A new perspective on combating poverty Protecting the Environment Will Combat Poverty: Wangari Maathai

Edited by Ellen Kalisperati Sociologist

The morning plenary session at the Clinton Global Initiative meeting last Friday was on the "Global Impact of Rural Innovation" and had quite a distinguished panel of speakers. Well, every session at CGI had impressive credentials, but this one was particularly inspirational. Here are some of the highlights from Wangari Maathai , founder of the Green Belt Movement in Kenya:If You Destroy the Environment, Poverty Cannot be Eliminated

I eventually found out that no matter what we do, after the global level, even at the national level, that it is extremely grassroots level, and the majority of the people that we have mentioned here, when we mention poverty, we are thinking about a large number of people at the grassroot level.

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