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H ello there ladies and gentlemen, how are you ?   I hope life has been pleasant and kind to you. I trust and verily hope that you have been keeping well and have learnt a thing or two about life in these few months we have been on break.   I hope that for you aspiring way makers, change makers have learnt that it’s not all partying and wasting your life away. Have you observed that life is a canvas for you to paint your life story on? It is a teacher, a professor if you will, that teaches and instructs at her own pace and dishes, doles out her snippets as she sees fit. T herefore, we learn at our pace and each his lesson. Imbibe the wisdom R ight! Ladies and gentlemen you are now young adults. We all do remember how as children we all craved to have the freedom to make our own choices and live by them. As you well understand by now, freedom has to be hard fought; it never is given easily – even the freedom to decide how your life should be. T hat ...

Recently, scientists declared that we are now living in the anthropocene, that is, the geological epoch influenced by human activities. One of the most significant ways in which mankind has altered natural earth systems is the invention and use of technology. The other is climate change. Some facts, first of all. a)       Technology by itself, is a benign weapon, it can be used for good or bad. b)       Technology is also a way of life for 21 st century homo sapiens. c)       Technology and climate change are also interlinked. How so? Well think of fracking, construction of oil rigs both in on and off shore wells. These are some of the ways technology has led to climate change. So how can we, as the leading inhabitants of planet Earth use tech to help this planet of ours and save it from dangerous climate change? Let’s see… The IPCC, the UN organization tasked with gathering cli...