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What new human development data means for Kenya

The report is not opposed to equitable rapid growth in poor countries as long as it avoids the destruction of nature in net terms. [Elvis [Ogina, Standard]

A few days ago, Bill Gates warned that the looming climate change disaster will exceed Covid-19, and Africa will suffer disproportionately from it. Because it originated from a zoonotic pathogen, one that crossed from animals to humans, the Covid-19 tragedy has sparked renewed interest on how the damage we have wrought our natural heritage in the quest for economic growth has blown up in our faces.

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