Fight Climate Change, Fashola Urges Students
Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State says the danger posed by the impact of climate change is real and challenged students in the state’s public schools to be in the vanguard of the fight against climate change.
Speaking at the 3rd anniversary of Climate Change Club in Lagos State Schools, Fashola said the degradation of the environment must be stopped and to do that, all available and possible avenues must be accessed and used.
“As children, you are crucial to change process if changes must be sustained. What we are doing here today is to try to restore a lost value. We have done it before. I remember that as children, we were taught the care for the environment. It was a competitive and healthy rivalry between classes, hostels and even schools.
“Regrettably, the beauty of our environment vanished as a result of neglect of urban planning in the process of city expansion and development that was uncontrollably struggling to meet the needs of a growing population,†he said.
The governor, who was represented by the Commissioner for the Environment, Dr. Muiz Banire said it would be dangerous for anyone to deny the reality of climate change, noting that “we do not know the next victim of the dramatic disasters ravaging the globe this time.â€
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