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    "content": "which are just two years away, we target to have the deaths reduced to 30 per 1, 000 births. We cannot achieve this if the degradation of the environment continues the way it is right now. The diseases that are killing our children, for example, malaria, diarrhea and typhoid, are avoidable. If we handle our environment properly, we will make good progress in achieving these MDGs. It is not just one goal because when you reduce the child mortality rate, there is another goal that talks about combating HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases. We shall also ensure environmental sustainability. Out of the eight MDGs that we target to achieve in the 2015, we will have already sorted three or four of those goals. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I like what the Senate Minority Leader has alluded to. When we look at the environment, we should not limit this conservation to only three or four counties that the Mover has targeted. We should touch all the counties of this country so that a proper framework be put in place to ensure that the State undertakes to deliver to the citizens of this country what has been bestowed to them under Article 69. We do not have a choice. As I conclude, I want to touch on women issues because that is the constituency that I represent very ably in this House. We cannot wait and see our children dying every day as we look on helplessly. If we are ruthless with nature, it will be ruthless to us. It will not be forgiving. These things are manmade and can be avoided. The late Michuki, the former Member of Parliament for Kangema had demonstrated that it is doable. I believe that the Jubilee Government is out to prove to the world that it is doable. You have even seen the First Lady go out of her way to engage in elephant conservation. The Government should not take this issue as a hobby, but a constitutional mandate that we plan to deliver to this country. By doing so, we shall be sure that these children that we are seeing in the gallery today will have a reason to live. They should have conservation traits cultivated in them right from the beginning. Even as we look at the curriculum of schools, environmental conservation should be incorporated in the studies that they do every day. They should take it upon themselves as they grow up to know that it is not a choice. They would be doing this for themselves, their children and future generations. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, again I quote the late Wangari Maathai because I do not think we can talk about environmental conservation and not talk about her. One of the most cited quotes she uttered before she went to be with the Lord was that we owe it to ourselves and to the next generation to conserve the environment so that we can bequeath our children a sustainable world that befits all. This is the beginning. I would urge that this Senate supports this Motion with the necessary amendments. It will be passed and not opposed by anybody because it touches on every one of us. Thank you."
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