Africa Should be a Nature and Game Preserve.

Recent debt relief for Africa now allows more lending and grants to go forward.

Paul Wolfowitz, president of the World Bank has big plans for Africa. Recently he said, " Entrepreneurs and farmers [ in Africa] could not begin to realize their potential if they lacked electricity and roads to move their products to market". For Wolfy, electricity means building dams and road-building means building industrial infrastructure.

Don't do to Africa what has been done to most of the world. There must be places that are left alone. Africa's best use and cheapest to realize is letting it be a nature and game preserve. Nature tour dollars are the least destructive on the environment. Also the" human infrastructure" of Africa is more suited to supporting tourism.

Africa's malnutrition is a sympton of the root problem of overpopulated dry-land ecosystems. Any aid to Africa from the rest of the world must be tied to population control and conservation of land.