By: Ibrahim Jalloh - (Jallomy)✍️
The photos above depict the desperate and callous attitude of Sierra Leoneans on the permanent ruin of the environment.
I was shocked and shattered to see the above grotesque scenery: a typical agrarian village in rural Sierra Leone where the desperation to burn charcoal cannot restrain the locals from chopping permanent tree crops to burn charcoal. the fallen tree is a mango tree that suffered brutal human rape for a precarious and unsustainable livelihood.
What can anyone do to protect and preserve the wailing forests of Sierra Leone? Government has established institutions to do just that but such institutions, like the Environment Protection Agency, have relapsed to decorative status: a permanent feature of state decoration.
Logging and chaircoal burning are massive and done in the most savage of fashions. Rural Sierra Leoneans are chronically and desperately poor. Beyond physical poverty, they are also mentally and visionarily poor! Sadly, mental and visionary poverty are stampeding the rural poor to destroy the hope in the future.
We must be ready to welcome the desert that we have invited some ten years ago. I am hearing the roaring approach of the desert.
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