Today we see that the ecological violence involved in palm oil growing has gone hand in hand with social havoc and corruption. Kenyan Nobel peace prize-winner Wangari Maathai, who mobilised Kenyans to plant 30m trees, wrote in her autobiography, Unbowed, of the first time she saw large-scale deforestation when she flew over Haiti in 1992. “It looked like someone had taken a razor and shaved the land bare. When the rains came the soil just washed away. When people call for forests to be cut down I think of Haiti and vow to do all I can to prevent that happening.”Read about the other entries on the list.
--Marshal Zeringue
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