The world over – the question of balance between equitable and sustainable resource exploitation has become central. The emergence in our time of matters such as greenhouse carbon emissions and competing theories on global warming, its causes, effects and extent and, more importantly, methods put forward for arresting the said pace of global warming have become key topics of global policy and a need for global solutions.
In this regard we have seen global incoherence on the way forward. The United States, in particular, has at one point alongside other global powers such as Germany, Britain, France and Canada proposed stringent policy proposals to arrest global warming.
However, in the age of President Trump, the US has been putting a massive handbrake to so-called environmental initiatives and this has frustrated her allies.
President Trump favours maximum resource exploitation to gain advantage for current employment, etc. There is also a massive question of politics and security manipulation in this field and here lies a great concern.
In Zimbabwe we continue to see an influx of so-called non-governmental organisations seemingly lecturing our body politic on policies for which even superpowers are taking a pause in order to sustain growth equity and ensure their singular economic and national security.
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