The destruction of our environment is self-inflicted – Frimpong-Boateng

General News of Sunday, July 21st, 2019

Source: ghananewsagency.org

2019-07-21

Professor Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng, Minister of the Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation, said that the continued destruction of the environment is self-inflicted and that it's not safe to use. it must be stopped.

"When we destroy the environment, we destroy ourselves. We depend on nature for our critical needs, including medicines, food, air and water, and we show signs of ingratitude by destroying nature through activities such as deforestation, mining, air pollution and inadequate waste management, "he said.

The Minister stated that the sacred duty of all is to take measures to protect and preserve the environment by growing trees, using water wisely and by eliminating waste, especially plastics, from appropriate way.

Speaking at the opening of the Ninth Supreme Convention of Subordinates of the Knights of St. John and the Ladies Auxiliary (KSJI), Professor Frimpong-Boateng said that nature is the only He did not need humans but that man needed nature to survive.

The three-day convention, whose theme is "Our environment, our heritage: the role of civil society (KSJI) in its preservation," aims to take stock of KSJI's activities and plan its future.

Teacher. Frimpong-Boateng explained that "because of his love of money, some people resort to harmful practices such as preserving salted fish with formalin, a chemical used to preserve corpses and animals." Use of pesticides in the palm wine industry to pollute the environment and harm people's health. people.

As part of the government's measures to preserve the environment, the minister said he was implementing climate change programs to promote renewable energies, afforestation and energy efficiency. use of clean kitchen stoves.

According to Professor Frimpong-Boateng, $ 20 million has been invested in projects in Savannah to provide farmers with access to water during the dry season, input supply and the promotion of sustainable land technologies .

Bishop John Bonaventure Kwofie, Metropolitan Archbishop of Accra, said that human beings had misconstrued Genesis 1:28, which stated: "… be fruitful and increase in number, fill the earth and subdue it …"

Instead of dealing with such heritage, he added, people are instead exploiting the resources of nature without replacing or conserving themselves.

"Our well-being depends on nature. We must be responsible, otherwise we will perish if the destruction continues, "he said.

Reverend Kwofie said that environmental issues were paramount for the Catholic Church, hence the recent appeal by Pope Francis' encyclical Laudato Si to end the destruction man was the environment.

"While addressing the environment directly, the document has a broader scope in many ways because it addresses not only the effects of man on the environment, but also the many philosophical, theological causes. and cultural that threaten the relationship between man and nature and between man and nature, other in various circumstances.

Major General James Dasah, chairman of the KSJI, commander of the high subordinate, said the group was ready to partner with institutions for environmental protection and urged the government to deal with individuals who flout environmental laws.

While commending the security agencies for taking steps to end the frequency of kidnappings, he called on security services to continue to protect churches as a result of attacks in the subregion .

KSJ is an international organization of Catholic fraternal services.

Incorporated in 1886, members of the organization committed themselves to serve the Catholic Church, their communities and fraternal fraternity, with individual units or commanderies established in a parish.