Tag: Ibraheem Dooba

Why we are planting 200 million trees – the rationale By Ibraheem Dooba

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The urgent and present danger The world is getting warmer. And when we lose 40% of our forests, the world would’ve reached a point of no-return where we would experience daily natural disasters such as heatwaves, floods and droughts.   We’re already getting there. Already, we lose 10 billion trees every year.   Accordingly, IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) reports that 97% of climate scientists agree that this unfavourable outcome is due to human activities such as carbon emissions.   Africa Will Die First …   But Africa contributes…

When Will The World End? By Ibraheem Dooba

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When we were children, religious scholars told us that the end of the world was near. Any strange thing they saw, they attributed to the imminent termination of the world.   They repeated this so often that I became convinced that I was among the last humans. We would hear the sound, I thought, and I would tell my family and neighbours “we’re being called. Say your last prayers.”   Sadly, it appears that I wouldn’t be among the last fellows.   Look at it this way, we’ve been told…

How to raise money for your degree by planting trees – Ibraheem Dooba, Ph.D.

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On Wednesday in Minna, during the Edufest of FOMWAN School, I was asked to talk to students about the benefits of tree planting. So I told the students three reasons why they should plant trees: 1. To protect the environment, each student should plant a tree for every birthday. So if you’re nine years old, you should plant nine trees as oxygen factories and for carbon sequestration. I got this idea from Dr. Abdul Hussain, PermSec Lands. 2. University fund – if a child in primary 3 plants a tree…