The word politics conjures, perhaps to many Kenyans like me, one very specific thing: politicians who are MPs/or Ministers, can't make any meaningful debates in the tall house in Nairobi with a clock, driving huge fuel guzzlers with money that has been stolen from the Kenyan coffers etc.
Politics, thus, is majorly associated to politicians.
I will give a limited definition found from the internet for this word, politics, as being, "In the broad sense of the word politics regards power relationships, while in the narrow sense of the word it means electoral politics and the processes by which groups of people make decisions."1
Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia adds that, politics is the process by which groups of people make decisions. Corporate, academic, and religious groups qualify as groups. And they do make certain decisions aimed at improving their activities; hence they are also political institutions in that sense - in that sense.
Having said that, I am interested in pointing out that, I fear that, virtually all around the world, politics have been the major cause of environmental damage.
For example, in Kenya, politicians have had a love lust for grabbing forest lands converting them to commercial residential estates.
The forest cover has, therefore, plummeted alarming levels. More land surfaces are bare and exposed to agents of soil erosion which lead to ugly looking landscapes, looked at literally, but grossly, filled up streams and rivers, and changes in rain patterns have long term effects!
For driving big fuel guzzles which emits poisonous co2 into the atmosphere, our politicians are for sure contributing to global warming. (I will draft a cycle to this effect in my other coming articles).
I would like to judge the politicians for hurting the environment. Help me raise the points.
I am waiting to hear from you, hoo!
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics
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