Time to look at link between climate change and population growth

A flooded area in near river Perkerra in Baringo County. Experts say environmental degradation creates vulnerability to climate change and this degradation comes because of population growth. [Kipsang Joseph, Standard]

Experts need to start focusing on the link between population growth and climate change, an ongoing forum has heard. Stakeholders at the ongoing regional workshop on health and climate change in Lilongwe, Malawi have been urged to seriously look beyond the infectious, communicable diseases and begin to see the bigger symbiotic relationship between population growth and climate change.
According to Prof Sosten Chiwotha, the Executive Director of Leadership in Environment and Development (LEAD) for Southern and Eastern Africa, environmental degradation creates vulnerability to climate change and this degradation comes because of population growth.
He further said environmental degradation brings in two extremes- excessive rainfall and drought.