On Wednesday morning a middle age woman returned from the market, only to discover that part of the compound had been swallowed up in flames, the children and everyone was shouting, calling for support to extinguish the fire. The neighbors and thanks to the Fire and Rescue Service some valuables were completely removed from the danger zone, unable to stop the razing fire that was too fast to be tamed quickly.
Bigay Faye's condition is perhaps completely different from the stories we are hearing about the devastation in Japan. Last Friday's tsunami is one incident that will likely in the minds of those who witnessed it for a very long time, with deaths estimated to be more than three thousands, the number of displaced persons continue to rise.
What is even striking here is that the woman who lost most of her belongings to an inferno can be sure that her next-door friends will put up with her temporarily perhaps until such a time she fix her house. Whilst the situation in Japan has been further compounded by the health complications of the tsunami and its attendant problems, the Gambian woman and members of her household and the Japanese people know full well that the force of nature was too powerful and that whenever it wreck havoc, precious lives will be lost.
In a world accustomed to legal instruments and all the talk about Justice, Fairness and Accountability, one thing that humankind is yet to do is sue nature for sometimes pouncing on society and the environment for unknown reasons. This society has to blame someone for all the wrong problems, but it is a world that will not blame nature openly for so many earthquakes, mudslides and tsunamis that has perpetually wreck havoc on society and the environment.
Society and the environment, will you take the blame for climate change and rising sea levels?
Bigay Faye's condition is perhaps completely different from the stories we are hearing about the devastation in Japan. Last Friday's tsunami is one incident that will likely in the minds of those who witnessed it for a very long time, with deaths estimated to be more than three thousands, the number of displaced persons continue to rise.
What is even striking here is that the woman who lost most of her belongings to an inferno can be sure that her next-door friends will put up with her temporarily perhaps until such a time she fix her house. Whilst the situation in Japan has been further compounded by the health complications of the tsunami and its attendant problems, the Gambian woman and members of her household and the Japanese people know full well that the force of nature was too powerful and that whenever it wreck havoc, precious lives will be lost.
In a world accustomed to legal instruments and all the talk about Justice, Fairness and Accountability, one thing that humankind is yet to do is sue nature for sometimes pouncing on society and the environment for unknown reasons. This society has to blame someone for all the wrong problems, but it is a world that will not blame nature openly for so many earthquakes, mudslides and tsunamis that has perpetually wreck havoc on society and the environment.
Society and the environment, will you take the blame for climate change and rising sea levels?
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