"Educating" villagers

Environmental-Expert.com - A village tries new ideas to beat climate change

The people of Ha Tsiu realise that something is very wrong with the weather. Lebakeng asks the IRIN reporter: 'Do you know what is happening?' He, Ma Mokhachane and his wife, called Ma Lebakeng by the villagers, are amazed to learn of the connection between their lives and the greenhouse gas emissions of industries and cars in cities far away.

They look up at the sky, trying to spot the gases warming up their part of the world. 'Yes, the sun has been getting hotter,' says Ma Mokhachane.

Scenarios based on projections by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change show that by 2045 Lesotho will face severe water shortages, and the government's national report on climate change has noted that there will be even less rainfall by 2075.