The Conversation with Wangari Maathai

[Smiley and West]

	Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai fighting for environmental justice.

[William J Sullivan Jr.]

Great discussion and thank you for allowing Wangari to speak without interruption, unlike most interviews we are accustomed to hearing in the media.

[sharon lovely]

IT is a great honor to comment on your conversation with Wangari Maathai who fights for environmental justice...as I listen to her speak about greenhouse gases and global warming, energy policies,a green economy,solar ,hydro and wind power...I realized that i too am living in excess being a consumer rather than a producer on a personal level.So by hearing the word and how we are destroying this earth I have become Green eventhough I am Black.Wangari Maathai you have open my eyes to truth and have exemplified that the power of one can truly make a difference.You inspired me to join this Green Movement on a local level and hopefully with further education of the Truth I too will work toward a National level what ever i can do to be of use.Distrubution of resources and the conectivity of being poor in U.S.impacted my soul knowing that every thing is truly polictical and we must open our eyes to what is really going on...we must educate our people...stop this mass consumerism...go back to simplier times and stop destroying the earth. Is that why we continue to lauch space ships to see the possibility of inhabiting other planets?Do we not care about saving this one?How much fuel and gases are poluting this earth every time NASA lauches a rocket into space?...Are they in fact creating these blackholes in the universe?They say life is a circle...I see a cirlce of Greed where the U.S. is at the top of the list...disgusting and shameful for us not to sign the Kyoto Protocol ...where IS our Humanity?The more I learn,the more I see that everything is political ...even the air we breathe.Thank you for sharing your wisdom you have open my eyes to the truth.I will pass this gift of truth on to others with my last breath in my polluted lungs.God may he Bless you always... Great Daughter of this Earth. Peace.

[Geoffrey Shaw]

Why is this woman not speaking to a wider audience than Oprah, what a font of wisdom she is. I think the beginning of social justice is an alternative to the Stock Market for people to invest their excess wealth and resources. The Stock Market is totally aimless except to manufacture wealth and it results in an economy that feeds upon itself. What I see is an investment vehicle with goals such as expanding healthy agriculture, alternative energy, affordable shelter, holistic health, art and entertainment that opens communication, efficient means of transportation, and creating better urban environments so we don't encourage needless sprawl. We need to pool together money, land, vacant buildings, and knowledge in a way that makes sense for humanity and the earth. Most of all we need to live in peace so we are not distracted from the more important priorities that compassionate and intelligent people can visualize. When like minded people band together and show that they can make this happen then the sheep that believe the answers lie in a bigger flat screen and a flashier automobile will have to see the error of their ways and join in the desire for a better world. We cannot ignore the earth we live on, there are too many canaries in the coal mine to ignore.

[J Kelly-Moore]

Bless her heart; may she rest in the knowledge that her work will continue.

[LibyaWest]

Rest In Peace, good sister.  Thanks for your work.  Godspeed.

 

 

TREES
by: Joyce Kilmer (1886-1918)

 I think that I shall never see 
A poem lovely as a tree.

A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth's sweet flowing breast;

A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;

A tree that may in Summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;

Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.

Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.