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02. Search the local newspapers of your country for articles about climate change.

Asked by: Wazo Hill | Makerere University

a) What kind of direct problems have been mentioned?

 

b) What solutions have been proposed?

 

c) What priority have these reports about climate change been given in the newspapers in your country?

 

d) Which headline caught your eye and impressed you the most? Explain the reason why.

 

e) Which headline would you give an article about climat change?

a) The direct problems that have been mentioned include the prolonged droughts in the North Eastern parts of the country commonly known as the Karamoja area and parts of the Eat of the country called the Teso region.

 

b) The basic solution that has been mentioned is to first return peace as the people there have for a long time been involve d in cattle rustling. It is also observed that climate change has escalated the problem cattle rustling and insecurity as the nomads keep moving from area to area in search of pasture and water which of course are had to get.

Also planting of trees as well as initiating irrigation and valley dams construction has been look at much as the most the said activities have not yet started.

 

c) Honestly, the News papers are kind of slow on the issue as this tends to be politicised and looking for poor performer which of course is always the politicians and the government.

 

d) No headline has caught my eye of late because as i told you most climate change impacts tend to be politicized and whenever horrible pictures are shown,they are given wrong interpretation,basing on politics.

 

e) CLIMATE CHANGE is the headline i would give an article because it sounds louder than other headlines i would give. This is because even when the word its self is said today,many tend to be still ignorant but it.However it is slowly but surely getting known to people.

 

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