Stop to think

I think that I’m friendly with the environment but I need to be more. In general, I follow the basic steps to care the environment like those tips that they learn at school such as: don’t throw trash on the ground, use the piece of paper complete and in all its forms before throwing it, save water, etc.
I think people living in more contact with nature care much more than citizens who have to go to special places to live with it and who tend to forget that exists and we need to take care.

Many times in the name of progress, environmental abuse and misuse of resources are justified and in some cases it’s so, but time has shown that more progress is greed. Because if you can get the same energy, if we think of the power plants, this can come from toxic coal or natural gas, the difference is in the cost of building of these plants. Most power plants in Chile are of coal, with very few effective measures to combat pollution.

Thus sometimes you see that as a person you can act in one positive direction, but the interests of the companies undermine everything you can do. But it is not a reason to stay in inaction, but to be a little more thoughtful about these issues. But we need beyond that in winter problems in Santiago when we all drown because of smog. That is certainly an important issue, but it’s controlled by monetary fines, and we can’t to compare the health cost because the pollution with the monetary cost to companies.

I believe we can contribute something, be more conscious with the use of energy, water and nutrients. It may be a minor step, but if you add up the majority of the population, changes could be visible. This is doesn’t mean no use natural resources but make a sustainable use them for coming generations may also benefit.