Our environment

A basic guide to understand the logic of everything around us.

 

    When we talk about environment, we refer everything around us, rather it, into a determined space, interacts someway in particular and connected inside a logical sequence. That is why inside the environment, every element, whether alive or             inert, has a reason to be and has a function to do.

 

Nothing is set by gamble and its unity is so delicate that if we erased it, we could break up the balance the Nature has set up, and eventually we could devastate the surrounding place. In this logic, the environment is important because it allows the support of our life plus the other alive beings’ and plants’.

 

If we dismissed some element of our environment, the process of life generation would occur with difficulty or it wouldn’t be possible.

 

    Usual issues

The environment faces problems constantly, but which way can we identify them around us? Let’s start from three key elements – water, soil, air. If we can divide each one of them and study slowly, we could differentiate the balanced from the unbalanced, and in this second point, try to detect why the things are going on wrong, and from that point, to propose solutions.

 

The key of this diagnose kind is getting to the deepest cause, and like which also holds the solution to the problem, then reversing the situation is going to be a much more natural and less radical process because we have to understand that the Nature even has its own reccuperation policies.

 

However, the human being has resulted to be the main cause of the environmental unbalances. Although some TV shows suggest that the erradication of our species is the solution to the problem, the truth is our intelligence should address us to an attitude change. If during centuries, the human being has predated, now it’s necessary to protect and in the worst case, using rationally.

 

    How to intervene the issues

The environmental issues are solved with science and commitment. The second one has to do with our education and our actual integrity. The first one implies we follow up a methodology simple to mention but complex to work.

 

1. The first phase consists in researching the most we canabout the environment, having and organizing the knowledge. It’s about to identify reliable sources and having all the information as possible.
2. Coming next, it’s necessary to share with our people (everybody as possible, indeed),  all the knowledge we have gotten and organized. The point is the people don’t turn into a silent audience of this knowledge but in an inclusive way, they figure out as the actors of itself. The information must be qualified so the next step to be successful.
3. And, finally, the next step is acting in a creative, practical, and sustainable way. That is how we give a particular aspect to our solution, allow the locals and the foreigners to be part of it, and guarantee the everything good that our generation gets, to be the most important legacy for the next ones – we generate sustainable development.

 

Although the human being, as a species, represents a tiny portion of the Earth’s biodiversity, has the chance to improve and reverse the ongoing situations like the climate change. Native civilization of the Americas coincided that the human species is not the owner of environment but a straight administrator for the next generations. The route may be found right there.

 

The associativeness

A successful and profitable strategy to care and promote the environment is the associativeness. This one consists in the unity of individuals who share one or many economic and eco-friendly activities, and who join themselves and abroad under the fair trade scheme.

 

There are two big successful associativeness experiences with organic agriculture in Piura Region – banana traders and coffee traders. Those ones have not only focused on growing and exporting coffee but they have diversified to cacao and sugar, both organic, which they are conquering so much exigent markets as the European.

 

This model is still rookie in our region, at least, but it has allowed the small agriculture to be competitive as much as the big scale’s, and it eases the scheme to be replicated everywhere. The people joining those organizations say the key, including the unity, is the permanent training, the planning, and the spirit that the benefits cover every individual involved into this model.

 

Produced by Nelson Peñaherrera. Edited by Ángel Ramos Guerrero.

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