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Maathai Speaks About Drought in Horn of Africa
Nobel Laureate and Green Belt Movement (GBM) founder Wangari Maathai recently spoke from Nairobi on US National Public Radio (NPR) about the underlying causes of the drought and famine in East Africa.
On the deteriorating situation now affecting her homeland Wangari said:
“One tragedy is the one that we have been addressing for decades and that is environmental degradation. Unfortunately, governments in this area have not taken the issue of environmental degradation seriously.... There is absolutely no reason whatsoever why the government cannot say today, ‘no more grazing in the forest, no more settlements, no more cultivation in the forest’, so that the rivers can flow and reach the people who are being hit by disaster.”
Listen to the full interview here.