2023-08-31 03:30:00
Every year, from September 1 to 30, the Clean Up the World campaign is held to inspire and empower communities to «clean, repair, decontaminate and preserve the environment» through the implementation of different initiatives.
One of them -perhaps the most relevant due to its importance and significance-, following how and with what excess we have dirty and polluted our world, seems fundamental implement from childhood a thorough environmental education on decontaminating, cleaning and conserving it, only for fair and reasonable uses and usufructs of its resources, but without abusing them.
Environmental education is transversal and subsidiary to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals, Agenda 2030′ proposed by the United Nations.
“To Clean Up the World” arose from a sensitive and visionary idea from the port of Sydney, precisely from the success of “Clean Up Australia” in 1989, when Australian yachtsman Ian Kiernan convinced a group of friends and supporters to clean up Sydney Harborshowing the effects of pollution and other disorders in the world’s oceans.
The event was a success, attracting thousands of volunteers from different countries, who already 34 years ago, collected 5,000 tons of all kinds and kinds of polluting garbage. Since 1993, with the support of the United Nations World Environment Program (UNEP), the campaign has gained global reach.
Multiple environmental challenges -omnipresent and urgent of different magnitudes-, complementarily compromise Civil Society (NGOs, schools, school cooperatives, cooperative ecological responsibilities and culture; neighborhood centers, community integration, neighborhood clubs, etc.), offering them opportunities for growth, strengthening, responsibility as well as their own justification and authority.
Concomitantly, to preserve a healthy environment in the face of rare meteorological phenomena; more violent and harmful, the recovery and sanitation of the environment as a robust ecological balance, make the new name of life and peace, because there will be no life, development or human rights without the basic conditions for it.
By the way, we have been becoming aware, realizing, for example, that a prolonged and prevailing fossil combustion, or how much circularly non-recyclable waste (“from waste to resources”); they are no longer a sign of progress but a way to destroy the planet.
Indeed, in the face of an unprecedented global climate crisis, caused by greed, consumerism, human mistakes and blunders, it seems appropriate to promote and encourage an active and deep comprehensive ecological awareness to decontaminate and clean our world through vg, an urgent cultural reconversion, a massive and immediate use of sustainable clean energy (eg, solar, wind, hydraulic), and intelligent and co-responsible uses and consumption.
Finally, just as at a human level, Pope Paul VI with his encyclical letter “Populorum progressio” (1967), then warned the world that Development was the new name for peace; the current Pontiff Francisco from Laudato si´ (2015) proposing an integral ecology and agroecology for food sovereignty, strives to arouse cultural behaviors for peace through appropriate and timely care of the common home.
* Expert in Cooperatives from Coneau.
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