Editorial: Climate Change; Of Using Charcoal or Burning Kerosene on Campus, Twin Sisters Coming from Different Mothers

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Two phase climate 

Attempts to navigate alternative means of fossil fuel to reduce climate crisis have increasingly become the topic of discussion and area of investigation in every nook and cranny of the world.

However, students' efforts especially on campus always come with drawbacks due to increasing cost of living, skyrocketing costs of commodities and other unruly factors.

Using Usmanu Danfodiyo University as a case study, students face challenges of switching to other alternative fuels such as electric cookers, and cooking gas, due to the restrictions of the usage in the University halls of residence.

Furthermore, due to the increasing price of kerosene, many of the students leverage burning charcoal which is the next most affordable fuel majority of the average students can afford after kerosene.

Consequentially, both kerosene and charcoal contribute significantly to climate crisis which is one of the hardest global challenges we face today.

Kerosene as a fossil fuel, releases large amounts of CO2, a greenhouse gas, in the air. This greenhouse gas traps heat coming from the sun in the atmosphere thereby increasing global warming and hence influencing climate change. 

Aside from the environmental challenges, exposure to Carbon dioxide leads to several health challenges including restlessness, dizziness, needles feeling, elevated pressure and even death, when the effects are adverse. While rising levels of CO2 in the atmosphere drive an increase spurring plant growth, it must be yet the chief culprit of Climate change.

Burning Charcoal 


The effect of charcoal has, however, started from the process of its production; deforestation. Deforestation has many serious consequences for the environment because apart from biodiesel threats, trees that absorb and store the harmful carbon dioxide are destroyed. This means that fewer available trees reduce the planet's overall ability to capture and store CO2. 

Climate change experts have suggested that this climate change are consequential result of our amalgamated thoughts and actions. So both burning kerosene and using charcoal contribute negatively to the greenhouse effect and climate change.

About the author: 

Abdulhakami Junaidu Rabiu is a final-year student of the Department of Energy and Applied Chemistry at Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto and the Editor-in-chief, Gamji Press UDUS.

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