The Little Grassroots People Can

When Resources Are Degraded, We Start Competing For Them, Whether It Is At The Local Level In Kenya, Where We Had Tribal Clashes Over Land And Water, Or At The Global Level, Where We Are Fighting Over Water, Oil, And Minerals. So One Way To Promote Peace Is To Promote Sustainable Management And Equitable Distribution Of Resources.

The Issue Of Climate Change, It Really Does Bring Home The Fact That We Are On One Planet, And That Some Of The Impact Of What Human Beings Do In One Corner Of The World Is Going To Affect People In A Distant Corner Of The World. So We May Still Feel Very Far From Each Other, But We Are Really Very Close To Each Other Because Of The Changes We Have Made With Travel And Technology And Especially The Information Technology.

Sometimes I Feel Frustration At The Bureaucracy For Not Moving Fast Enough To Deliver In The Way That I Would Prefer. But That Is Probably Because I Have Worked For Many Years In The Civil Society, Which Tends To Move Much Faster Than Government.

The Issue Of Carbon Is One Area Where We Really Need To Work Together And If People Don't Have The Technology They Need, That Technology Needs To Be Made Available And Affordable.

The Essential Role Of The Environment Is Still Marginal In Discussions About Poverty. While We Continue To Debate These Initiatives, Environmental Degradation, Including The Loss Of Biodiversity And Topsoil, Accelerates, Causing Development Efforts To Falter.