The interview with Wangari Muta Maathai is fascinating. I like the idea of green belt
movement. It remembers me a quote from Chinese.
Teaching other how to fish is better than giving them fish. The way Mr. Maathai
is a testimony of this idea of teaching. What
he did is very useful for people in Kenya rather than just giving them food and
aid.
It is hard for me to understand how to connect the environmental problem with
civil and world peace at first. From this interview, I actually learned lots from her. Protecting
the environment for sustainable development is essential. Moreover,
sustainability will change how people are
living by providing them jobs and food. When people’s life are secured with food and job, the conflict will be minimalized, which means maybe the war will
be over. There is several sense of war. One
is a war for countries regard of national
interest, which some natural interests are natural resources. One is the war
for the right, which she leads woman work
together and create a better world. Another
one is a war for poverty, which is how their movement brings
people economic benefit. The last one is a war
against the environmental problem.
It is an idea of a triple bottom line: economy, society,
and the environment. From my perspective, I think the ultimate result
for the triple bottom line is harmony,
which people with people, country with country, and human with natural and so
on. The harmony can serve the fundamental force for civil rights, world peace.
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