What is the appropriate balance between our responsibilities towards future generations, and our obligations towards those suffering today? This is a dilemma on which the rich and the poor have different perspectives; the wealthy emphasize imminent environmental disasters leaving to Africans messages of gloom and doom. But have you ever thought of global warming as an opportunity? “Above all global warming is an excellent vehicle for the promotion of education, the key to the alleviation of poverty, by far the most urgent priority in Africa” Prof.George Philander , Princeton University and Director of African Center for Climate and Earth System Science, writes in this article.
