Cai,+Henry3

Kenya's Ice Caps
Kenya has a Mountain named Mt. Kenya. In Kenya, much is needed from this ice cap mountain. Resources including rain, water and electricity (hydro-power). But now, it seems that Kenya's ice caps are melting, this 17,057 foot tall mountain has already lost 92% of its ice from the past one hundred years, and yet it is continually losing its ice, (predicted by 2050 all ice will be lost and gone). However, it does not seem that this was all merely "Climate Change" and "Global Warming". It seems to be the recent activity in the area surrounding Mt. Kenya. It seems that the cutting of forests, gathering charcoal and paper production has made the ice caps melt. "The government really shot itself in the foot." said Njau project coordinator for the Nairobi-based Green Belt Movement. The tradition in Kenya for Mt. Kenya is slowly dying, piece by piece, just like Mt. Kenya itself.

Sources: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-tc-nw-climate-mtkenya-1111-1nov12,0,1773063.story http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-climate-mtkenya10-2009nov10,0,3451662.story?page=2

These sources are highly similar, and without any thought, maybe even the same. The language used is quite similar, language such as "crisis of faith", and both speak of "oral traditions" slowly disintegrating into a mere pile of nothing. I believe this is quite sad, honestly. How could a beautiful mountain like Mt. Kenya, holding so many traditions, have its beauty (ice caps) destroyed in a mere century and a fifth? This, in turn, shows how we humans can mess our environment up.