Jessica Sánchez [September 7th, 2013]
In recent years,
environmental care has taken a leading role in all spheres of society. The
society has noticed changes in the weather, wondering the origin and possible
solutions. Thus, the human gradually understands that we are part of nature, we
are one more specie, and has endangered the very existence of humanity. Much of
the problem was caused by trying to achieve economic growth among nations
throughout history, and never realized that nature has a limit, and the pace of
life that we’ve been having could become impossible for future generations to
sustain.
The topic of climate change has great debates
and has even come to question if it is a political game to cause panic in the
population. However, we can not deny what has been done and everybody can see.
The "natural" disasters are not so natural, the human has accelerated
and altered all the processes that allow Earth to regenerate itself as it did
for millions of years. Economic growth since the Industrial Revolution would
not allow us to return to a state of metabolism like all other species, where
we only consume and discard as necessary, with the development of the human all
the elements of nature were valued economically.
Change is necessary, but it’s not about a
radical change in our habits, but only modify some actions whether they are
large or small, to allow the Earth to have a "breath”. However, for this
are necessary commitments from governments for these changes to be reflected in
policies that benefit all and gradually recover what we still have and do not
allow the destruction of the nature of which we are part.
From all levels of society, activities have
being done to reduce ecological impact compared to a few decades. It may seem
that international meetings achieve nothing, that are only political
speeches and in the end there’s nothing in practice.
We have to think it is rather difficult to
match in a single agreement all the opinions of countries involved, especially
those areas, which would have to stop their production, and apparently, it’s
economic growth. Perhaps, the actions are too slow compared to the urgency that
climate change need, but at least something is being done and more and more
population is becoming involved in taking care of the environment, as with
non-governmental organizations, which from the first meetings of Climate Change
have influenced decision making.
So, as a society
we must encourage, by any means, environmental awareness, if only by example,
and be aware of what happens in international meetings and the participation of
civil society in them. It's not complicated, it is important to express one’s
view and be involved in a situation that affects us all or that at some point
will affect us.
