Modern sciences and climate change

Due to the fluctuating climate, people knew how to survive and being resilient in a semi-arid climate and we may say that it was an indigenous knowledge, inherited from generations and almost genetical. It’s not astonishing that, even today, there are proposals to move Gaborone to greener pastures. But – there is a technical, modern scientific hindrance in the shape of investments in very expensive modern infrastructure!

The colonialism came with a strong concept of making the colonies legible by mapping, indicating land uses (and pretended ownerships) plus various petty infrastructure like churches, schools, monasteries and the possibility of taxing huts started. Able people were moved from agriculture to a labour reserve for mines, monetised by the hut tax – small farmers were put in an unsustainable situation by modern science already then. Quite clearly, we see results today!