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Global climate change: An existential threat to the Environment & Mankind by Prof Okeke Gerald Ndubuisi

<p><strong>Prof Okeke Gerald Ndubuisi has been nominated by International Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education &rpar;QAHE&rpar; &comma; in USA&comma; UK&comma; Canada&comma; Australia&comma; Switzerland&comma;etc&comma; as a Professor of Climate change &amp&semi; Environmental Sustainability&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>He equally holds a doctorate degree on Environmental Studies from TBU Global Extension University&comma; New York&comma; USA&comma; and was awarded Honorary doctorate degree in Peace &amp&semi; Christian Theology by United Nations Polac as an International Peace Ambassador&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><b>In this interview with <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;Openlife&period;ng">Openlife Nigeria<&sol;a>&comma; the foremost and award winning Nigerian professor of Safety and Environment&comma; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;Openlife&period;ng">Okeke Gerald Ndubuisi<&sol;a> will be telling us about Global Climate Change and its Existential Threat To Environment&period;<&sol;b><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><b><i>Que&colon; Can We Meet You&quest;<&sol;i><&sol;b><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Ans<&sol;strong>&colon; My name is Professor Okeke Gerald Ndubuisi&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;17014" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-17014" style&equals;"width&colon; 250px" class&equals;"wp-caption alignnone"><img class&equals;"size-medium wp-image-17014" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;09&sol;IMG-20220922-WA0012-250x300&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"250" height&equals;"300" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-17014" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Professor Okeke Gerald Ndubuisi<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>I am a native of Umulogho in Obowo Local Government Area of Imo state&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>I am a Professor of Safety &amp&semi; Environment&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>I have been working in the oil &amp&semi; gas industry for the past 34 years and still counting&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>I am a Safety &amp&semi; Environmental Sustainability specialist by the special grace of GOD&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;17012" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-17012" style&equals;"width&colon; 300px" class&equals;"wp-caption alignnone"><img class&equals;"size-medium wp-image-17012" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;09&sol;IMG-20220922-WA0014-300x271&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"300" height&equals;"271" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-17012" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Professor Okeke Gerald Ndubuisi<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>I am equally a Lecturer in some tertiary Institutions here in Nigeria and abroad&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>I lecture at Triune Biblical University&comma; Global Extension&comma; USA&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>I am equally a guest Lecturer to some higher Institutions in Nigeria&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;17015" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-17015" style&equals;"width&colon; 225px" class&equals;"wp-caption alignnone"><img class&equals;"size-medium wp-image-17015" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;09&sol;IMG-20220922-WA0013-225x300&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"225" height&equals;"300" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-17015" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Professor Okeke Gerald Ndubuisi<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p><strong><em>Que&colon; What are the causes of global climate change&quest;<&sol;em><&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Ans&colon;<&sol;strong> Climate change is mainly caused by the production of carbon emissions&comma; especially anthropogenic activities of mankind on planet earth&comma; such as burning of fossil fuels like Coal&comma; wood&comma; hydrocarbons &lpar; crude oil &amp&semi; gas&rpar;&comma; etc&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Sequel to the quantum of these dangerous gases&comma; the create serious damage to planet earth and the effects of global warming which we are feeling now becomes apparent and real&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Some of the effects of global warming or climate change could be summed up as follows&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>• Change of pattern of rain falls&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;• Disruption of forests &amp&semi; agricultural yields&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;• Expansion of desserts or desertification process&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;• Serious intense rainstorms and acid rain&comma;etc&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>Que&colon; How do we get out of this global climate change&quest;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Ans<&sol;strong>&colon; We should discourage deforestation and encourage afforestation&period; That we should desist from hewing down the trees and mangroves&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Secondly&comma; we resort to green energy or alternative energy sources such as&comma; Biomass energy&comma; Hydropower&comma; Solar energy&comma; Wind energy&comma;etc&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Multinational oil companies should desist from flaring gases at their respective flowstations&comma; and channel those gases for both industrial and domestic use&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>Que&colon; What are the implications of not reducing carbon emissions around our environment&quest;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Ans<&sol;strong>&colon; The implications of not reducing the production of carbon emissions are legion&period; More production of carbon emissions and other dangerous gases leads to rise in temperature&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Just like what is happening now in Europe&period; The ambient temperature around Europe now is tilting towards 40 degrees Celsius&period; People now spend more time in their swimming pools or beaches because of the harsh weather occasioned by the global climate change&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>With the advent of high temperature&comma; skin dermatitis&comma; eye cataract and impaired vision are on the increase sequel to the release of ultra violet rays from the higher stratosphere&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Secondly&comma; flooding would be on the increase with it&&num;8217&semi;s attendant losses in both human lives and negative economic impacts on our Environment&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>So everything humanly possible should be done to pull the planet earth from this Environmental quagmire which we have been inadvertently plunged into sequel to our activities on planet earth&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>Que&colon; What is the Ozone Layer and what benefits do we derive from it&quest;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Ans&colon;<&sol;strong> Ozone layer is a form of oxygen containing three atoms instead of the usual two&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It is formed and destroyed by complicated series of chemical reactions between atmospheric oxygen&comma; sunlight and other substances in the higher stratosphere&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The ozone layer acts like a giant sun shade for planet earth&period; The ozone layer intercepts ultra violet rays made up of radiation from the higher stratosphere&period; The ozone layer intercepts these UV rays and simmers it down&comma; before releasing same to us on planet earth&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>But because of the production of chlorofluorocarbons and other allied gases&comma; the ozone layer is always undergoing depletion when these dangerous gases are released into the atmosphere&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Apertures are created in this process and some UV rays would escape and hit us badly here on planet&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The UV rays that escaped would go to the polar icy regions and start to melt the mountainous ice bergs&comma; which would find its way into the oceans and rivers&comma; thereby causing excessive flooding when it rains&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;So you can see with me that without the ozone layer&comma; mankind cannot exist on planet&period; This is a very huge benefit we derive from the ozone layer&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>Que&colon; Should we encourage planting of trees in our environment&quest;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Ans<&sol;strong>&colon; Planting of trees is very very important to our Environment&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>There is a symbiotic relationship between man and trees&comma; which apparently has been betrayed by man &comma; by incessant decimation of the trees and mangroves around our Environment&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The trees need our carbon dioxide to make their own food via the xylem and phloem vessels and aid of sunlight&comma; which is called photosynthesis&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Invariably&comma; the trees gives off oxygen to man to survive on planet earth&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>With this betrayal of the alliance by man&comma; we are now paying dearly for the prize of our inexperience&period; Suffice it to say that we are the harbingers of our own affliction&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>We should go back to nature and settle with nature by desisting from cutting down trees or plants around us with reckless abandon&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Go to the book of Deuteronomy&comma; chapter 20 verse 19&comma; GOD admonished the Israelites not to put an ax on the trees as the trees are source of Man&&num;8217&semi;s existence and survival&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>Que&colon; What is the importance of trees in our environment&quest;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Ans<&sol;strong>&colon; The importance of trees around our Environment cannot be over emphasized&period; If you cut one tree&comma; try to plant at least two or three trees&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Check the book of Genesis&comma; the Garden of Eden was described in the scripture as &&num;8221&semi; green vegetation &&num;8220&semi;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>If the owner of the universe &lpar; GOD&rpar;&comma; could attach much importance to trees&comma; why then&comma; we His creation are messing up the Environment&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>Que&colon; Away from Safety and Environment now&comma; who are you voting for in the forthcoming presidential election&quest;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Ans&colon; <&sol;strong>I don&&num;8217&semi;t usually vote during general elections in Nigeria&comma; because I feel that our votes don&&num;8217&semi;t count&period; This time around&comma; I am going to vote for us to have a new Nigeria&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>We need a paradigm shift from recycling old brigade politicians&comma; to a movement for a New Nigeria&period; I must confess that I am OBIdient because I want to be Yusful to myself&comma; family and community&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>Que&colon; Is Professor Okeke Gerald Ndubuisi a family man&quest;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Ans&colon;<&sol;strong> I am a typical family man&period; I am married to Ambassador &lpar; Dr&rpar; Mrs Ngozi Gift Okeke for the past 30 years and we are blessed with four lovely children&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;17013" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-17013" style&equals;"width&colon; 225px" class&equals;"wp-caption alignnone"><img class&equals;"size-medium wp-image-17013" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;09&sol;IMG-20220922-WA0015-225x300&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"225" height&equals;"300" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-17013" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Professor Okeke Gerald Ndubuisi and his wife&comma; Dr&period; Mrs Vera Ngozi Gift Okeke<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;

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