Posted on 10/08/2004 2:23:14 AM PDT by Lonely Bull
OSLO - Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai, known for her work as leader of an organization that has planted more than 30 million trees across Africa has won the Nobel Peace Prize.
She is the first African woman and seventh African to win the prize since it was first awarded in 1901.
"Thank you so much, I am so surprised," she told Norwegian state television. "I am absolutely overwhelmed and very emotionally charged, really. I did not expect this."
The committee had a record 194 nominations.
The prize, which includes $1.6 million is awarded in Oslo.
Guess it just wasn't Tommy Franks' year.
"leader of an organization that has planted more than 30 million trees across Africa"
Geez, now they will have forest fires to contend with.
As if plagues of locusts, droughts and other catasrophes they already have were not enough......
What do you want to bet that the African tribes people are cutting down those very same trees for wood... And replanting nothing... And in a few years will be no different than it was before this.
Perhaps not. But I bet it's likely.
Once again, the award goes to someone whose laurels are based on symbolism over substance. Incidentally, Maathai is a graduate of Mount St. Scholastica College in Kansas (now known as Benedictine College after its merger with St. Bendict's), run by politcally radical nuns who champion every liberal cause in the book (including the destruction of Roman Catholicism).
An I thought this story was about "Got Wood."
BTW, Maathai graduated from the Mount College with a degree in Biology.
It's quite orthodox now.
It's quite orthodox now.
Orthodox? I guess, if you're comparing it to most other so-called "Catholic" colleges, or if you're using a post-Vatican II measuring rod. If you're a traditional Catholic (who knows what St. Benedict's used to stand for), there's a long way to go.
The point of my original post was this: the Mount was pretty whacked out when Wangari Maathai was there as a student. Her weird ideas about the origin of AIDS are rooted in her education at the Mount (they're sure taking credit for Nobel!). FYI, those influences are alive and well at Benedictine College.
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