The Environment

I’m pretty away from green. I don’t have any practice that you could call “environment-friendly”. It is not really my subject, I think. But of course I try to do my part, by not throwing away my garbage on the streets, but I think that’s nothing, that’s not a real change because of two reasons: Firstly it is such a small action that do not change the wider reality (as the sociologist-to-be that I am, I don’t believe that individual actions are that important) and secondly I think that you don’t help the environment by throwing the stuff you don’t need in the garbage, you help it by recycling your garbage. And that’s the subject I prefer.

I personally don’t recycle much. I don’t know where to put my garbage in, and I don’t make the effort to know where to put it. The only things that I recycle are batteries, that’s because when I was in school, one time someone older than me gave a class about the environment and show to me and my class videos and pictures of the damages that causes one battery to the animals and to the location. But that’s the only thing that I do.

I would love to use a bike instead of public transportation, but I have bad luck with bikes, every bike that I had was stolen from me. It is just sad because it would keep me in better shape and it would be less harming to the environment, the problem is that some studies have said that people that transports their selves in bikes, across cities as polluted as Santiago put in danger their health because of the contamination.

About tree-huggers I think they are insane, because we all need wood for something, to light up fires, to build furniture, houses, and other things. I don’t believe that nature has feelings, and assume that it has I think is insane. It’s like vegetarians, I just don’t get it, I love meat and I could never give it in.