A Call to Fight Air Pollution on World Environment Day (5 June 2019)
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Editor’s Note: This message was originally published by Refugee Law Project on 5 June 2019 at 17:41hrs.
Today we join the rest of the world in commemorating the World Environment Day under the theme ‘Air Pollution’. Here in Uganda, the day is being commemorated in Moroto in the North Eastern part of the country.
As we commemorate the day, we are delighted to share with you our statement in commemoration of the day titled A Call to Fight Air Pollution: RLP’s Statement on World Environment Day. In the statement we call for behavioral change on how we interact with our environment.
Environmental pollution affects our health, our access to clean air and water, and a healthy ecosystem. Our environment is a determinant of our health.
While our day-to-day lives may not feel threatened right now, air pollution has a compounding affect that will only grow worse without intervention. Each one of us ought to take actions that reduce on pollution.
One of the things we have done as RLP to improve the environment within refugee hosting districts of Kiryandongo, Lamwo and Adjumani is to encourage the hosts as well as the refugees to plant trees as a great tool for cleaning up polluted environments.
Thank you.
True thanks for the work well done! Babies who are born around Kampala are having trouble consuming the dirty air in circulation which troubles their lungs – a concerned doctor hosted on one of the televisions said!
True Cathy, and thank you for visiting and leaving a message on this site. We MUST and CAN do better and it begins with me and you, and above all, with this kind of dialogues. It takes not only concern but outrage to reach out to those concerned to act accordingly and to hold others to account. We must leave this planet a much better place than we found it!
Thank you for visiting once again and looking forward to visible trace of ‘Climate Change Action’.
Guys thanks for that ! True, poor air quality kills people. Worldwide, bad outdoor air caused an estimated 4.2 million premature deaths in 2018, about 90 percent of them in low- and middle-income countries, according to the World Health Organisation. Indoor smoke is an ongoing health threat to the 3 billion people who cook and heat their homes by burning biomass, kerosene, and coal. Air pollution has been linked to higher rates of cancer, heart disease, stroke, and respiratory diseases such as asthma. In the Africa nearly 134 million people—over 40 percent of the population—are at risk of disease and premature death because of air pollution, according to American Lung Association estimates.
Thank you Fred for the message. We MUST do more to protect ourselves and save future generations. Hope we touch base in practically channelling our concerns into constructive actions.
Thank you.
Onen David