{"id":2469,"date":"2016-10-26T14:28:26","date_gmt":"2016-10-26T18:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/nwcenter\/?post_type=questionslibrary&#038;p=2469"},"modified":"2025-02-18T14:16:35","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T22:16:35","slug":"wangaris-trees-peace-true-story-form-africa","status":"publish","type":"questionslibrary","link":"https:\/\/plato-philosophy.org\/questionslibrary\/wangaris-trees-peace-true-story-form-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Wangari\u2019s Trees of Peace: A True Story From Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Why were\u00a0all the trees in Wangari&#8217;s village cut down?<\/li>\n<li>Why do we cut down trees?<\/li>\n<li>Is it ever okay to cut down a tree?<\/li>\n<li>Who is responsible for taking care of the land?<\/li>\n<li>Who decides how the land is used?<\/li>\n<li>Why does Wangari\u00a0leave her village to study in the U.S.?\u00a0 Why can\u2019t she study in Africa?<\/li>\n<li>Why is Wangari\u00a0imprisoned for trying to protect trees?\u00a0 Isn\u2019t that a good thing?<\/li>\n<li>Are laws always just?<\/li>\n<li>Who decides who makes the laws?<\/li>\n<li>Why are only women planting trees in this book?<\/li>\n<li>Why do some people\u00a0say, \u201cWomen can\u2019t do this?\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Who decides what we can and cannot do?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><strong>Contributed by Morgan Lindberg<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":12306,"template":"","dqcategories":[373,385],"class_list":["post-2469","questionslibrary","type-questionslibrary","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","dqcategories-ethics","dqcategories-feminism"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Wangari\u2019s Trees of Peace: A True Story From Africa - PLATO<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Wangari\u2019s Trees of Peace: A True Story From Africa - PLATO\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Why were\u00a0all the trees in Wangari&#8217;s village cut down? 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