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...already a key instigator of conflict in areas like Darfur, where drought likely worsened by global warming helped trigger a civil war that has claimed over 200,000 lives. (Nor are Gore and the IPCC the first greens to win the Peace Prize; that would be the Kenyan Wangari Maathai, a conservationist and political activist who won in 2004.) As the IPCC's own reports this year show, unabated global warming will likely lead to competition for increasingly scarce resources and create waves of climate refugees in the hottest and poorest nations. A warmer world will almost certainly...
...WANGARI MAATHAI The Kenyan M.P., an environmentalist, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004. I propose Liberia's Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Africa's first elected female head of state. The choice is an inspiration, especially for girls, who can believe that one day they can make it. Her election lifts a cloud. I'd also select Costa Rica's President, Oscar Arias Sánchez, who has pursued peace in his region, and Burmese opposition leader and jailed dissident Aung San Suu Kyi, who is not breaking under pressure the rest of us will never have to face...
JILL KER CONWAY 1975 First woman president of Smith College, one of 12 women honored in 1975 I'd select Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai. She is the most important woman in the environmental movement right now, single-handedly raising awareness of consequences of deforestation in Africa. The Kenyan government has persecuted, jailed and beaten her, but she has never deviated from her message...
Professor and Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai of Kenya charmed a large crowd gathered at Harvard’s Institute of Politics (IOP) Friday afternoon with a speech detailing her experience as an environmental, social, and political activist...
...African Heroine I read with interest the TIME 100 list of influential people [April 18]. Thank you for including Wangari Maathai, the Kenyan Member of Parliament who won the Nobel Peace Prize for founding the environmentalist Green Belt Movement in her country. As your story noted, it isn't easy being green in the developing world. The showcasing of Maathai along with several other achievers from Africa will continue to inform the world that even though the political and economic steps of development are still being choreographed, Africa has the intellectual ability to promote the peaceful and economic fortunes...