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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Amos Maina (",
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    "content": "What are we, as a country, doing to try and address that issue? Most of the developed countries and others manage their waste. I can quote Kigali in Rwanda which has a very good policy on dumping. You cannot go around dumping anything in Kigali. That policy was implemented at the outset. The mindsets of their children and citizenry understand the effects of climate change. They use the philosophy of carrot and stick. If you are caught dumping, there is a hefty fine. As a country, it is time we woke up and addressed this issue once and for all because it will be bigger than any other things in the near future. We have a good policy on tree planting which we support. We are also in a very advanced century where people adopt modern technologies to deal with some issues. I find it difficult that even in the United States of America (USA), where they have huge tonnes of waste, they have adopted the technology of incineration when it comes to burning of that waste. Incinerators emit less carbon to the air than when you burn the waste. I urge the relevant authorities to try and adopt new technologies. If it is the issue of carbon credit farming, we can sensitise the people. In the middle of every confusion, there is always an opportunity. In the middle of every calamity, there is always an opportunity. We have very well-educated young men who are jobless. If they can be educated more about carbon credit farming, we can put our human resource to better use. We have very many educated people who are adopting modern ways of doing agriculture. This is a very big opportunity where they will be educated and they will become great players in climate change. There is also an issue that we have in our schools. We used to have the scouts’ movement which was very effective in the earlier years. The activities have dwindled in my constituency. Those are people whom we can employ to be volunteers in the slums, villages and everywhere to preach this message and take it deeper into the society, so that we can have a society that is very conscious of the environment it lives in. We will achieve this only through the mindset change of our people. For example, we are about 50 million people in this country. However, you can take it to the bank that the polluters are about 49 million. Maybe, only half a million are the ones who are concerned about the environment."
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