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CHAPTER: 7 NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON THE LIVELIHOODS OF RURAL HOUSEHOLDS
Abstract
In this chapter negative effects of climate change are explored. The Chapter is a follow-up of issues that emerged in the first and preliminary study carried out in Chapter 4. Scholarly evidence reveal the pivotal role of greenhouse gas emissions as being fundamental both the world's energy system and to its food production. The same gases are implicated in bringing negative effects in climate. A good example in which greenhouse gases are emitted is thermal energy. Thermal energy is a result of breaking the chemical bonds the carbohydrates oil, coal, and natural gas as well as oxidizing the components to carbon dioxide and water. The result is climate variability which include global warming, shift in seasons, winds and occurrences such as cyclones, heat waves and floods. A descriptive design using a Likert scale was use as a data collection tool.
A sample size of 32 community people including rain makers, chiefs and other traditional leaders, men, women and youths of both sex was used in this study. These respondents conveniently selected to participate in the study. It was revealed in this study that climate change the current challenge in Chimanimani District which required multiple approaches to handle. The respondents argued that dissemination of indigenous knowledge of rain making methods that were being currently being used were not effective. Information was being passed on through oral means which was threatened with extinction. No one was in fact trying to embrace the use of modern technology and social media such as the radio, television, Whatsapp or Facebook. People lamented treatment of IKS as being mere history rather than active knowledge for use in daily lives by today’s generation. One of these approaches being complementarity of indigenous rain making practices with the conventional ones.
Key Words: climate change, indigenous rain making, negative effects, greenhouse effect, conventional rain making
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