Comments on: Environment: Green Views from Africa http://globalvoicesonline.org/2007/09/21/environment-green-views-from-africa/ The world is talking. Are you listening? Mon, 28 May 2012 15:55:58 -0400 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Jane http://globalvoicesonline.org/2007/09/21/environment-green-views-from-africa/comment-page-1/#comment-1574308 Jane Tue, 28 Jul 2009 03:35:29 +0000 http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2007/09/21/environment-green-views-from-africa/#comment-1574308 Try the following: http://astore.amazon.com/gt09a-20 Great initiative !!! Jane M. Try the following:

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]]> By: Juliana Rotich http://globalvoicesonline.org/2007/09/21/environment-green-views-from-africa/comment-page-1/#comment-1196195 Juliana Rotich Tue, 25 Sep 2007 18:16:32 +0000 http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2007/09/21/environment-green-views-from-africa/#comment-1196195 Thank you for your thoughtful and insightful comment, we are trying to provide more coverage about the environment so do keep visiting us. Thanks again. Thank you for your thoughtful and insightful comment, we are trying to provide more coverage about the environment so do keep visiting us. Thanks again.

]]> By: Telesphor Magobe http://globalvoicesonline.org/2007/09/21/environment-green-views-from-africa/comment-page-1/#comment-1196158 Telesphor Magobe Tue, 25 Sep 2007 13:31:12 +0000 http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2007/09/21/environment-green-views-from-africa/#comment-1196158 Environmental destruction is like someone cutting a tree branch while seated on it without knowing that once it falls down, that person will also fall down. During Mwalimu Julius Nyerere's regime agriculture and environmental conservation were taught in schools. Pupils and students were taught both in theory and practice how to manage land and plant trees. From primary to university level education, pupils and students knew 'before one cuts a tree one has first to plant three'. During the free market economy, everything that belonged to Mwalimu was thrown away even if politicians kept praising him. Consumerism, selfishness and 'anything goes mentality' have become new our idols. Just look at water, air and environmental pollutions. Where are we heading and is there any future there? Let's learn to be like chameleon not in the sense of changing colours so often (hypocrisy) but to be deeply rooting in our past in order to move forward (progress). In otherwords, let's make use of our positive values and use them now and in the future. This, of course, includes positive indigenous knoweldge. Environmental destruction is like someone cutting a tree branch while seated on it without knowing that once it falls down, that person will also fall down.

During Mwalimu Julius Nyerere’s regime agriculture and environmental conservation were taught in schools. Pupils and students were taught both in theory and practice how to manage land and plant trees. From primary to university level education, pupils and students knew ‘before one cuts a tree one has first to plant three’.

During the free market economy, everything that belonged to Mwalimu was thrown away even if politicians kept praising him.

Consumerism, selfishness and ‘anything goes mentality’ have become new our idols. Just look at water, air and environmental pollutions. Where are we heading and is there any future there?

Let’s learn to be like chameleon not in the sense of changing colours so often (hypocrisy) but to be deeply rooting in our past in order to move forward (progress).

In otherwords, let’s make use of our positive values and use them now and in the future. This, of course, includes positive indigenous knoweldge.

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