Thread:MatiasManteiga/@comment-34999806-20180804010852

To begin with, I think (although many people disagree with me) nature is more intelligent than humans. Nature came before us, WE belong to nature, not nature to us. And We are responsible for every negative impact.

There are many lesson from nature we can learn, it may sound strange or weird, but if we start looking with attention and patience every single detail of nature we will clearly find things or situations that at the end we say “how is it possible?” One clear example of this it could be a simple and short activy: sit down in silence at your garden and just listen; you’ll find lots of things you’ve never heard or saw before, such as the millions birds’ sounds, how insects move from one plant to another , how plants move in a certain direction because of the wind, etc. What im trying to say is that nature is full of beautiful and interesting things and because of our lack of ignorance we do not pay attention to.

I don’t exactly remember my approach towards nature when I was a child, but what I can clearly see now is that nature is not as it was before; we are having the most technological time ever. More and more cellphones are produced everyday. People want more than they have and they are always looking for the “New Fashion”, so they intend to throw old stuff that it may be still useful, but they throw it just because its “old”, so then they go and buy continously, so factories stat producing more. So is this a happy ending? The answer is no. As factories produce in excess, they basically destroy the environment to obtain as much materials as possible, so here is another example of what I said before, human ignorance. We can’t forget to mention that as long as we keep destroy the environment and polluting it, our health will become worse.

There are many ways we can help the environment and nature. One of them is recycling, and i am 100% sure that everybody knows what it is, so if every one knows what consists, then why they don’t do it? I personally believe there are no excuses for not recycling. There are lots of things than can be recycled such as plastics items, papers, boxes, broken things than can be repaired, etc. So to make it short, are most of the things that humans produce, so if we produce them , then why can we re-use it? I mostly recycle papers i used before, so then i use them as drafts for drawing and also i use packages that food comes in, such as glass jars, to keep things.

One controversial issue about pollution is who has the blame: the people or the government? Both have responsibility, but i believe individual people are more reponsible for pollution. We are the ones who do not recycle, who pollute the air overusing our cars, throw trash on the floor, etc. But also the role of the government would be to try to avoid this facts with, for example, environment campaigns , control the products are sold to the people and if they pollute, build more recycling centers, hire more cleaning staff for the streets, etc.

I personally feel that the most important issue facing the environment today, is people. We are the most harmful thing to the environment

In my community there aren’t any anti-pollution programme. I hope one day authorities planned one. But luckily at school we have projects related to the environment, for example, last year we went to the province of Cordoba and we interact 24/7 with the environment; we planted trees , recycle , etc. And also we have a subject called “Environmental Systems and Societies” where we study everything about out planet

Our local governemt lately, is trying to solve this pollution issue by designing systems to solve it, but unfortunately it is not available everywhere. It consists in offering garbage cans that divide recyclable and non-recyclable objects. But the problem is that people do not respet wether something can be recycled or not. So then, the project is useless.

Water is another important issue related to nature. Although the total amount of water in Earth won’t disappear, what we will face is a lack of fresh water if we continue in this way. There are many ways of avoiding the unnecessary use of fresh water. I personally take short showers and close the tap when im brushing my teeth or cleaning something

I consider myself as a very creative person, i always look the way to reuse something, and for example, in the case of styrofoam boxes you can paint it and use it to keep things or use it again to maintain food. And nowadays supermarkets are selling plastic bags, which i totally agree, so then people will be more conscious

To conclude, i believe that if it wasn’t for nature we couldn’t be alive, nature is our first priority. So what i would suggest is the following thing; we all have cellphones, am I right? It don’t cost us a thing to search ways to reduce the pollution of the environment, and start doing it. Its not your environment, its not my environment, its not his or her environment, its OUR environment, so lets try to “give a hand”, the change will make the difference. 