miércoles, 19 de mayo de 2010

LATINOAMERICA'S ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS

Despite the vast territories of dense nature in Latinoamerica, according to the ICTSD, countries such as Colombia, Brasil and Venezuela are running out of natural resources, and, worse, they're not giving them a proper use. Deforestation and water contamination and inapropriate use are some of the current problems affecting the population of the mentioned countries, whose alarming passivity toward the issue is not letting them to a positive solution.

However, not everything is that bad, huge companies like Petrobras in Brazil and Notebooks makers in COlombia are joining worldwide campaigs for protecting and preserving the environment, just to mention, joining the CONTREEBUTE campaign is almost compulsory for all the companies that use trees for making paper. As for Petrobras, they're educating the population crating conciousness regarding the importante of the natural resources such as water; moreover the Brazilian Company is reducing the amount of water in its operations and reducing the gas emissions produced withing the procesess.

The population of Latinamerica has to be aware that the climate change is produced not only by the gas emissions of the developed countries, we're guilty as well. If we don't act, we'll regret it for sure...

References
  • http://noticias.latam.msn.com/

1 comentario:

  1. I just was studying some authors that were arguing against the theory that the emmissions of CO2 (of rich and poor countries)are the main causes of global warming, the destruction of the amazonas forest and some other environmental problems. According to them, the theory of Al Gore has been a complete lie. Some scientists argue that we need more studies that determine the real cause of these changes, meanwhile there are some other problems, specially in Latin America that have to be taken into account like poverty.

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