By Esther Mendai, Zambia
It is amazing how much nature can really pay back all what is rendered to it.
Yesterday I visited one of the oldest cities in “Sønderjylland” – Aabenraa. In this city roads are made from nicely plastered stones, and the houses are well built too.
But even though the city is well built, it is beginning to be affected of the global crisis - known as climate change. Aabenraa habour has in the current years been recorded for an increase of overflow of water in periods when the area has been faced with heavy rainfalls or raising water pressure from the sea.
In the old maps of Denmark, the area where Aabenraa is now, was covered by water, but people decided to push the waters back by building the city. After some time the water tried to get back to its original place, which created an overflow. By doing so the water created a problem – which we invited to ourselves.
It is what we do with our environment that later comes back at us in form of a problem; Nature pays you back what you give it, or “feed it”, and it is the same way with the CO2-emission. All Danes should remember that fact - especially because Denmark is a country that has not faced the effects of the climate changes as much as poor countries like Zambia, where I am from.
On the picture I am treating a cat nicely so that nature in return treats me nicely.