CHILDREN'S ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCE CONSERVATION, FULCRUM OF SUSTAINABLE ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA

Abstract

Sustainable development is all-encompassing and requires environmental resources imbued in the environment. Thus, attaining effective sustainable development calls for an enduring environment whose carrying capacity has not tampered hence, sustainable environment, consequently, conscious efforts must be garnered to ensure it. Since bad habits are an easy task to erase, there is the need to get children involved in the campaign at a tender age and enlist their technological inclinations in ensuring an environmentally friendly stance. This study determines the impact of children's environmental resource conservation on sustainable environment and development in Nigeria sub-Saharan Africa. Among others, it was observed that the environmental wars on many occasions do not involve children, the future leaders laden with technological innovations and population; the state of the environment arising from human impacts in the present dispensation requires concerted efforts to drive change; such changes requires right attitude to the environment and environmental friendly posture; children possess teachable spirits, vast in the technological waves and thus, constitute the fulcrum of the current environmental concern. It is imperative therefore to provide an enabling environment that can drive children's technological inclinations, necessary resources, and materials for them to participate effectively in driving a sustainable environment achievable through necessary encouragement.