Month: August 2018

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4 reasons for not having a place to live

The thirtieth:
Time to remember

Article published in September 2015

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Reduction of areas occupied by forests
Increase of areas occupied by cities
Increase of areas occupied by agriculture
Increase of areas facing climate change problems

Due to these factors, who remains without a place to dwell and live are wild animals and plants.

With nowadays population and economic growth, where once forests flourished, cities are being built. To feed its new inhabitants, more and more agriculture fields are necessary.

With less forest area, and more CO2 emission, many areas around the globe experience temperature raise. As a consequence, the melting of icecaps occurs, which is home for the polar bear, for example. His existence remains therefore threatened.

In short, animals that used to live in their natural habitat are forced to escape and live an unprotected and fragile existence, exposed to illnesses and hunger. Not finding a place to live, they risk death and extinction.

Think big. Help to break this cycle and create new forests, urban or rural ones. Start planting a tree and taking care of it. With this action, a small portion of our planet will improve: as an immediate result, there will be a new home for birds, more thermal stability and better quality air.

“I put down a tree because...

It was a hassle to prune the tree, and I had no time to do it

This statement let us face two crucial factors in our lives:

  • Work to be done
  • Time administration

It is not these texts objective to pass some morality lesson or to teach the reader how to manage his time. Everybody should know that to accomplish a job, or to make some effort happen, like bringing garbage outside or feeding a pet, will depend on everyone’s good will.

Wise time administration is also a personal challenge. Each person should know what is important to do over a day or a week, and what the priorities are.

As said before, the objective of these texts is to propose realistic alternatives to avoid the unnecessary slaughter of trees in urban environments. Trees are Oxygen Producing Units (OPU), a highly valuable article among all of those that fill the urban space.

Pruning has been recommended several times in previous texts as an alternative to putting down trees. Now we analyze the alleged lack of time and drive to prune them. Obviously these are real factors: a person, exhausted by her job, trying to make ends meet, would have neither time nor energy to accomplish a gardening task.

A simple solution would be to hire and pay a gardener. A more evolved concept would be the organization of tree protection societies, promoting free of charge pruning by volunteer work. Another concept, utopic nowadays, but feasible tomorrow, would be the accomplishment of this task by conscious municipalities.