“All that poverty alleviation means is an increase in exploitation of the resources, and it provides short-term and relatively superficial gains for people in Africa,”
“Degradation is a continuum, ... In virtually every ecosystem we visited, humans have colonized the landscape. Very few places are wild. The places to find wildlife are in protected areas. This is a good indicator of how deeply human species has penetrated the continent.”
“how deeply human beings have penetrated into all the ecosystems that we visited and to look at the relationship between human use of their habitat and their well-being.”
“the resource base there has been kind of off-limits to the world at large, and now they have a great opportunity to say, 'We really want to think about sustainable development,' and there really are indicators that they want to do this.”
“Overall, I was more impressed than depressed by what I saw, ... Many Africans have figured out what they need to do to save their environment and themselves.”
