As Long As There Is No Trust

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.

All Of Us Have A God In Us, And That God Is The Spirit That Unites All Life, Everything That Is On This Planet.

In Kenya, One Of Our Biggest Exports Is Coffee. Where Do You Grow Coffee? You Grow Coffee In The Land. To Be Able To Grow Coffee You Need Rain, You Need Special Kinds Of Soils That Are Found On Hillsides, And That Means You Have To Protect That Land From Soil Erosion So You Don't Lose The Soil. You Also Want To Make Sure That When The Rains Come You're Going To Be Able To Hold That Water And Have It Go Into The Ground So That The Streams And The Rivers Keep Flowing And The Ground Is Relatively Humid For These Plants.

Culture Is Coded Wisdom

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.