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Post 7: Environmental Conflicts


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.

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  1. Unknown6 December 2018 at 09:21

    I think that this is a very hard problem nowadays. As a natural resources engineer, how will you resolve this problem?

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  2. Unknown6 December 2018 at 09:23

    Is 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

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  3. Unknown6 December 2018 at 09:25

    I really want to read your report and know your opinion about this problems when yo are finished

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    1. Bárbara13 December 2018 at 17:38

      Yo m3n, of course I will send it to you *winks*, It will be epic (I hope).

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  4. Unknown6 December 2018 at 09:40

    I would really like to read that report!

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