Youth must earn their place in renewable energy

Parliamentary Climate Change and Renewable Energy Caucus Chair Charity Kathambi (centre) and other leaders during a media brief at the Parliament buildings on December 8, 2022. [Elvis Ogina, Standard]

The sight of smoke emanating from a bush on a hill or forest in my motherland is likely to be charcoal burning.

We did this in our youth, when schools closed and there was need to complement our parents' income. We escalated forest degradation if not deforestation, killing some biodiversity and polluting, all at once. The cut trees would grow fast though.