WHY IT’S IMPORTANT THAT WE VALUE NATURE

Corruption is a necessary evil Zimbabwean anthropologist Manage Chinese has interviewed people who live in the shadow of the law – street vendors, minibus drivers, bar owners and others working in the informal sector. All of them say corruption is morally disgusting. Yet, they bribe police officers or other government officials to make a living. "They call it a morality of survival. They say, ‘How can it be bad when it means l can send my children to school?’ Others legitimize petty corruption as less bad than ministers stealing millions from the state”, Chinese notes. Zimbabwean anthropologist Manage Chinese has interviewed people who live in the shadow of the law – street vendors, minibus drivers, bar owners and others working in the informal sector. All of them say corruption is morally disgusting. Yet, they bribe police officers or other government officials to make a living. "They call it a morality of survival. They say, ‘How can it be bad when it means l can send my children to school?’ Others legitimize petty corruption as less bad than ministers stealing millions from the state”, Chinese notes. Zimbabwean anthropologist Manase Chiwese has interviewed people who live in the shadow of the law – street vendors, minibus drivers, bar owners and others working in the informal sector. All of them say corruption is morally disgusting. Yet, they bribe police officers or other government officials to make a living. "They call it a morality of survival. They say, ‘How can it be bad when it means l can send my children to school?’ Others legitimize petty corruption as less bad than ministers stealing millions from the state”, Chinese notes.