{"id":40766,"date":"2017-02-15T08:46:53","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T06:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=40766"},"modified":"2017-02-15T08:46:53","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T06:46:53","slug":"lake-malawi-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2017\/02\/15\/lake-malawi-appeal\/","title":{"rendered":"Lake Malawi appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Environmental activist Godfrey Mfiti\u2019s book, titled <em>Lake Malawi: The Coming Disaster<\/em>, may have taken great effort and months to write, but the Blantyre-based author is quickly learning that one does not need to generate a lot of fire to light up people\u2019s interest in a work of art.<\/p>\n<p>Barely a month after publishing <em>Lake Malawi: The Coming Disaster<\/em>, Mfiti has attracted the attention of the Wildlife and Environmental Society (Wesm), who on Tuesday asked him to address the issues raised in the book.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cActually, Blantyre Wesm branch invited me to talk about the book and make a presentation on their anniversary celebration. I actually talked for 15 minutes, thereby giving (Wesm) members a chance to sample my book,\u201d Mfiti said in an interview.<\/p>\n<p>The author is billed to make the presentation on the same in Lilongwe on February 23.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cActually, we will have a book launch at Four Seasons Nature Garden at a Lilongwe Wesm function. I will give a public lecture for an hour and, thereafter, launch the book,\u201d Mfiti said.<\/p>\n<p>The book is a reaction to the government\u2019s decision to issue licences to Sure-stream Petroleum and Rak Gas to start exploring oil and gas in the fresh water lake.<\/p>\n<p><em>Lake Malawi: The Coming Disaster <\/em>depicts current challenges Lake Malawi is facing. These include climate change, overfishing, unsustainable siltation from Lake Malawi\u2019s tributaries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis book is a wakeup call to policy makers, especially the government. My expectation is that the book will enlighten them on the dangers that innocent people will be exposed to. I believe that the book will force the government to abandon the project in order to save our lake and the lives that depend on it for survival,\u201d Mfiti said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Environmental activist Godfrey Mfiti\u2019s book, titled Lake Malawi: The Coming Disaster, may have taken great effort and months to write, but the Blantyre-based author is quickly learning that one does not need to generate a lot of fire to light up people\u2019s interest in a work of art. Barely a month after publishing Lake Malawi: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":40012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40767,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40766\/revisions\/40767"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}