@masukuma, do you the darkest part of africa on that map the river Congo has the potential of generating more than 100,000 megawatts of power. Plans are underway by South Africa Eskom to develop 40,000 MW the world’s biggest hydropower complex bigger than china's three gorges hydropower complex.

Instead of kenya wasting money on a nuclear power plant wont it be much easier to chip in for such project. We truly need leaders who lead us to light

read more here http://www.bloomberg.com...hydropower-project.html[/quote]


Pheeew, I've managed to read through all the posts and made two observations.

One,we have some wazuans who've been to school,their posts are laced with big words and terminologies,but they just can't think.

Two,that pic shows the level of lighting at night as a way of showing energy consumption levels. Well lit places consume more power than the rest.
Why do we have to go green? We don't have to choke ourselves just to feel we've had our share or equal.
Pollution everywhere is bad,doing it ourselves doesn't make it any good.
As much as we can reduce on the greenhouse emissions, let's do it.
AS MUCH AS WE CAN!

I agree with you in principle however what the images show is that we are kidding ourselves to think that what we contribute will make an impact to the global 'total'. Even if all of Africa had 0 emissions and the rest don't change we are wasting our time. Its actually the rest who need to beg us to reduce our emissions (future) not vice-versa since they have been burning their coal for ages - we have not started burning ours. We also need to remember that people build their countries for themselves not for others - Americans think of how each decision they make is going to affect Americans first and others later. Perhaps we should start having discussions on how to get some light in Congo, CAR, Mali and other places first before thinking of whether our actions have adverse effects on the ecosystem of Tahiti.

indeed! I have worked in Afghanistan and when winter approaches those people burn plastics, tyres and animal dung to keep themselves warm.

@masukuma, I doubt whether we can talk about an 'us' versus 'them' approach in relation to global warming. This is because we enjoy and demand the benefits of culture and practices that lead to carbon emissions. And I do not think we are willing to drop this demand.

Again, by consuming the things we do, we make our contribution to global warming.

But I realize that a major reason for stalled action even from the developed states is that African nations are too small economically and politically, and too divided to have significant bargaining power.

African nations need a way to merge and increase their power, and need a culture shift that will boost research and development. In fact, we need to ask the developed countries to contribute more funds, personnel and infrastructure to turn our learning institutions into research centers as a means to meeting this environmental challenge.

We should also definitely try to cut down on emissions as pointed out by@mkeiyed.

What do you think?

I don't think I'd be better off knowing it was another person who was being referred to. We are all thinking and growing together.

I agree with your last paragraph.