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    "id": 475093,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/475093/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) Ottichilo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 131,
        "legal_name": "Wilber Ottichilo Khasilwa",
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    "content": "country. Drought has now become a common phenomenon in this country. Every year people in ASAL areas are actually on food aid. Without food aid, they cannot survive. This is as result of climate change. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the biggest threat of climate change is sea rise. We have a coastal line of 7000 kilometres of Indian Ocean. The statistics and data available today – we can get it from Kenya Meteorological Department – shows that the sea level is raising and you can ask the people at the coast and they will tell you. Already in highlands in southern Tanzania, south of Mafia Island, a number of islands have sunk and have been covered by water. Therefore, there is a threat that, with the increase in temperatures, the sea level is rising. Why is it rising? The ice in the Arctic and that in the Antarctic are melting and the water in the ocean is expanding because of heat. For that reason, the sea level is rising. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, therefore, if we do not do anything I can tell you, in the next 50 to 100 years, Mombasa and other towns in our coastline will be no more. Even our LAPSSET programme or Lamu may not survive. Therefore, it is extremely important that climate change must be taken extremely serious."
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