Hello hommies,
Today, this post will be about environmental conflicts. There
is so much to explain but I will try to make it short. Today in Chile there's
one particular conflict that has become very popular -sadly- because
of the amount of pollution: Quintero-Puchuncaví's bay.
Right now I'm doing a report of it
and the scenario is impressive: first, media exaggerates the physical scenario.
There is no oil in the streets or a black giant cloud above the town (not in
the day at least). I have been in Las Ventanas twice because I have had to
interview people who live there, and the way media shows it makes such an awful
impression that the economy of the town has dropped a lot because people don’t
want to go there and get sick.
Then, there is the government: they
don’t offer a proper solution. They gave a solution once: but it only helped
industries to contaminate even more. Isn’t that stupid?
Inhabitants have normalized the
contamination so much that they don’t think that they get sick because contamination
and most of them want industries because they give work and recreational
activities. I’m working hard on this report so I can help them.
I do know other environmental conflicts: forest “El
Panul”, “Tierra amarilla”, river mouth of the Itata’s river, etc. I really hope
that the government can give them a proper solution, or they will end with the
destruction of the environment and violence between people.
I think that this is a very hard problem nowadays. As a natural resources engineer, how will you resolve this problem?
ReplyDeleteIs so sad that media always exaggerates everything, at least it helps people to be aware of what is happening, even if it is an axaggeration
ReplyDeleteI really want to read your report and know your opinion about this problems when yo are finished
ReplyDeleteYo m3n, of course I will send it to you *winks*, It will be epic (I hope).
DeleteI would really like to read that report!
ReplyDeleteI will send it to you sweetie
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