ecology and environmental awareness

ECOLOGY, AND ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS:

As we all know, the world is facing the hardest problem ever for the humanity: the climate change. Climate change is a real problem (even though there are still people who think it’s just some lies from the ‘’eco-friendly ones’’). We need to do something before it’s to late, before there’s a flood.

Without our mobilitation, no change will be possible. The Earth as we know it, it’s dying. We aren’t noticing that, and that’d be our death too. That’s why activism, ecology and environmental awareness are so important.

The middle-class citizen is not at all informed of the situation and, moreover, it sees it as something unreal or distant to its reality. Climate change is happening faster than anyone, any scientist, aware us about.

I want to talk about this amazing paiting by Bosco so i can make you understand the situation in a better way: in the first panel we have Adan and Eva in the garden of Eden, some birds fly by and there’s a calm atmosphere. In the second one we can see an overpopulation, there’s no control, it seems not to be room for anyone else, i percibe it as a wildness world. The last panel it’s this twisted, decaded and burnt landscape, a paradise that has been destroyed.

I place ourselves in the second one, where it all is a mess. We need to consider this a big problem if we want to solve it now. As a human being, i’m truthly sorry for us, because we’re dumb and we can’t see what’s in front of us. We are destroying the Earth, we need to do something.

I feel anger talking about how many animal species have just dissapeared because of humans, they would just colonize their ecosystem and they would simply dissapear. The dodo, the passenger pidgeon, the tasmanian tiger, the quagga, the moa… The difference here is that we know what we’re doing now, we are conscious about it. We’re killing animal species in a bigger way.

Because of our need to get fosil energy, which our economy is based on, we’re poisoning rivers and destroying forests just to get energy and put it on fuel tanks, to get natural gas, petroleum and coal.

Our cars, planes, trains, the way we produce food, the way we build our cities, nearly everything we do, liberates CO2 and other gases, and this increases the climate change. the polar ice caps melt, the sea level begins to rise, and there will be more severe weather patterns, floods, hurricanes, droughts and uncontrolled fires.

The fact is that we have known about this problem for decades now. I imagine the world if we had taken seriously the problem back then.

In the universe, the earth it’s just a small bottle which is sinking, and we’ll all sink together. What’s going on? What can we do? Well, let’s see:

       -  Speak up!

The first tool we have to change the world is information: “Talk to your friends and family”. By voicing your concerns—via social media, for example—you send a message that you care about the warming world. Make the world know what’s going on.

-  Reduce water waste.

Saving water reduces carbon pollution, too. That's because it takes a lot of energy to pump, heat, and treat your water. So take shorter showers, turn off the tap while brushing your teeth.

-  Limitate your palm oil consume:

Palm oil is in nearly everything web uy, it’s bad for heath and to produce it, people cut down a lot of forests, killing animals and plants that can help us with the CO2 production. As you already know, plants use CO2 in their breathing so, as more plants there are, less CO2 and pollution will be in the atmosphere.

- GO VEGAN

If you really want to change something, you should stop eating meat, fish and animal products. Cows, as a example, produce methane while they eat, each molecule of methane is equal to 23 molecules of CO2 in the atmosphere. To produce what animals eat, we use 43% of the total land, and we only eat 1% of that. What people spend making a Burger is equal to 200 hours of a lightbulb use or 24 hours of a window air conditioner. Stop killing animals for nothing. There are solutions, we just don’t see them. With the land available once we had stop killing animals needlessly, we could stop the hungry in the world 14 times. Numbers that really scare me. Remember you’re not a lion, you don’t eat meat to survive anymore.

 These are just small changes, but the biggest one is to get information about what is going on, do not let the media control you. Think of yourself. If you do not want your future children or loved ones to see the world as the last pannel of Bosco's painting, you better start to do something.

The fact is that we are not really affected, what would happen to India, where they don’t even have electricity yet? Or Africa? They would not get bigger as a country, we'll stop their process completely. The same happens to pacific islands, if there is a rising sea level, they will disappear. And this is what we have done, it's Europe's, and the United States' fault, with so many others. We have destroyed the planet and also cultures who were getting bigger, now they're not. These ideas to stop the climate change I've put in here are just small things to do in here, but we have not even stop to think about Africa, India, China or pacifics islands.

As a normal citizen, we can not do much. We need to wait for the leaders of all countries to meet with each other and take some laws to follow, to not loose life as we know it.