The frequency with which tidal waves are causing havoc along some towns along our coasts especially in the Volta Region is a pointer to how we are not being spared the climate change phenomenon.
The subject is no longer an abstract one but one which has already made a landfall on our part of the world and too glaring to be ignored.
A couple of days ago or so 600 residents in coastal communities in the Ketu South Municipality of the Volta Region suffered the ravaging effects of tidal waves.
That is not the first time coastal communities have come under angry waves of the ocean. It is a fact however, and frighteningly so that the trend is part of a climate phenomenon upon which global leaders and environmentalists have riveted their attention upon.
Those who are championing the cause of the climate and its negative fallouts will do well to flaunt this occurrence to support their conversation with the Ghanaian populace.
This way all of us can in our own small and diverse ways contribute towards addressing this natural reaction to our bad relationship with the environment.
The effective education about the far-reaching natural phenomenon would go a long way in having us appreciate the importance of the measures fashioned out by scientists to halt the fallouts from the climate change visiting humanity globally.
Last Saturday, for the first time a community suffered a similar tidal outrage when a section of the Aflao to Keta road was taken over by seawater. The development left many homes flooded with water and is tells us about how the trend of tidal waves is not receding.
Many more tidal waves would visit communities which hitherto had not witnessed the climate phenomenon unless the all-encompassing bad practices globally abate. Of course this would not happen without global efforts by politicians of the great emitters.
Our own President is part of the global conversation in Glasgow, Scotland and that speaks volumes about the importance of the subject vis a vis our country.
We as part of the developing world our contribution towards the disturbing environmental situation we find ourselves relatively insignificant, yet we are being compelled to swallow the pill by the major polluters of the global space.
Undoubtedly we should do more to protect our rainforest and not follow the ways of the Amazonian countries.
Even as we refuse to swallow the pill of reversing the trend as being prescribed by the rich emitters because of the catastrophic effects that would have on our economies we nonetheless must adopt contributory measures towards ameliorating the approaching climate Armageddon.
What our coastal communities are suffering at the hands of tidal waves occasioned by climate change is nowhere the situation in the Pacific Island nation of Fiji which has lost lands and crops to rising tides among others both one thing in common: they share the reality of how fast the world is succumbing to the forces of nature.