{"id":5490,"date":"2019-09-20T10:04:22","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T07:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=5490"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:33","slug":"let-everyone-raise-their-voice-against-coal-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/09\/20\/let-everyone-raise-their-voice-against-coal-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Let Everyone Raise Their Voice Against Coal Power"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>By Amos Wemanya<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kenya\nhas been experiencing extreme weather events like floods and droughts over the\npast couple of years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is\nno mystery why this has been happening. The burning of fossil fuels such as\ncoal has intensified climate change and the resultant extreme weather events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ironically, as the world is struggling to limit greenhouse emissions to halt the catastrophic climate crisis, the Kenyan government is actively pursuing the development of the coal-powered plant in Lamu and establishment of the coal mining industry in Kitui.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fossil\nfuels such as coal when burned produce carbon dioxide, a heat-trapping gas.\nWhen released into the atmosphere, carbon dioxide works like a blanket, warming\nthe earth above normal limits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Unfortunately, if the fossil fuel industry, public policy, and decision-makers are not forced to make significant changes, we are on course to increase global average temperatures by up to four-degree Celsius by the end of the century\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessdailyafrica.com\/analysis\/letters\/Let-everyone-raise-voice-against-coal-power\/4307714-5279816-7x1ic5z\/index.html\">Read more>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Amos Wemanya Kenya has been experiencing extreme weather events like floods and droughts over the past couple of years. It is no mystery why this has been happening. The&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}