05 June is World Environment Day. Much it comes every year on the measures that should be taken to reverse the global ecosystem degradation trends primarily by the actions of man. We must transform ourselves into a society to think and decide as a species and not individually.
In recent years, the star on environmental issues has been Climate Change. At least at the media, is the issue that has attracted more dedication and that is growing very rapidly palpable, and their increasingly visible consequences.
Earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, droughts, species extinction, disappearing glaciers, melting icecaps, etc. are rapidly becoming commonplace in the media, but unfortunately almost never interact with their real causes. Not many times you explain, for example, the relationship between floods and droughts, agricultural and forestry policies in the region, or the lack thereof.
Over the past three or four hundred years, humanity has devoted all its efforts to increase the production of goods, in order to satisfy the "alleged needs" of consumers, which in turn would be induced from the same advertising companies producing them.
Production volumes and consumption of goods has been growing at astronomical rates and, as it had to happen at some point overcome the planet's capacity to absorb our wastes, to eat our garbage, our CO2 breathing, our methane, our CFCs (chlorofluorocarbon, chlorofluorocarbon or chlorofluorocarbons) and drink our effluents, our spill, and vomiting of our industries.
The cup was filled and the contents began to overflow, but it seems that the tap was open so long that it is quite difficult to close. The only option we have is to try to all stop the waste, reducing the level of consumption and consume responsibly and stop the avalanche, otherwise we will cover them all, wherever we are.
But while individual consume responsibly is very important, that just is not enough. We must also act in an environmentally responsible as a society. And that change will be far more difficult to carry out the particular, as a society to abandon the culture of consumerism, would mean a paradigm shift, where values \u200b\u200bsuch as solidarity, respect for diversity and love for life, replaced by selfishness individualism and greed. We must transform ourselves into a society to think and decide as a species and not individually. In a society that abandons the current economic model, run by the owners of capital and power and those who only care is to maximize profits, and build a model environmentally sustainable and socially just. In a society that has no reason to celebrate "World Environment Day" to remember that it exists, but is developed in community with him .. Ricardo Natalichio
Source: www.ecoportal.net
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