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The Author
Aidan G. Msafiri is Senior Lecturer and Head of the Philosophy and Ethics Department,
St Augustine University of Tanzania, and serves on the Advisory Board of Globethics.net
East Africa. He is the author of Towards a Credible Environmental Ethics for Africa (2007)
and Globalisation of Concern I (2008) and Globalisation of Concern II (2012), to which
this volume is yet another sequel. He publishes regularly in national and international
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Globalisation of Concern III
Essays on Climate Justice, Education,
Sustainability and Technology

Globalisation of Concern III
Essays on Climate Justice, Education,
Sustainability and Technology
Aidan G. Msafiri

Globethics.net Focus No. 32
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Series editor: Christoph Stückelberger. Founder and Executive Director of
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
1 Redefining the Ethics of Land Justice in Tanzania:
A Quest for a Paradigm Shift ............................................ 9
1.1 Abstract ......................................................................................... 9
1.2 Introduction ................................................................................. 10
1.3 The Magnitude and Manifestation of Land Injustices
in Tanzania Today ............................................................................. 13
1.4 The Way Forward: Towards a Transformative, Holistic
and Value-Creating Ethics ................................................................ 38
2 Evangelization, Cyberspace and Africa:
A Case Study of Tanzania Today .................................... 47
2.1 Introduction ................................................................................. 47
2.2 Internet and Mobile Phones: Innovative Cyberspace
Potentialities in Tanzania .................................................................. 52
2.3 Voice Telephone Subscription in Tanzania ................................. 54
2.4 Cyberspace as a Golden Opportunity for Evangelisation Today:
“Kairology” ...................................................................................... 56
2.5 Praxeology ................................................................................... 58
2.6 Riskology ..................................................................................... 64
2.7 Concluding Remarks ................................................................... 66
2.8 References ................................................................................... 67
3 Democratic and Sustainable Management
of Natural Resources in Tanzania ................................... 69
3.1 Introduction ................................................................................. 69
3.2 Aims of the Workshop/Seminar .................................................... 73
3.3 The Magnitude, Profile Types and Distribution of Natural
Resources in Tanzania ....................................................................... 75
3.2 Tanzania’s Natural Resources: Opportunities and Potentials .... 79
3.3 Natural Resources: Challenges and Bottlenecks ......................... 83
3.4 Oil and Gas Extractive Industry in Southern Tanzania ............... 89
3.5 Natural Resources in Southern Tanzania:
Criteria of Sustainable Management ................................................. 92
3.6 References ................................................................................. 100
4 Climate Justice and Sustainability:
the Tanzanian Paradigm Shift ....................................... 103
4.1 Introduction ............................................................................... 103
4.2 Climate Injustice and Vulnerability Scenarios:
Local and Global Realities .............................................................. 106
4.3 Anthropological Conditions Behind Climate Change ............... 111
4.4 Ethical Part ............................................................................... 120
4.5 Bibliography .............................................................................. 126
5 Role and Relevance of Education:
Rediscovering Wisdom, Freedom and True Humane
Service .............................................................................. 129
5.1 Introduction ............................................................................... 129
5.2 Anthropological Part ................................................................. 136
5.3 Ethical and Practical Part ........................................................ 146
5.4 References ................................................................................. 152
6 Sustainability as the Soul and DNA of Human
Resource: A Case Study of Nestlé ................................. 155
6.1 Introduction ............................................................................... 155
6.2 Redefining Value Based and Value Promoting Model Approaches
for HR Sustainability: Towards a New Discourse ........................... 160
6.3 HR Roadmap For Future Quality Assurance Tool Kit:
Key Questions .................................................................................. 170
6.4 References ................................................................................. 173
7 Sustainable Use of Natural Resources:
Gold Mining in the Lake Zone ...................................... 175
7.1 Preamble ................................................................................... 175
7.2 Empirical Part ........................................................................... 177
7.3 Analytical part ........................................................................... 180
7.4 Ethical Part ............................................................................... 188
8 Climate Change Challenges and Current Policy
Approaches in Sub-Saharan Africa .............................. 199
8.1 Preamble ................................................................................... 199
8.2 Empirical Part ........................................................................... 205
8.3 Climate Policy and Political Level Analysis .............................. 209
8.4 Which Way Forward .................................................................. 215
8.5 References ................................................................................. 218

1
REDEFINING THE ETHICS
OF LAND JUSTICE IN TANZANIA
A QUEST FOR A PARADIGM SHIFT
1.1 Abstract
The term “land” entails very broad physical, biological, economic,
human, existential and chemical realities than the mere geographical
entity or solid surface of the earth. It includes all visible and non-visible
vital life-producing and life sustaining systems of plants (soil flora),
animals (soil fauna), renewable, and non-renewable as well as life
promoting and protecting forces embedded in the entire eco-system.
They came into existence billions of years ago. Their sustainability and
efficiency depends greatly on a just relationship and management with
(“Homo Faber”) the human person as a producer who cares, protects,
sustains and plays a stewardship role with the rest of creation. From a
Tanzanian perspective in particular, these include land-injustices and
irreversible hazardous impact issues to agricultural activities,
biodiversity infrastructural development, extractive industry, water
fishing, industrial development, pastoralism, biodiversity and ecological
sustainability.
Among others, a critical post mortem of land related injustices in
Tanzania today shows that human greed, unsustainable life styles,
resource depletion and mismanagement and particularly consumerism,