it - in their ruthless and relentless pursuit of profits.

What all humans need to understand, clearly, is that Mother Nature is incredibly resilient. Ditto that barring it being smashed to smithereens by an object from outer space, there can be no doubt that even if it ends up becoming uninhabitable, today, for humans, in a few million years, hence, the planet Earth will have recovered from the harm wrought by humankind - and will be thriving, once again, sans unthinking and selfish humanity.

So, my dear lion-hearted Amazon-Queen friend, Etelle, ultimately, it is us humans, who are risk, existentially, not the planet Earth. Simple, really. Cool.

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