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See book keywords and concepts |  Recognition of wangari Maathai with the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize for her work on environmental restoration in Ethiopia's countryside shows that environmental refugees, who now outnumber political refugees, are an emerging global concern. People may endure temporary droughts, but desertification forces emigration once the land can no longer sustain either grazing or farming.
Desertification is not just happening in Africa. More than a tenth of Earth's land area is desertifying—about a third of the planet's dry lands. |
Jeremy P. Tarcher
See book keywords and concepts |  The Horns that Hold Up the Sky
Listening to wangari, I reflect on my own fears, which despite my best efforts, I still feel: fear of loneliness, of criticism, of ineffectiveness. These fears seem puny next to hers, yet I've struggled with varying success to overcome them. So I'm curious to know what has made her able to face the life-and-death fears that she has.
"I have paid a heavy price, which is sometimes what people fear. When you step forward, you get exposed. Sometimes you get criticized, sometimes you lose friends—I lost a friend called a husband. | | I see it in Wangari's life. We can choose.
So, when Ethiopian Airlines tells us they can't locate us in their comput-ers, though we hold our tickets in our hands, Anna and I discover Green-Belt-style chutzpah. We have a mission; we must get home to tell our story. We don't budge, and mysteriously our reservations pop up.
KENYA: AWAKENING OUR SENSES
Celebrating "Root "Vegetables Soup
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Serves Rutabagas, turnips, and parsnips don't normally get a whole lot of attention, but this delicious soup, at long last, provides their fifteen minutes of fame. | | I want to scream back, but instead grumble only to Anna, "It's not that drought isn't a problem, but why can't these writers see what we've just seen, what wangari sees: It's people who make deserts, who turn drought into disaster."
It's not hard to grasp how this disaster has been created. Coffee trees we saw everywhere in Kyaume are only part of the sacrifice of traditional crops that evolved in Africa precisely because they could withstand periodic drought. | | Anna surprised wangari wants to continue, given the hour, but she seems determined to help us understand.
"I grew up in the Rift Valley," she tells us, "and on either side there were ridges. On all sides I could see the limit. I believed that was the whole world. I believed that the ridges—where the sky or, quite often, the clouds would reach the mountains—were where the world ended.
"I remember asking my mother, 'Why doesn't the sky come down, because everything else comes down, but not the sky? | | Sometimes I get burnt, sometimes I get crushed, but I cross over." wangari smiles, adding, "There's always another promise on the other side."
The whir of the generator has stopped, and the lights are bright again. The power is back on, which means it must be past eleven p.m.—the ration shuts off the city's electricity from six in the morning to eleven at night. I'm
Ik' 1 m ¦ • hacked this finger completely off. I was using my left hand to protect my heart. I had lost three fingers. I started to use this hand, but I thought I don't want to waste my right hand, too, so I better use my legs. | | Listening to wangari, I feel I'm in the seminar with her. I like her emphasizing that we can all be misled. It spares one feeling like a total loser if one's life is not what one wants it to be. Yet it doesn't take us off the hook, either, because we've allowed ourselves to be misled. It's a gentle avenue into people's hearts.
"Then we ask, 'What are all the problems you have—in your own life, in your family, in your community, maybe even in your own nation?' Very quickly they give all the problems: hunger, lack of water, no transport, poor education, no books. |
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