Blog Session 8. How green are you?

The Environment should be protected but I’m afraid that we still doing things against it. There’re a lot of initiatives and educational programs who talk about how we can use better our energy or to save the environment, but they aren’t very effective and the costumes of people don’t change very much.

I can’t say neither that I do very much for the environment. Certainly, I know about the environmental problems that has the world and our country but in my day-to-day I don’t do special things to help to solve that problems.

I recycle in my house, principally newspapers, plastic and glass bottles and I tried to do the same when I am not in my house and I have to throw out garbage. I don’t use cars, but I don’t use bicycle neither. To go to the university or other places, I use the public transport that still polluting.

I agree the environmental cause, but I’m not part of any organization. These years I have gone to some demonstrations against energy projects like HidroAysen or thermoelectric plants, but I haven’t had major commitment.

I think that we have very important challenges to the future about this matter. In the first place, we have to do more daily thing about reducing our carbon footprint, and secondly, we have to be more active to denounce polluting practices and to call for more strict environmental policies in Chile, one of the most affected countries in the world by the global warming