HOW GREEN ARE YOU?

I think that the first place where people could learn about environmentally friendly practices is at the first stage of primary school and at home, with our family; but, the second choice is difficult because recycling is a latest year’s problem; I think the most important place is the school, of course. We must know how recycling, we must learn about how long the trash would be taken to decompose itself, and other kind of these important thinks. Perhaps, at the university or in social groups, that used to discuss this points we could learn about these practices, I am no sure indeed. I think that the most important way to learn is in a self- taught way, reading about this matter, searching information, being careful with our nutrition, the products that we chose to feed ourselves, the possible solutions of the garbage that we throw away, and I think that the most important thing is our consciousness about the damage we can produce to the earth, don’t thinking that we are the owner of all.

I have incorporated many ways of recycling in my habits; for example, I don’t eat chewing gum because it has a long time to become break down, I don’t chose food with an insecure precedence, with chemical procedure or transgenic insecure origin. I don’t use more that I need in different ways, paper, water, light. I try to not use plastic think, I avoid them. I don’t have a microwave, we dry clothes at the courtyard, and I don’t open many times the refrigerator. Those kinds of little acts could help to reduce the carbon footprint too.

I don’t have a car, I prefer to walk. I have a bike too, but I don’t use it a lot.

I have never joined to any eco-organizations, because of my time, but I think that it could be important to learn more about the theme, to help to the conservation of animals, to save them of traffic, maybe.

But I think that environmentally friendly practices mustn’t be like a style, a brief thought, it must be like a cultural acts, not for humans survival, just for respect of all kind of life.

Animals as victims of human impact in nature

I think that in all over the world, the animals, insect, plants and all kind of life, the human being included, are victims of human impact of theirs buildings, cities, pollutions, garbage, industries, deforestations, and of course, our modern kind of life, the easy way to obtains thinks, to use a cup and throw away because we are not be able to clean and wash it, the indiscriminate used of plastic thinks in our life, plastic bags, plastic dishes, plastic packing, plastic people....we cannot escape at the influence of plastic and its terrible effects in the earth.  I am referring to the throw-away thinks that we use, without recyclable. I think that our unconsciousness of our acts are the motives of the problems that we have now. The huge and native ancient forest were uproot to build the comfortable wood houses, to have firewood, and the clean ground  is used to plant foreigners trees, that grow fast, trees that consume 80 litres of water at day, trees that give toxically elements for the ground, animals and people but it gives to some people a lot of many. We have the Monito del Monte, Darwin Frogs, Puma, Condor, Pudu, same kind of turtles, birds, all are endangered species. They not only are in dangerous of extinction because their natural home is being destroying, however, they are illegal hunted for fun and enjoy hunting, to have a exotic MASCOTA, or to traffic  some of their body like the elephants in Asia and Africa because of its ivory horn, or the Armadillo in the north of Chile. The excessive growing of cities, the illegal hunting, the industries and the contamination affect the wild fauna. There are some ecological groups that are helping to save some animals, they are making consciousness but it is not enough. It is task of all people. 

Music in time of chilean dictatorship

In the time of Chilean dictatorship, I think there were a lots of people, persons with a real conviction that the thinks that they were living at that time was terrible and unhappiness; there were conscious that the freedom that they have to had  before they have had lost. So, despite of that, there were enough sensible and creative to manage that mix of artistic power and theirs rage against the system and the dictatorial state that was oppress them. The music was a way to lead all those kind of sorrow and feeling in a central point: to show the people`s unhappiness and the letters of the songs said that. Some bands or singers were rigorously punished or persecuted only because they were encouraged to say things that were happening in the country. They were valiant to say they were thinking in a different way of the regimen. Exempla of this are many: Inti llimani, Victor Jara, Illapu, and others. Of course there had to go away, to find a safe place to live and make music and to survive at the fire arm; some of them, sadly, were tortured and assassinated, they didn`t escape alive. Nevertheless, the music that they give up us, has transcended and today is heard in different contexts, different people who admire them.