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"content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to support this very important Motion. Hon. Members, I want to begin by telling you a very simple story which you may understand, if you looked at me. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, you could allow me to hold this bottle here and define this as the amount of food that certain unicellular plants and animals can feed on for 100 days; 100 days is all that is contained in this particular container. At the tenth minute, one little creature - unicellular--- They have one cell--- Unicellular plants or animals will multiply once every day. They would double. One little one tells the boss: \"Boss! Listen. We have a population problem here. This is the tenth day and we have consumed 10 per cent of the food.\" Then he is told: \"Listen young man. Forget about all that you are talking about. We have just been here for ten days and have consumed 10 per cent. We do not have a population problem\". On 11th minute, they come back again and say: \"Boss, we said we have a big problem with food.\" He says: \"What is wrong with you. It is only the 11th minute.\" The little plant turns to the boss and says: \"But we have consumed 20 per cent of the food. This is 12th minute. You said we have enough food for 100 minutes.\" You know very well that by the 13th minute, they will have already consumed 80 per cent of the food available, and they do not have 100 minutes. That is where we are. I would like to explain that once again, when we have time. But looking at the time, I will be forced to be here again on Wednesday to go further. But I want to highlight the fact that, we in Parliament, should not turn a blind eye to the various conventions, conferences, agreements and treaties from 1920 that have taken place in regard to this matter of the environment. The first one was in 1920. Looking through all of them, they have one thing in common. They want to save this planet. For those who may be opposing, let them know that the Sahara desert was all grass. If you still doubt that one, look at the oil fields. Oil is developed from organic matter. All those oil fields were, one time, vegetation and plants. We ignored warnings as early as 1920, when we held conferences. We have had a whooping 274 conferences, resolutions and treaties to do with the environment. I would deal with a summary of that, but I am encouraging Members to scan through most of those conventions. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I see that my time is up. But this is just the beginning. But when we come back on Wednesday, I will tell you the implications that those conventions November 5, 2008 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 3301 have. Most of them which we signed as late as 1988 demand that we must have laws in place to control CFCs - those are the gases that were mentioned by hon. Bett. I thank him most sincerely for bringing this Motion. I want to challenge the Ministry of Environment and Mineral Resources that, ideally, it should have done that decades ago and brought that law. There are issues which we have signed and assented to. They are all held in those conventions and need to be enacted through an act of Parliament. That is why I am supporting this most important Motion to try and introduce a Bill in this House that will add muscle to this good Ministry that is in charge of our environment, so that it can be able to implement the quantity of CFCs, hydro-carbon, glomochlorides and so forth. Those quantities cannot be enacted without an effective law. I am looking forward to the hon. Minister for Environment and Mineral Resources to stand up and own the Motion."
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