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"content": "Management Act and The Public Health Management Act. All these Acts talk about the same thing as it has been ably pointed out by the Senate Leader of Minority in his presentation. If we interfere with the environment, we interfere with vary many factors which affect our life in terms of health. We are now having climate change which we have to be very open to and take action to save our environment. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the ozone layer is depleting at a very fast rate. However, in Kenya, we have not even come up with laws to limit the carbon monoxide emission from vehicles. When you move through the streets and highways, you meet vehicles remitting so much smoke to the detriment of not only our health and environment, but also the rain patterns. The El nino and La Nina patterns are due to environmental mismanagement. If you are a believer in evolution, the Darwin’s law, the Lamarck’s theory and the Mendelian laws were very much hinged on environmental factors. Indeed, the human existence is very highly dependent on how the environment is managed. Mention has been made of the forest cover in this country. We are losing forests and the Sahara Desert is moving into Kenya at a rate of about 45 kilometres per year. How long will it take for the Sahara Desert to cover the whole country? Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, there was the introduction of the Mathenge tree in the North Eastern region which raised a lot of hue and cry. That was a noble action. The"
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