You Cannot Enslave A Mind

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.

We See That The Environment Is Something To Exploit, Because We See The Environment In Terms Of Minerals For Example, Or Forests, Or Even Raw Materials That We Produce On Our Land, Or Even Land Itself. We See It In Terms Of What We Can Exploit Rather Than The Medium In Which All Of These Activities Have To Take Place.

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.

We Can Love Ourselves By Loving The Earth.

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