I don’t
think that I couldn’t say that I’m a green person, but at list, in my everyday
life I try to consume as little as possible. Recently I have been learning
friendly practices in my French course, because in the book that we use,
there’s a unity that talks about “les decroissants” (in French), which means
people that makes everything that is possible to consume the least possible,
they recycle, reutilize, use the bicycle, never a car, recyclable nappies for
the babies, they separate their waist to do not contaminate, and many others
things. Is more a life style that an habit. So, recently that has been an open
door to me to learn a little more of what to do. But, I think that in my family
exist (overall in my mother’s family) a conscience of do not contaminate and
hopefully, live only with the necessary. I think that I have incorporated in me
some habits like dump the paper in the trash collector and not in the WC, do
not dump waist in the streets or in a natural place and wait for a trash
collector (maybe that could be considered as conscience with the workers that
cleans, more than a green habit), I try to take a shower less than ten minutes,
I turn off the water while I clean my teeth, and others things that I consider
basic to life in a planet If we don’t want that the planet become extinct.
There are some things that stress me, because I don’t know exactly what to do
with that. Par example, since years I have a bag with a lot of batteries,
because I don’t know where to put them, for another way, Makes me sick that
other people simply don’t take importance to that and they but the batteries
with the common trash, and I had heard that batteries decomposition takes at
least thousands of years. That’s horrible! So, I will wait good information to
do something with my batteries. Regarding to my way to move by the city, I use
my legs and the public transport, the minority of times I use a car to go out
with my boyfriend or something like that. I admit that I would like get my
drive license quickly, because I think that is very utile in case of an
emergency and to make a journey out of Santiago too.
I’ve never
participated in any eco-organization, I don’t use to support them because I
think that this types of organizations use to be impolitic. I think that and in
many times the “green fight” distracts people of the real problem of society:
the inequality. And sometimes green people in more occupied in animals that in
persons, and I don’t think that this is ok.
Anyway, we
can’t deny that any development needs to be accompanied by the conscience in
nature.