Education’s crucial role in community Climate Change Adaptation

The most vulnerable to climate change are those living in developing countries and poor regions worldwide.

When faced with a changing climate, educated people tend to seek out information and adjust their behaviour, making them more resilient to climate change.

An example is the Lolokuru brothers in Kenya, Africa. Shadrack and his brother Robert are accountants in Nairobi, while their older brother Lkitotian is uneducated.

The three brothers raise cattle, but with climate change reducing water supplies, Shadrack decides to sell half of his herds to prevent some of them from dying from thirst.

The Horn of Africa is facing the worst drought in four decades this year, and for the Lolokuru family, the harsh weather is becoming their way of life.

Even though many of their neighbours have lost their herd due to harsh conditions, Lkitotian, the older brother, still refuses to reduce the number of his cows. The sad part is that most of their uneducated neighbours also share Lkitotian views and don’t believe in climate change but expect the climate to return to how it was many generations ago.

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