All that poverty alleviation means is an increase in exploitation of the resources, and it provides short-term and relatively superficial gains for people in Africa, |
Darfur, in my opinion, was something we could have seen 30 years ago, ... footprint. |
Degradation is a continuum, ... In virtually every ecosystem we visited, humans have colonized the landscape. Very few places are wild. The places to find wildlife are in protected areas. This is a good indicator of how deeply human species has penetrated the continent. |
He did really well on the plane. |
how deeply human beings have penetrated into all the ecosystems that we visited and to look at the relationship between human use of their habitat and their well-being. |
It gives your kids a chance to go the neighbor's house without being in the road. They are a nice amenity. |
Over the past 15 years, the human population around Lake Naivasha has gone from tens of thousand of people to hundreds of thousand of people, |
Overall, I was more impressed than depressed by what I saw, ... Many Africans have figured out what they need to do to save their environment and themselves. |
That's the last time I saw Sarah alive. Josiah was there, too. |
the resource base there has been kind of off-limits to the world at large, and now they have a great opportunity to say, 'We really want to think about sustainable development,' and there really are indicators that they want to do this. |
We're encouraged by his progress and eager to bring him home to our family. |