So GMOs, who knows? Maybe GMOs will come, they will get maize that produces double. But who knows what else may happen to the maize?
Wangari MaathaiWe are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible.
Wangari MaathaiWe can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind.
Wangari MaathaiWhy do we have to have people come from afar to come and grow food for us, or to grow food to sell to us? It is partly because we are almost becoming used to people doing things for us. Like somebody else is going to solve that problem for us. And that to me is very disempowering system.
Wangari MaathaiNow when Nile perch was introduced [into Lake Victoria], I don't think enough research was done; maybe it was done, maybe it was not. But Nile perch is a huge fish. So it ate all the little fish, and it grew into a monster which the local people could not fish with their little boats and their little nets.
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