Dear critical reader, if AI technologies offer us many paths to transform Ghana into a paradise on earth where all societal demographics live well and enjoy high living standards, the question that wise and aspirational Ghanaians ought to ponder is: Must Ghana’s biodiversity-rich forests be sacrificed at the altar of gold?
That said, any nation’s leaders, seeing the horrific on-the-ground impacts of extreme weather events, ought to understand clearly that force majeure conditions exist, sanctioning the permanent banning of all surface gold mining – both legal and illegal – to secure the remainder of their nation’s priceless natural heritage. Especially as the planet’s biodiversity-rich forest reserves are now more valuable than all the minerals underneath them combined, as climate change causes landslides that bury whole communities across vast tracts of land inundated by flash floods, making such affected regions uninhabitable seasonally with frightening regularity, now globally – oooo, Ghanafuor. Yooooooooooo…
The plain truth is that failure by our hard-of-hearing, criticism-averse leaders to halt the egregious destruction by recalcitrant bad actors – numbering less than 2 million at the most, it ought to be pointed out – who don’t give a toss about the fate of the rest of the over 30 million law-abiding Ghanaians affected by the poisoning of our major river systems, streams, groundwater, and soils nationwide, will sink our ship of state, as sure as day follows night, Ghanafuor. Hmmm, 3y3nsem piii, oooo. Yooooooooooo…
Finally, dear critical reader, we have reached a pivotal stage in our journey as an African democracy, where nothing short of bold and firm leadership is now required, paaaa, ankasa, oooo, Ghanafuor. As wise and aspirational Africans in the AI era, under no circumstances should we allow Ghana’s biodiversity-rich forests to be sacrificed at the altar of gold. Full stop. Case closed. Yoooooooooo. A word to the wise… Hmmm, Anansesemkrom Oman Ghana paaa diy33 – tweaaaaaaaaa…
