Government Must STOP Encouraging Deforestation

As Malawi continues to struggle with deforestation and wanton cutting down of trees, the Government is the worst culprit in terms of encouraging the cutting down of trees and deforestation and this must stop. Malawi cannot go green if the hierarchy of the Government continues to condone cutting down of trees. This is hypocrisy at its best from the government when they continue to say people should stop using and buying charcoal yet itself continue to encourage the use and cutting down of the trees.

Unless the Malawi Government changes its policy as regards to use of burnt bricks in all the construction development, then they are culprits who are encouraging the cutting down of trees. To burn 100,000 bricks, 4 big trees have to be cut down. Imagine how many bricks would be used to build a school? Imagine a full school would use 1,000,000 bricks then we would assume that 40 trees were cut down just to help the same government. I will not even raise the scientific issues as regards to carbon emissions as a result of the process of burning these bricks.

Therefore the go green campaign and forcing charcoal sellers to stop making charcoal is hypocrisy on the part of government if it can’t adopt a policy to stop using burnt bricks. This should be done and must be done now. If we are to serve the environment in Malawi, cement bricks is the only option and therefore should be made affordable.

STOP BURNT BRICKS NOW!!