Max Pearson
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1,342 appearances
10 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 11 Apr
Max Pearson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So it basically means death.
I started hearing people saying we leave our villages and go to cities, look for jobs.
And the young people actually, even now, the majority of them have left rural areas to look for jobs, sometimes which are dangerous.
The land they were leaving behind was also suffering.
Wildlife have disappeared in many areas due to lack of vegetation.
And trees at the same time have dried up in many areas.
And then when it rains, we see a lot of floods happening.
In the following years, the extreme conditions continued and were talked about by Helen Clark from the United Nations after they launched their African Human Development Report in 2012.
What is changing is that these extremes happen more often and with greater intensity.
So we should be able to be planning resilience approaches to cope with these.
With his animals gone and his community under pressure, Dalmas knew something had to change.
So he made a decision.
He needed to help his people prepare for the future.
But he doesn't know how.
He's desperate.
He starts researching, looking for answers and reading a lot about climate change and droughts.
He decides they need to take action, becoming more resilient and self-reliant, not dependent on food relief and handouts.
He starts talking, first to elders, herders, women and young people, explaining they need to be strong economically, environmentally and culturally.
Soon he's meeting with government officials, scientists and organisations, anyone doing similar work.
We started just with meetings just to understand our own problems, just to get to know what problems do we have and what problems many communities have.
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