Bisase warns Uganda - stop frying the planet, use gas, not trees

Sadam Bisase Zakaria, who heads the Congress Services Volunteers group, says Ugandans need to stop wrecking their own environment. He pointed directly at people cutting down trees, constructing buildings in wetlands, and setting fires to bushes as the main reasons for the country's crazy, unpredictable weather right now. Bisase argued that this destruction has messed up farming cycles so badly that people can't plan when to plant crops anymore, which he says is a fast track to more hunger and poverty across the board.

His big fix is getting households to switch away from using so much firewood and charcoal for cooking, since making charcoal is a huge driver of deforestation. He pushed for adopting gas or better stoves, but stressed that gas needs to be made way cheaper and easier for everyone to get. He even tossed out the idea of the government figuring out how to make gas from trash in cities as a potential solution. Bisase also slammed investors who put factories in wetlands, blaming them for the constant floods that wipe out homes and farms.

The call was for a joint effort between regular citizens and the government to actually protect and fix the environment. His final warning was pretty blunt: if nothing changes, expect the climate disasters to get a whole lot worse.