We have a duty to care for the only home we have – and we must not shirk that duty.
As humanity starts realising that “Spaceship Earth” is not just our only option for a habitable space in the universe but also that we are choking it to death in multiple ways, we should also begin to take “crimes against the planet” as seriously as crimes against people.
The department of environmental affairs’ environmental management inspectorate, also known as the Green Scorpions, revealed this week that a syndicate is involved in illegally dumping containers of plastic waste from European countries in South Africa. Also being dumped here is oil-contaminated soil.
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