Until You Dig A Hole, You Plant

I Think That For Anybody Who Has Worked In The Civil Society, Government Bureaucracy Moves Very Very Slowly.

We Can Work Together For A Better World With Men And Women Of Goodwill, Those Who Radiate The Intrinsic Goodness Of Humankind.

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.

For The Rains And The Rivers You Need Forests And You Need To Make Sure These Your Forests Are All Protected, That There Is No Logging, That There Is No Charcoal Burning And All The Activities That Destroy The Forest. All This Really Needs To Be Done So That You Can Be Able To Grow Good Coffee, So That You Can Have An Income, So That You Can Send Your Children To School, So That You Can Buy Medicine, So That You Can Take Them To Hospitals, So That You Can Care For The Women, Especially Mothers.

The People Are Learning That You Cannot Leave Decisions Only To Leaders. Local Groups Have To Create The Political Will For Change, Rather Than Waiting For Others To Do Things For Them. That Is Where Positive, And Sustainable, Change Begins.