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IMMINENCE OF ECOLOGICAL APOCALYPSE Featured

Written by JOHN ODEY ADUMA, SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
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With grave consequences

Wreaking havoc of unimaginable proportions.

The wild is in a fit of convulsion

And the rainforests are vanishing fast with frightening rapidity

Pushing species of wild flora and fauna to the brink of extinction.

In confusion, some are running round the globe aimlessly

As our earth in permanent chaos is about to burst into flames.

 The arid is dry, thirsty and weary

With desertification provoking dust bowl

And forming mountainous sand dunes

Which bury communities, livestock and farmlands

Sparking off unprecedented drought,

Leading to famines, diseases and wars around the world.

 

The rivers are drying up,

But the seas and oceans overfed

By the waters from the melting ice cap in the Arctic

Are submerging low-lying communities.

There is wailing in New Orleans, North Eastern Australia, Mauritius;

Wailing in Florida, Indonesia, Bangladesh, India, Serbia, the Maldives;

Wailing in Romania, Bulgaria, Haiti, Nicaragua, the Honduras, etcetera

As cyclones Larry, Katrina, Mitch, Ivan, Tsunami and tropical storm Jeanne

All in a fury came bursting forth and washing into the ocean

Every community, town and city on their way.

 

Crisis here! Crisis there! Crisis all around the world, and no way out;

The polar ice caps are melting at an alarming rate,

The polar bears are dying in the high Arctic of Canada,

And livestock are dying in the dry and thirsty lands of Northern Nigeria and Ethiopia.

But all the world is sleeping and snoring,

And arguing about the actual causes of climate change

With politicians and business leaders teaming up

In conspiratorial silence to downplay its severity

Whilst some scientists disputed the scientific causes,

Others have propounded anthropogenic etcetera

To refute the scientific theories.

But can Gaia or renewables save

the world from these catastrophes?

 

 August 1, 2006

 

POSTED ON VIGILANCE - THE WORLD'S LEADING SECURITY MAGAZINE ON 

 IMMINENCE OF ECOLOGICAL APOCALYPSE (vigilance-securitymagazine.com)

August 1, 2006

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

John Odey Aduma was formerly Executive Secretary, Foundry Association of Nigeria; Southern Coordinator and the Public Affairs Manager of President Muhammadu Buhari's pastoralists NGO - THE PASTORAL RESOLVE; Chairman, Editorial Board of the Daily Times of Nigeria Plc; member, National Committee for the Nigerian Youth Festival, 1993; Core Committee, the Nigerian Conservation Foundation (NCF)/Ford Foundation, Kano Eastern Bypass Roadside Tree Planting Exercise, 1997; member, core Committee of the National Technology Summit and was the Summit's chairman for two of its sub-committees - Publicity and Exhibition, 1998; member of the Administrative Panel of Inquiry set up by President Olusegun Obasanjo to investigate the illegal trade in and smuggling of endangered species of wild fauna and flora into and out of Nigeria, 2003.

He was the Chairman, Planning Committee of the General Murtala Muhammed Memorial Lecture for two consecutive years, 2001 and 2002 before it attained a Foundation status in 2002, having first been upgraded to that status in 2001.

General Murtala Muhammed was one of Nigeria's former Heads of State and was killed in the abortive coup led by the then Colonel Buka Suka Dimka on February 13, 1976.

That same capacity saw Mr Aduma delivering huge successes during the Daily Times of Nigeria's 75th Anniversary (in which he raked in N6, 000, 000 into the coffers of the Daily Times of Nigeria Plc) and also, playing a similar role in a similar capacity during Dr Isma'il Babatunde Jose's 75th Birth Day. Dr Jose, doyen of Nigerian journalism was Mr Aduma's personal mentor. That relationship was so close and solid such that whilst Aduma was leaving the shores of Nigeria for Britain in 2003, Dr Jose gave him N10, 000.00.

In 1992, Mr Aduma's contributions to journalism was recognised with the awards of the Nigeria Media Merit Award as the Investigative Reporter of the Year and the Diamond Awards for Media Excellence as the Reporter of the Year, and the British Chevening Scholarship, which saw him studying International Journalism with Specialism in Environment at City, University of London in 2003-2004.

Aduma is the author of the inspirational best-seller, THE DIAMONDS ARE HERE and the founder of Vigilance, the World's Leading Security Magazine and Scorpion News Corp, in addition to founding the Nationalists Unity Movement of Nigeria (NUMON).

He is also, involved in professional mentoring at Post Graduate level in the City, University of London’s Post Graduate Professional Mentoring Strand.

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