CLIMATE CHANGE: WHAT ARE WE TALKING ABOUT?
By SinmilOluwa Okunade “What’s the use of a fine house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?” —Henry David Thoreau The year is 2021, you have just come out of hiding and now have access to the internet. Amongst the many things the netizens are raving about, climate change seems to be a regular. You see ads mention eco-friendly , and save the planet campaigns are a thing. The colour green is being used to describe gases and energy, things that did not have colours before you went into hiding. Well, Welcome back! Let us start with the international headliner: Climate Change . This phenomenon that nearly everyone seems to be (rightly) agitating about is a long-term change in the average weather patterns that have come to define the Earth's local, regional, and global climates. Simply put, it is a change in the normal weather patterns of a place over a long period. Let’s say your hometown is Wasinmi, in Ogun State Nigeria, and the harmattan season usually starts...