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write a 2-3 page paper describing Wangari Maathai’s Green Belt Movement. In your response, list four ways in which we can use the forests more sustainably and list three ways in which governments and individuals can reduce tropical deforestation.Wangari Maathai’s Green Belt Movement w...
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write a 2-3 page paper describing Wangari Maathai’s Green Belt Movement. In your
response, list four ways in which we can use the forests more sustainably and list three ways in
which governments and individuals can reduce tropical deforestation.
Wangari Maathai’s Green Belt Movement was the result of Maathai’s awareness of
Kenya’s ecological decline. Maathai understood that in order to develop the social, political, and
economic condition of Kenya, a development in the country’s ecology was necessary. Maathai
understood that there existed a close connection between the social and economical degradation
of Kenya and the country’s ecological degradation which encompassed drying up of watersheds,
disappearance of streams, and the southward expansion of the desert from the Sahara
(MacDonald, 2005). She also understood that the sooner the ecological degradation could be
checked the sooner the society and economy of Kenya could be developed in a sustainable
manner.
To bring about a radical change in the ecological, social, and economic spheres of Kenya,
Maathai “hit on the idea of using trees to replenish the soil, provide fuel wood, protect watershed
and promote better nutrition (through growing fruit trees)” (MacDonald, 2005). And with the
objective to bring about an overall development of Kenya, in 1977, Wangari Maathai founded
the Green Belt Movement in Kenya and through this movement she was able to contribute to the
plantation of more than 10 million trees that eventually did prevent soil erosion in Kenya and did
provide firewood for cooking fires (Lewis, n.d.). Also it must be noted that through the Green
Belt Movement, Maathai was able to empower the Kenyan women and bring their contribution
under the light of publicity. It was Maathai who encouraged and motivated myriads of Kenyan
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