self extermination/anialation/destruction.. What ever you want to call it!!

self extermination/anialation/destruction.. What ever you want to call it!!

Category: Uncategorized | Date: Oct 12 2008 | By: milgistrust

I just keep seeing it over and over again..All I know is that I can’t help but keep thinking that ‘How can people with such pure good tribal beliefs and rules, possibly let them selves get into such an extraordinary problem’… Can’t they see for them selves what the over grazing situation is doing to their land, can’t they see what happens when you burn the forest…Unbelievable irreversible errosion…, terrible 12 feet gullies, large areas with no top soil left, large areas in the mountains that used to be forest, reduced to bear rock… I keep on telling myself maybe its the modern world that we live in that is not helping, nobody is willing to help them selves, because they wait for help from others??…WHY??? Were they doing this 100 years ago?? The other day some women came to ask me for help, because they were were hungry, and their goats are thin, but just a kilometre away was a huge forest fire… I told them I’m sorry I can’t help you if you can’t help yourselves..[ ‘My motto’ you have to be cruel to be kind’ ] I know its either one of your husbands, or sons that has lit the fire… this fire is burning all the trees that saved the day by producing so many seed pods..[ Thanks to Nature, 10/8/08] Its time for the women to gather that ‘inner strength’ and get on top of the problem..

On my last safari we came across many many trees that have been cut down to feed their hungry goats, with absolutely no thought of tomorrow… I saw a film the other day… It was called ‘the tree of life’.. It was about a guy cutting down a tree, in a beautiful forest… The sounds of the cutting disturbed every one around, the animals ran away,and the people just listened, but nobody did any thing… When the tree fell down, the man was so exhausted he collapsed in a heap… When he opened his eyes he found that he was in a desert with nothing… Nothing at all.. When he was trying to find his way out he came across a sapling growing in the desert… He sheltered it with his loin cloth, so as to help it grow… WHY DO WE WAIT UNTIL WE GET TO THIS STAGE BEFORE WE DO ANY THING…I would love to get my hands on that film and show every one in northern Frontier District!

One Response to “self extermination/anialation/destruction.. What ever you want to call it!!”

Jan - Boston, on 12 Oct 2008

Thank you for sharing this example and for your “tough love” response to the women. It was the right thing to do. In fact I might use it myself when asked for help in Africa. As you state, until people start taking responsibility for their own actions, the future will be bleak.

However, I feel the African governments also need to share the blame. They don’t stress enough to the people WHY they need to start taking care of their environment nor do they punish enough those who are abusing the environment. They look the other way.

One prays that the people will wake up before it’s too late.

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