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Peace and restoration of the environment.
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In this time of ongoing global conflicts and environmental crises, we believe that the revolution we aspire to should center around peace and the restoration of the environment.
130 years after the Gobu revolt led by Jeon Bong Jun and Kim Gaenam, having arrived after tireless struggles of peasants, workers, intellectuals, to our comfortable democratic societies, the question we must ask ourselves is: are the problems that generated the classic revolutions already solved?
Each era of humanity was, and is marked, by some problems that are repeated throughout History and others that are particularities of the time. From the first migrations from Africa to the rest of the planet, to our era of scientific and technical development, which brought well-being but also weapons of mass destruction and environmental pollution.
The worst conflagrations and catastrophes of war or even natural nature are usually followed by generations more conscious of peace and solidarity.
Immediately after the war, even the winning side, given the “pyrrhic” nature of any martial victory, comes to the conclusion that a world in peace is the only way to understand the future. Generally, after a second generation, the conviction in peace remains healthy, a third generation begins to move away and ignore the value of what was obtained, and in the next generation an indomitable characteristic trait of the human species emerges, autophagy. The destruction of our own work
In this instance, frequent phrases begin to be said such as “with peace you don't eat”, “with democracy you don't live” and others like that, although these are not immediately accompanied by a drive for conflict, it do fertilize the ground for any spark, however minimal, to trigger again, the point of the vicious circle to which so many people, swore never to return.
Let's see what four famous figures thought about the war:
Already since the 5th century BC. Sun Tzu, who was a strategist before a tactician, said: “Complete victory occurs when the army does not fight, the city is not besieged, the destruction does not continue for a long time and, in each case, the enemy is defeated by the use of strategy”.
For Kant, nature uses war for the evolution and progress of humanity, but at the same time the imperative of reason rejects such degradation of man: war threatens the freedom and dignity of men.
Tolstoy in War and Peace about the Napoleonic French invasion of Russia wrote: "War is something so terrible that no man, especially a Christian, has the right to take responsibility for starting it."
Carl Von Clausewitz mentions that war is not an isolated act, it responds to political or economic objectives, to the character of the intervening nations.
Althoug, it is true that the repetition of this cycle can be observed throughout history in a natural way, it is also true that marked economic and power interests, participating in it, perpetuate it. It is striking that we are capable as a species of eradicating diseases and overcoming all kinds of evils through experience, lesson, empirical knowledge, science and effort and yet the cyclical reappearance of the drive to exterminate the opponent, as means of overcoming differences, remaining perpetual, unscathed-
Armed conflicts of the most diverse nature surround us everywhere today, always with the same common denominator: pain, extreme suffering, death and destruction for the most humble human beings. Along with the war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine, there are currently large-scale armed conflicts in Burkina Faso, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen, Myanmar, Nigeria and Syria.
Although the rest of the inhabitants of the planet live in peace, if we are contemporary with wars that stretch beyond what is acceptable, it is a conditional peace, held with pins, with borders that are harshly guarded, paranoid, threatened by very real ghosts.
¿But can we really say that we live in peace while thousands of human beings, identical in chromosomes to us, are cut to death while we eat our breakfast? Doubly no. Firstly, because the Earth is our home, there are no borders for the air we breathe, nor passport for the tomatoes we eat, in the same way any other human being is ourselves. The pain of innocent people suffering and perishing is also our pain. The resonances of that war will reach us in one way or another, it will come as gratitude or as reproach.
And secondly, because it is a deception that we are not participating in these conflicts, all the effort of work contributed in taxes, in capital gains, is involved in the disproportionate amounts of weapons to favor one or another interest of our governments, managed by the immense arms industry, in those certain wars, with purposes never fully declared or clarified.
Hence, our duty to embody the sentence: “one day they came for the reds and since I am not red I did nothing, another day they came for the blacks and since I am not black I did nothing, and when they came for me, since the others are not me, no one did anything” and to begin precisely by moving to do something. After the 20th century with its numerous and deadly wars that left an huge crater of desolation and a deep reflection on the construction of the world, we believed it was impossible to revive the lowest human instincts guided by greed, power, hatred and manipulation. of beliefs. There is no better life than that which comes from the exercise of good, nor better action than the one that helps others.
The work of raising awareness about the need for peace, as a way of life regardless of the problems posed by development, or precisely including it in its roadmap, must occur in all areas of education, teaching, family, work, community. We must be aware and make it clear that whatever the problem that reality presents us, solving it by eradicating the interlocutor will only increase and dilate it to a much greater magnitude. Eating the cannibal, in addition to being unseemly, is the least effective way to end cannibalism.
The aspiration to advance towards peace as a sustained and sustainable way of life, and not only as a period, an interval, or a stage, must be based on consciousness that starts from the individual to the general, the knowledge of the mechanisms that lead us to violence. Demand and pressure, through democratic participation, that our governments establish and comply with policies of coexistence, human rights, education in values at school age, the eradication of aggressive speech and a drastic reduction of the arms industry.
I think it is important to highlight and thank the exemplary effort that Korea has made and is making for peace.
The goal of violent confrontation is Victory; while the objective of the discussion with arguments is Progress.
Ecology
Parallel to the pacifist awareness, a justified concern for ecology has been increasing. The environmental movement emerged between the sixties and seventies in the West, from the social denunciation of the domination of nature for development purposes. The environmental movement has three main roots: conservation and regeneration of natural resources, preservation of wildlife, and the movement to reduce pollution and improve urban life.
The word ecology was coined in 1866 by the German scientist Ernst Haeckel. The science of ecology as we know it today began with a group of American botanists in the 1890s. Evolutionary concepts relating to adaptation and natural selection are cornerstones of modern ecological theory.
In 1941, the American ecologist and forester, Aldo Leopold, wrote Almanac of Sandy County, a combination of natural history, scene painting with words, and philosophy. It is perhaps best known for the following quote, which defines his land ethic: "A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community.
At the beginning it was the affair of a small minority that the majority, even the well-intentioned ones, dismissed as eccentric. Left-wing parties and sectors defending the basic rights of humanity joked about the activists who boarded small boats and harassed large factory ships in defense of the whales, or those who went to the Brazilian Mato Grosso to demand the protection of one of the lungs of the planet, denouncing its deforestation.
In the sixties, several movements converged with certain aspects of environmentalism such as anti-consumerism, harmony with nature, which largely led to knowledge of the more ecological aspects of Hinduism and Buddhism, although it was more taken as an attitude, a matter of pose, was much more than a simple fashion, even today there are communities founded by hippies who live off what nature provides them.
But the social situation and the worsening of the world made the problem go much further than a position of resistance to consumption and industrial development
At this point I would like to say that it is curious, and not a little sarcastic, that today the descendants of those who caused the most damage to the environment in the world are the ones who teach how to take care of the forests and jungles, when there are, for example, the Yanomani of the Amazon. , who could better explain, empirically, how to coexist for centuries with the plant and animal environment.
Little by little, the consciousness born from the objective observation of the consequences of hyperconsumption, hyperdevelopment, oil exploitation, the growth of industry and urban centers, was finding paths that coincided with the objectives of the social revolutions, while Also environmentalism, the concern for the planet in the most tangible aspects integrated the quality of life of the workers, and the problem of poverty in all its degrees and the hunger produced by the speculation of food accumulation, but also deforestation. that cause the expansion of large conglomerates.
Poverty is a factor that triggers most environmental problems and is also present in many conflagrations. Poor populations impact the environment when they prey on the environment in search of resources to survive.
Impoverished populations need ecosystem services, which is why impoverishing dynamics are usually generated through the inadequate and disproportionate exploitation of natural resources, such as water, soil, fauna and vegetation.
Climate change: the most urgent problem facing humanity
It is a consequence of toxic gas emissions that began with the Industrial Revolution and has worsened decade after decade with the establishment of new industries.
Toxic gases produced by excessive global industrialization accumulate in the atmosphere, causing damage to the land, air and water. Climate change is not only an environmental problem, it is a social and economic problem that affects or will affect at some point everyone in the world.
The seas have become the planet's great plastic dumps. In addition, there are other serious environmental problems related to the oceans such as the deterioration of ecosystems due to global warming, polluting discharges, wastewater and fuel spills.
8% of known animal species have already disappeared, while 22% are in danger of extinction due, above all, to the destruction of their natural habitats, poaching and the introduction of invasive species.
The growth of cities, which will have to house some 5 billion people in 2030, will be another of the great environmental challenges of the decade. The metropolises of the future will have to be compact, safe, inclusive, ecological and energy efficient, with more green areas.
Many diseases, such as cholera, hepatitis A and dysentery, are spread by drinking contaminated water.
Many hundreds of people die annually from unsafe water, the highest percentage being children under five years of age. The situation is global, but especially serious in low-income populations and with deficiencies in water services.
Forests are a natural help against climate change, since they can reduce global warming. The disappearance of tree species is increasing. It is said that more than 20% of plant species are on the verge of extinction.
Solid and liquid waste is discharged directly into the environment, mainly in water and soil. The absence of efficient waste treatment accelerates the short-term consequences.
Emissions from vehicles, including private cars, public and commercial transportation, planes, trains and ships, contribute it corresponds to 30% of the responsibility for climate change, since this type of pollution is considered one of the most powerful causes of the greenhouse effect.
Inadequate management of toxic waste and its impact on the environment Toxic waste is a global problem, in one way or another it affects water and soil.
As the adult fish population has declined, companies have ventured deeper into the ocean. There has also been a decline in the capture of young species of reproductive age or with a low population of specimens, threatening the survival of the species.
Environmental awareness derives from knowledge of our environment. A person aware of their interaction with nature understands the importance of acting in an integral and rational manner regarding their natural environment.
School and social environmental education programs play a fundamental role in the development of environmental awareness. It is not enough to make laws and regulations, it is essential to teach children and adults the impact of their actions in the short, medium and long term.
The causes of the lack of environmental awareness are the ineffectiveness of the transmission of relevant information, the sensationalism given to these issues, the lack of commitment of governments to raise awareness, the low levels of education and technological poverty.
There are individual measures that we can consider, for example: Acquire recyclable packaging.
Save electric energy.
Use less automobile transportation, bicycles are an alternative.
Avoid the use of plastic bags.
At a collective level we can assume these commitments: Spread the ecological message to raise environmental awareness.
Take action against deforestation.
Reduce gas emissions, inorganic waste and toxic waste.
Encourage reforestation.
Have we achieved a universal quality of life worldwide in the 21st century that makes it reasonable to abandon the classic objectives of revolutionary struggles? No, not at all, although the progress in rights and the achievement of high standards of living in a part of the world's population is evident. There is still misery, hunger and pain in the world, to consider it a finished matter. But we have so many priorities, without peace or a decent planet, no other problem can be solved, simply because we will become extinct.
Today the need for a revolution for peace and ecology is imposed as a priority. In which we play a fundamental role through our own contributions, through our position towards the powers in a vehement or assertive manner as the case requires. For which the formation of a solid individual and collective conscience is essential, in which each and every one of us is the protagonist.
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