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    "id": 179804,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Ruteere",
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        "legal_name": "Silas Muriuki Ruteere",
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    "content": "Thank you Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I stand here to support the Motion. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, today, we are all aware of the frequent landslides that have occurred all over the country. The frequency of landslides has become so much. This was not the case before. When you go to the root causes of these landslides, we find that it is because we have destroyed our natural resources. We have cleared the ground cover. We have destroyed trees with big roots which hold up soil together. Therefore, when it rains, the water finds its way to the streams and then form big rivers. So, the soil is swept without anything preventing it. This is as a result of our human destruction of the environment. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, climate change is affecting everybody in the world. However, it is even worse in Kenya. It affects us negatively. Mt. Kenya used to have a very big line of white snow. Today, when you look at the mountain on a clear day without clouds, you will see patches of snow. Once the snow melts, it turns into streams and rivers which we use downstream. This is why we say rivers are drying up. There is very little snow on top of Mt. Kenya. As it has been said, in the past, farmers could predict when rain would fall. They would also know when to plant by looking at the stars, cloud formation and migration of birds. These birds have been affected by climate change and they no longer migrate as they used to. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, unless we take urgent measures, the kind of destruction that human beings are making on the environment will translate into the human beings themselves being destroyed."
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