10-year-old Nigerian proposes introduction of climate change study in schools

By Nneka Nwogwugwu

A 10-year-old Nigerian climate activist, Miss Aderinsola Adegboye, of Royal Palm International College, Ilorin, has called for the introduction of Climates Change study in the nation’s school curriculum.

Adegboye, who is the Founder “Return the Green Club initiative in Nigeria”, made the appeal in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday in Ilorin.

She underscored the need to teach the future generation about their environment and actions that were capable of destroying it as well as threatening the existence of humans and animals.

According to her, with the introduction of the study, children will inculcate the knowledge and the need, to care for the environment.

“If the environment gets continuously destroyed, then we will all die too, because it is what is sustaining humans, animal and plants,” she warned.

Adegboye described climate change as the periodic modification of earth’s climate, brought about as a result of changes in the atmosphere, as well as interactions between atmosphere and various other geologic, chemical, biological and geographic factors.
She noted that climate change involved not only rising temperature, but also extreme whether events, rising sea levels, shifting wildlife populations and habitat.

She therefore appealed to people to plant trees especially drought resistant ones, while advising government to implement policies to protect environment and need to empower the female gender.

Dr Oluwayemisi Adegboye, mother of the climate activist, explained that some of the novel diseases were as a result of the encroachment of humans in wild life habitat.