ENGAGING RURAL YOUTH ON CLIMATE CHANGE: If nothing is done now, 50 years from today my grandchild, 16 years old then will be in his S.4 geography tour in case the curriculum doesn’t change, will write to me, “a lone tree stands in an expanse of a brown landscape in Mombokolo Desert, Uganda. Mombokolo is in Uganda’s wettest central. According to the 2047 tree census, there is about a single tree for every three square kilometers in Mombokolo and there is no evidence of another life around the tree. The youth convene under this tree for shade and to smoke the cigar and never thinking about planting more for more shades. Who did this? Is this the tree of the forbidden fruit?” I will write back to my grandchild simply but painfully, “dear grandson Robin Woods, neither is the tree forbidden nor is its fruit. The lumbers went to get more oil for their harvester machine to fell it. It may survive if the smokers put up a fight to defend their shade. Let me hope you still have the drinkin...