AmericaSpeaks TheVoiceOfJoyce In America we have the luxury to fight over water rights, in Africa 40 million are effected by starvation and no water. The African continent contributes 4% to Global emissions. One group ingeniously creates cooking bricks out of scrap wood to survive. More innovations are required to sustain life on the African continent. They , too, have flooding and no way to retain water, similar to Pakistan. Because of high Carbon emissions in China, US , EU and India and poor land management in many other countries, we’re all suffering. The day has come when COP 26 must be a meaningful assembly of Nations. When will all Nations have regional representatives discussing independent Nation problems with livable solutions?

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www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/17/vanessa-nakate-climate-activist-africa-cop27

At one hospital treating children with severe malnutrition, she met an emaciated little boy who died the following day. According to the World Health Organisation, an estimated 7 million children under the age of five are acutely malnourished in the region, which is experiencing the worst hunger crisis in over 70 years. “I’ve always said that climate change is more than statistics, it’s more than weather, but in Turkana I really got to understand those words.”

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