Abstract
Climate change affects various countries in varying degree. Human activities have been observed to be a major contributor to climate change. Consequently, excessive heat, variation in rainfall pattern, rise in sea level, flooding, drought, erosion among others are been experienced in different countries of the world. In Nigeria climate change is obvious and the government has been battling to meet the challenges of mitigating this without much success. The search for more sustainable climate change mitigation strategies becomes necessary. The option of traditional religious practices and values in this regard has not been adequately explored. This is what the study sets out to achieve. Drawing data from literature and in-depth interviews, the study argues that some useful African traditional religious values and practices such as respect for the land divinity, maintenance of sacred groves and forest among others offer good and alternative strategies for climate change mitigation in Nigeria. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2016.v7n6p299
Highlights
Climate change is the greatest environmental challenge the world is battling with today
This article has shown that climate change is a pervasive issue in Nigeria affecting food production, human health and generating communal clashes
The anthropogenic factor in climate change entails human activities that either increases the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere that depletes the ozone layer or activities that reduce the amount of carbons absorbed from the atmosphere
Summary
Climate change is the greatest environmental challenge the world is battling with today. According to IPCC (2001) and USNCDC (2001), the global average surface temperatures have increased by about 0.6 ± 0.2o C since the late 19th Century, and 0.2 to 0.3oC over the past 25 years. These temperature has been projected to increase by anywhere from 1.4 to 5.80 from 1990 to 2100 (Nwagbara, Ijioma, Chima, 2010:526 citing IPCC 2001). The devastating effect of climate change poses a great challenge to all the machineries put in place by Federal Government for preventing such ecological disaster In view of this situation, the rational for this study lies on the precept that African traditional religion has some ethical principles and guiding values in relation to our environment.
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