A survey in the United Kingdom showed that 60 per cent of the bread tested contained pesticide residue. Although pesticides are sprayed on land, many times, they can make their way into a water source, such as a river, ocean, or pond.
Samoa, like many Small Island Developing States, does not produce the level of carbon emissions that developed countries do but our bad habits are still contributing to climate change.
Do you use pesticides? Do you burn rubbish? Do you pour old oil onto the ground? Do you throw your plastic rubbish onto the street or into the long grass?
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What we put in the land can eventually end up in our waterways and into our Pacific Ocean.
This is the same ocean that we are reliant for our fish – our food and our livelihoods.
This is the same ocean that we are trying to protect and safeguard for future generations – of our people and of our marine life.
Pesticides are designed to kill pests but they also can pose risks to people and the environment.
Pesticides have now started showing up in the food we eat.
A survey in the United Kingdom showed that 60 per cent of the bread tested contained pesticide residue. Although pesticides are sprayed on land, many times, they can make their way into a water source, such as a river, ocean, or pond.
Burning our grass cutting and fallen leaves, any green waste, is also adding to harmful greenhouse gases and wasting organic matter that could be returned to the land as mulch or compost.
In Samoa, the habit of burning plastics, paper and sadly, even tyres, is also contributing to toxic air pollution that our planet can no longer process.
Instead the carbon emissions from this goes into the air and into our oceans, increasing ocean acidity that is killing off marine life and warming the seas.
Samoa is an amazing country with a dynamic population that can move with unity and grace as we are witnessing with the preparations for the Third International Conference on Small Island Developing States.
It can surely do act with the same unity and grace to clean up our land and our ocean.
Galulue fa’atasi e mama ai se avega/By everyone working together, the load will be lighter.
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