Today is a special day for bloggers like us. Today is Blog Action Day around the world through http://www.blogactionday.org/ page. This is all The bloggers write on the subject and publish the same day. We have gathered some 8000 posts in 140 different countries, of issues about politics, travel, journalism, medicine, science, culture, sports, sex, and endless more thematic. Well, today we all come together to talk about climate change.
If we do a quick review of the destinations we have chosen in our journey, you will see that all have a common factor: the negative effects of climate change. India has suffered from drought this year throughout the month of June, the strongest of the last 83 years, but that's not the worst, because all the rain that was missing was concentrated in a month in the next few days, completely inundating areas and stifle the few hopes of the peasants of the country. In Nepal, climbed Annapurna base camp and from there we saw the remains of a glacier that was huge 20 years ago and today is almost completely melted. Later we saw corn fields of the parents of the students home from school where they were dried at times and understood the meaning and importance of monsoon water in quantity and in its timeliness when arrived. In Burma, we saw about the inhumane conditions endured by victims of Cyclone Nargis, horrible scary stories that we share now. And that the cyclone was more than a year. In Panama, we have seen the terrible deforestation of the jungle man (all of us) are doing. Despite its importance to thousands of species to the man himself, the country is completely destroyed. Even in the remotest corners of the jungle we arrived, we saw the Indian cutting and spraying trees with chemicals to transport wood floating in the same rivers for drinking and living. Now we are in Chile and we have not lived in the first person anything concrete, but I've read some promising articles that speak of melting glaciers, rising sea levels and the impact is irreversible taking in the fishing industry and pollution emitted by the mining industry. From all this I am telling you we could talk for hours and give shocking facts and figures but we have reached a point where the figures no longer scare us, we know the numbers do not measure and so many horrors we see in the media than any thing is just "one more thing." How long?
We can not speak for everyone, but we can generalize about our society. We live in a world (or rather in a little bubble) that do not have time. We always go to trial. We have no time for ourselves, every day we have less room for us and it's hard to stay silent for 2 minutes reflect on what we see, read, live, etc. Moreover, we are taught to live in a highly individualistic world, the "world of self" where the most important thing in my success as an individual, my work, my mind, My House, My ipod, My favorite MI MI MI MI ... "Think of me someday planet? or as is ours and not only mine and others think?
If anything we are learning on this trip is that 6,000 million people live on the same planet we share, for better and for worse (I have given a figure and that he did not want to do!). And this is the same planet as the next generation will inherit. For the climate, there are no borders, no country or race or social status or anything. Climate change and its consequences affect us all. One of the Buddhist principles we learned in Nepal is the interdependence of things. Each of our actions, each of our words and even all our thoughts have consequences in others. As each case has many effects almost everything that happens is interconnected and dependent on other things. Our actions, thoughts, words, create an effect on others and the reactions of others have an effect on us in an endless chain where all links are interdependent. What I mean by this? For each of us must be aware of what important that we as individuals because we have tremendous power over everything that surrounds us.
From our point of view, the first and most important step for all this begins to change is that we are aware of what is happening. The next step is to act. The first step depends only on oneself. We forget at times of our day to day and find time to think and reflect about what is happening around us. It is clear that although we are bombarded with catastrophic news and endless documentaries on this subject, and for many bloggers to get together to address this issue, if not spent time thinking about all this, the situation never change. If we can be a little more aware and out of the bubble in which we live, the next step comes alone. ACT! We can act a billion different ways. For us the most important is our behavior in day to day when consuming energy resources, when to buy what they "need" to live and when recycled, and all those little things and events multiplied by all because we have brutal effects. There are thousands of organizations that inform us daily of what is happening we can make donations or volunteer work or support initiatives. Everyone should try to do what is in our hands to try to slow down a little this. Luckily there are a wide range to suit all tastes. AND YES, little to do ALL COUNTS! Well
family, friends, readers, bloggers .... I hope not to bore you with these issues. For this to be a bit of success I would appreciate you to do a comment on this post. I do not intend to open a discussion or a forum, but if you appreciate a little comment or criticism or what you may believe appropriate. Remember that is the option of making anonymous comments.
Meanwhile, I copied a quote from Robert F. Kennedy's very interesting that we think can help us to reflect: "Few will have the greatness to alter history, but each of us We can work to change a fraction of events, and the sum of all those acts will be written the history of this generation ... It is through many anonymous acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million centers of energy and care, these waves build a current that can sweep the strongest walls of oppression and resistance. "
You can also go to this post we published some time ago that you could help us reflection.
If we do a quick review of the destinations we have chosen in our journey, you will see that all have a common factor: the negative effects of climate change. India has suffered from drought this year throughout the month of June, the strongest of the last 83 years, but that's not the worst, because all the rain that was missing was concentrated in a month in the next few days, completely inundating areas and stifle the few hopes of the peasants of the country. In Nepal, climbed Annapurna base camp and from there we saw the remains of a glacier that was huge 20 years ago and today is almost completely melted. Later we saw corn fields of the parents of the students home from school where they were dried at times and understood the meaning and importance of monsoon water in quantity and in its timeliness when arrived. In Burma, we saw about the inhumane conditions endured by victims of Cyclone Nargis, horrible scary stories that we share now. And that the cyclone was more than a year. In Panama, we have seen the terrible deforestation of the jungle man (all of us) are doing. Despite its importance to thousands of species to the man himself, the country is completely destroyed. Even in the remotest corners of the jungle we arrived, we saw the Indian cutting and spraying trees with chemicals to transport wood floating in the same rivers for drinking and living. Now we are in Chile and we have not lived in the first person anything concrete, but I've read some promising articles that speak of melting glaciers, rising sea levels and the impact is irreversible taking in the fishing industry and pollution emitted by the mining industry. From all this I am telling you we could talk for hours and give shocking facts and figures but we have reached a point where the figures no longer scare us, we know the numbers do not measure and so many horrors we see in the media than any thing is just "one more thing." How long?
We can not speak for everyone, but we can generalize about our society. We live in a world (or rather in a little bubble) that do not have time. We always go to trial. We have no time for ourselves, every day we have less room for us and it's hard to stay silent for 2 minutes reflect on what we see, read, live, etc. Moreover, we are taught to live in a highly individualistic world, the "world of self" where the most important thing in my success as an individual, my work, my mind, My House, My ipod, My favorite MI MI MI MI ... "Think of me someday planet? or as is ours and not only mine and others think?
If anything we are learning on this trip is that 6,000 million people live on the same planet we share, for better and for worse (I have given a figure and that he did not want to do!). And this is the same planet as the next generation will inherit. For the climate, there are no borders, no country or race or social status or anything. Climate change and its consequences affect us all. One of the Buddhist principles we learned in Nepal is the interdependence of things. Each of our actions, each of our words and even all our thoughts have consequences in others. As each case has many effects almost everything that happens is interconnected and dependent on other things. Our actions, thoughts, words, create an effect on others and the reactions of others have an effect on us in an endless chain where all links are interdependent. What I mean by this? For each of us must be aware of what important that we as individuals because we have tremendous power over everything that surrounds us.
From our point of view, the first and most important step for all this begins to change is that we are aware of what is happening. The next step is to act. The first step depends only on oneself. We forget at times of our day to day and find time to think and reflect about what is happening around us. It is clear that although we are bombarded with catastrophic news and endless documentaries on this subject, and for many bloggers to get together to address this issue, if not spent time thinking about all this, the situation never change. If we can be a little more aware and out of the bubble in which we live, the next step comes alone. ACT! We can act a billion different ways. For us the most important is our behavior in day to day when consuming energy resources, when to buy what they "need" to live and when recycled, and all those little things and events multiplied by all because we have brutal effects. There are thousands of organizations that inform us daily of what is happening we can make donations or volunteer work or support initiatives. Everyone should try to do what is in our hands to try to slow down a little this. Luckily there are a wide range to suit all tastes. AND YES, little to do ALL COUNTS! Well
family, friends, readers, bloggers .... I hope not to bore you with these issues. For this to be a bit of success I would appreciate you to do a comment on this post. I do not intend to open a discussion or a forum, but if you appreciate a little comment or criticism or what you may believe appropriate. Remember that is the option of making anonymous comments.
Meanwhile, I copied a quote from Robert F. Kennedy's very interesting that we think can help us to reflect: "Few will have the greatness to alter history, but each of us We can work to change a fraction of events, and the sum of all those acts will be written the history of this generation ... It is through many anonymous acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million centers of energy and care, these waves build a current that can sweep the strongest walls of oppression and resistance. "
You can also go to this post we published some time ago that you could help us reflection.
Thank you all for reading and encourage you with these comments! Besos
very strong Chilean land! Uschi and Robert
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