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Jul 24, 2011
Marley had come to realize the virtues of deforestation in his latter years and spend significant effort promoting logging and development. This was a song written for a fund-raiser he hosted in 1967 to gain equity for the clearing of a large parcel he owned just outside of Kingston. He implied that religious people stood in the way of progress and touted the virtues of hard work to overcome the fear of nature.