SOLAR POWER, ELECTRICITY AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE EMERGENCY

By Feyisade Charles Adeyemi

Let me break it down for you. By 2030 i.e just add 13 years to your age.

Okay done.

By then, India (Nigeria`s biggest purchaser of crude oil) would have completely replaced fossil fuel with solar/renewable energy (As I type, they are already using solar powered train not to mention cars), no more buying of crude oil from Nigeria. Same for Netherlands and most other Western countries out there. UK and France have set a deadline of 2040, that is 23 years from today(Add 23 years to your age or better still, the age of your children). You can google their timetables for phasing out fossil fuels use. .......

Now the people leading Nigeria today and all those regular players you are lining up for 2019, what is their plan for 13 years from today?
How many of them will even be alive by then? How many of them really care about what happens 13 or 23 years from today?

How many are even capable of envisioning the world in 13 years from today?

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

The robots are here already.

Those electric cars replacing your petrol cars are all self driving robots.

Robots are already taking over from doctors.

In many western countries, most jobs will be robotised by 2040 and the Internet of Things will be as real as your Facebook is today.

Some countries are already thinking of how to pay all citizens just for being alive as good citizens, for travelling the world and having children because robots will do all the work.

What part of this global conversation is Nigeria in?

Who in government even understands these things let alone the implications of these?

Who are the people you want to vote in 2019 that can even engage these issues that will become your reality in just about 13 years from today?

Is Nigeria not the same country that`s produced some of the most intelligent black people on the planet who routinely clear the awards in the worlds ivy league universities every year?

Is this how young Nigerians will watch the BLACK MAN`S biggest country retrogress irretrievably into a sub-human state?

Is that how we plan to prove that we are not inferior to the white man?

By sitting back and whining at, or admiring photos shot in London?

If good people don`t rise up to the national emergency that Nigeria is today, then there is no future in this land and by future, I mean 13 years from today.

Add that to your age.