Do you think it will be worth it? | Let's talk a little bit about deforestation
Hello everyone!
Well, this is my first time participating in this community, so I hope to do it the right way. For this little post, I wanted to select a topic with which to let off steam, more than anything else because of our current situation that is currently being experienced regarding global warming and the constant deterioration of the planet in general.
Let's talk a little about deforestation.
The planet is a pretty big place, isn't it? There's land here and there, and an absurd amount of living things that make life here. I don't want to get into religious issues or any beliefs, so I'll just speak according to what science proposes: In the beginning, we were supposed to live according to nature and our primitive instincts, so technically we were no different from any ancestor that lived with us.
But over the course of time, human beings have become "superior" thinking beings, beings capable of detaching themselves from all those primitive thoughts and from anything that attached them to that "wild" ancestor. This, in a way, has disconnected us from nature and its basic functioning, how all living beings are in a constant struggle to survive, and how we were also part of that food chain. We have reached a point where schools have to teach us about the importance of nature and how we could not live without it...
But for what?
Since more than a century ago, in the case of Venezuela, exactly since 1870 education took shape and has become what it is today. Obviously, we are all taught the importance of nature, and I assume that since those times the same has also been taught, but all this for what?
Unfortunately, we are living in the midst of a natural crisis that will most likely have disastrous repercussions for years to come. And all this was our fault.
All these years of education, technological, cultural, personal and basically all the growth of the human race has been amazingly immeasurable, and all this to end up causing irreparable disasters to the planet we live in?
What living being destroys the home in which it lives?
The society in which we live today is built with a hierarchy, there are people who have the most power and those who are in charge of directing an entire population, and despite ALL the warnings that have emerged talking about this great problem, the vast majority of countries have turned a blind eye to the problem of deforestation and how this contributes to the destruction of our planet.
Trees, literally, are part of our source of life. Thanks to them we have the oxygen that allows us to live on this planet and they also contribute to protecting us from the sun's rays (which indirectly we also make more intense due to the destruction of the ozone layer by greenhouse gases).
Deforestation simply has a myriad of consequences that can affect us directly or indirectly: Just think of the many cases of deforestation where they destroy entire habitats of different species of animals, where do these animals migrate to? Most probably they have nowhere to go, and end up deriving in other problems such as the danger of extinction of that species. Just look at the case of polar bears, where will polar bears migrate to with the constant melting of their habitat? It is incredible to think that by cutting down a tree, you are contributing to the destruction of a polar bear's habitat, regardless of whether they are on the other side of the world.
What am I getting at with all this?
Deforestation, in my opinion, is causing a lot of havoc worldwide and there are still no strict measures or sanctions to prevent this activity. I don't see the point in encouraging the great natural crisis we are going through considering that wood itself is mostly used for decorative purposes.. lol.
The current governments are doing a mediocre job, and at least in the case of Venezuela, due to all the economic and social problems we have nowadays, deforestation and the whole world crisis nowadays is something that has not even been mentioned xd.
In your country how do they handle deforestation, have they made progress, and what do you think about the repercussions of deforestation?
Thank you very much for reading all this.
Deforestation is one of modern societies' biggest issues, although mankind has many big issues to deal with, most of which are not really being dealt with sadly.
Unfortunately, humans don't seem to have the ability to arrest the greed they feel and so keep using up the planet's resources as if they are endless. They are not, of course, endless.
It all seems to beading us to our demise, more rapidly than it needs to happen, however not enough is being done in the quantities it needs doing to get us back on track.
Thanks for joining in, I appreciate it.
Apparently, our ego also prevents us from seeing that we do not have infinite time... as if at some point the solution will magically arrive.
And as you say, this is simply leading to our imminent demise. In a way, it's a bit sad to see this picture just being 20 years old, but I also try to stay optimistic about it when I see "rays of light".
For now, we are just spectators, so we just have to see how the elite handles all this :)
And thanks to you man. Hope to be here in the next weeks too! Was pretty fun to write about this topic.
It's sad for all of us regardless of age, although the younger generation will have to see it decline ever faster I guess, I'll be dead before it all shakes out. We're moving in the wrong direction though, of that there is no doubt. People seem blind to it.
I'm glad you enjoyed writing and hope you'll find a topic to write about in coming weeks also.
Perhaps the most frightening is organized deforestation. The extent of the large scale and the cool reasons they give are aimed at reducing the attention and reaction of the masses of the population. In my country the situation is even worse. The bottomless greed of Communist officials joined hands with large industrialists, operating secretly or openly. And they paint, distort information, the situation as if it is about to bring wealth and happiness to each individual.
Pff, I forgot to mention that. Despite all the chaos caused by deforestation itself, it's amazing that governments use terms like "expansionism" as a solution to overpopulation.
I faithfully believe that education plays a too important role in this. There is too much ignorance about all this, and people don't bother to even look into the seriousness of the problem :/
It is a cultural matter, in the western world the behavior of consuming until the end is observed, without awareness of tomorrow.
But there are many regions in Africa and the eastern part of the world where the values are different. It is a relief that Westerners have not been able to fully impose their culture, or there would be no hope.
Cultures that are supposed to be primitive, understand and live, respecting the environment where they live, know that they are part of the world, not the owners of the world, as many people from the culture of the Western world arrogantly claim.
Es un asunto cultural, en el mundo occidental se tiene la conducta de consumir hasta el final, sin conciencia del mañana.
Pero hay muchas regiones de África y la parte oriental del mundo en que los valores son diferentes. Es un alivio que los occidentales no hayan podido imponer su cultura del todo, o no habría esperanza.
Culturas que se suponen primitivas, entienden y viven, respetando el medio donde vive, saben que son parte del mundo, no los dueños del mundo, como de forma arrogante se acreditan muchas de las personas de la cultura del mundo occidental.
You make a very good point there, about the issue of culture.
Consumerism is something that unfortunately we see as "normal" at this point, not long ago there was a pretty big controversy over the cosmetics market because of the origin of the vast majority of these products... to then leave in oblivion that problem.
Not long ago I read that in Europe and part of North America, it is quite common to hire people of color to make messages for birthdays. At first, it looks cute or harmless, but behind it, there is a big sadistic market that takes advantage of the "cheap labor" and also the lack of knowledge that exists in those places.
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Deforestation is one of the world's present problem. If we should clear all the trees in our planet, where else can we find accomodation?