RE: An overview of Nigerian biodiversity: a buildup to the first ever STEMng meet-up
When I compare Nigeria to my country I feel it's over populated here and I often miss to be outside of town. Here in the northern part of Germany there is not much forrest left.
I see that you deeply care for nature and sometimes I feel desperate due to the fact that human kind has such a big impact on animal and plant life.
I feel of being of not much use as I am not an active environmentalist ... only writing on the blockchain sometimes even makes it worth ...
In the recent ten years or so I reduced my lifestyle to the max, so to speak. I decided against traveling by aircraft and put consumption to the most possible minimum. I do not need much to feel happy with what I have.
My attempt to protect environment relate to the human mentality, in which I express my will to use as few material things as possible to compensate through my concept of life.
We need a reduction in both demand and supply. In fact, the biggest hurdles are probably those of mobility and energy consumption. Just like a smarter and wiser use of agricultural land. Water retention basins in agriculture combined with a permaculture economy have long been proven to be more effective than conventional agriculture, but it takes a lot of time and patience to turn the findings into reality. For example, if we had terraced fields instead of flat ones, it would have been a start. Water management is becoming increasingly important. This summer's farmers are suffering from a lack of rain and water catchment basins would probably not have made the harvest so badly damaged.
... Society is like a dinosaur. Actually people have the right things in mind and good ideas protecting nature and developing an ethical mindset but it takes a long time to move the heavy beast ...