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One Of The Reasons Why We Started The Green Belt Movement Is To Work With These Ordinary Peasant Farmers So As To Educate Them That, Despite The Fact That They Are Poor, It Is In Their Interest To Protect The Soil That They Have, To Protect The Forest They Have, To Protect The Land That They Have, Because If They Don't Do It, Things Can Be Only Worse Tomorrow For Them For Them And For Their Children.

When These Resources Are Degraded Or Polluted, Then There Are Fewer Of Them For The Rest Of Us, And Then We Start Competing For Them And Eventually As We Compete, There Are Those Of Us, Who Have The Capacity, Who Have The Ability To Be The Controllers, To Decide Who Accesses Them, How Much They Access, And Eventually There Is A Conflict. Those Who Feel Marginalized, Those Who Feel Excluded, Eventually React In An Effort To Get Their Own Justice, And We Have Conflict.

It Would Be Good For Us Africans To Accept Ourselves As We Are And Recapture Some Of The Positive Aspects Of Our Culture.

I Was Particularly Talking With Respect To Aid, Because That To Me Is One Area That Can Make People So Dependent, And Unfortunately, That Dependency Starts With The Government.

One Of The Reasons Why I Say We All Need To Work Together To Save The Congo Forest, Because If We Don't Save The Congo Forest, The Amazon Forest And The Southeast Asia Forest, If Those Forests Release The Carbon They Are Trapping At The Moment, Much Of What You Will Be Doing In The North Will Be Negated By The Amount Of Carbon Released Into The Atmosphere.