Monday, September 26, 2011
Wangari Maathai
It is with sadness that I read about the passing of the Nobel Prize winning environmental and human rights activist Wangari Maathai. Charlie and I wrote about her work in Kenya in The Failure of Environmental Education. The NY Times obit provides a nice outline of her successes. We need more brave people like her.
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I had not taken special notice of her until I heard her interviewed on Krista Tippett's radio show in the last year or two. There are human beings whose strength and intelligence gives one joy and hope, as well as a renewed pride in ones fellows.
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