REALITYCHECK

WASTE GENERATIONIn 1990, waste generated in Ghana was 2million metric tons

As at 2012, it rose to 5million metric tonsIn 2015, ? (Your guess is as good as mine)

FOREST RESERVEIn 1900, Ghana had 8.3million hectares of high forest

It now stands at 1.6million hectares

AIR POLLUTION

More than 13,400 lives are lost annually in Ghana including 3,000 children as a result of exposure to air pollution caused by human activities such as the use of wood fuel (World Health Organization).

Air Pollution is also causing about 70 percent reduction in forest cover across the country

UNESCO BIOSPHERE RESEVES

BIOSPHERE is the global sum of all ecosystems. It can also be termed the zone of life on earth, a closed system and largely self regulating.Ghana can boast of the following UNESCO Biosphere reserves; Bia Biosphere Reserve (located in the Western region) 1982Songor Biosphere Reserve (located in the Dangbe West District) 2013 Lake Bosomtwi (located in the Ashanti region) awaiting approval

CHANGE NOW !!!We at CATE GHANA are fighting for our future. Loosing our future is not like loosing an election or loosing points on the stock market. We speak for all generations to come and also speak for animals on planet earth who have no where to go.

We are afraid to go to the sun now because of holes in the Ozone, we are afraid to sit outside for fresh air because it is polluted. We used to go fishing in streams around us but we can not do that now.

In our life we have dreamt of seeing great forest of wild animals, jungles and rain forest full of birds and butterflies but I wonder if they will really exist for our children to see.

Did our parents have to worry of these things when they were young? All these things are happening before our

eyes and then we act as if we have all the TIME we want and all the SOLUTIONS. We at CATE GHANA do not have all the solutions but we want you to realise neither do YOU.

No one knows how to fix the ozone layer, no one can bring back an animal now extinct and no one can bring back the

forest that ones grew but now a desert.

If you don’t know how to fix it......PLEASE

STOP breaking IT