Even if you've just lost your job, there's something fundamentally churlish about blaming the very phenomenon that's elevated you above the subsistence level since the day you were born.
"If you are a subsistence farmer in Africa and you upgrade from a basic handset that does voice and text to something that allows you to connect to the internet and gives you access to the world's data, that is quite a life-changing moment and the positive side effects of all of that I think is going to be incredible," Segars said.
If you are a subsistence farmer, there is no way that you will be able to compete with your neighbor who owns one.
"Whether you're a subsistence farmer in central Africa or a major corn producer in central Illinois, you put your personal livelihood on the line every year," he said.
When you are a subsistence farmer, this practical intervention is life or death.
And, he said, people outside of Africa underestimate the difficulties posed by lions, which, he said, are "really, really difficult to live with if you're a subsistence human population that depends on livestock".
When you live a subsistence lifestyle in the bush, protection and means to acquire food is a reality -- one that we need to protect and uphold.
You got the T&S (the travel and subsistence allowances), you were paid for it so do it yourself".
"If you were a viking subsistence fisherman, on the shores of Norway in 900 AD, and Thor and his friends come down to hide the Tesseract on Earth, and you saw them, you would think they were gods.
You can borrow it from the Aina to use as you need for your families' subsistence as a steward of a balanced ecosystem.
