No Matter Who Or Where We Are,

We Have A Responsibility To Protect The Rights Of Generations, Of All Species, That Cannot Speak For Themselves Today. The Global Challenge Of Climate Change Requires That We Ask No Less Of Our Leaders, Or Ourselves.

When Resources Are Degraded, We Start Competing For Them, Whether It Is At The Local Level In Kenya, Where We Had Tribal Clashes Over Land And Water, Or At The Global Level, Where We Are Fighting Over Water, Oil, And Minerals. So One Way To Promote Peace Is To Promote Sustainable Management And Equitable Distribution Of Resources.

For Example, They Have Land. The Government Of Qatar Wants To Lease The Tana River Delta, Which Is In Kenya, From The Kenyan Government, So That They Can Produce Food There. People In Kenya Need Food. We Have People Who Have Studied Agriculture. Why Is It That If We Really Need Food, We Cannot Go Into The Delta And Develop Our Own Food?

After Hurricane Katrina, Many People Said That The Levees Were Not As Effective As The Natural Vegetation That Had Been Removed At The Coast. So That Means As We Develop These Seaside Land Masses, We Need To Have Enough Knowledge To Not Regret In The Future. We Know That The Us Government Is Literally Buying These Lands Back To Allow Them To Be Rehabilitated.

You Cannot Protect The Environment Unless You Empower People, You Inform Them, And You Help Them Understand That These Resources Are Their Own, That They Must Protect Them.