Just a little bit green

Tuesday, 19 October 2010

First of all, I have to say that I do not have a green style of live. But I really think that it is a very important topic that we must, as society, develop in the next years. The environmental problems are, in the present context, very serious and urgent topic.

Anyway, my opinion about how to solve this problem about global warming or the pollution has a contradiction between two elements: the care of the environmental and the development of the technology and industrial production.

First, is very important to have a harmonic relation between the mankind and the environment. I mean, specifically, do not destroy all the nature resources, the ancient forests or biosphere reserves. The central argument is that the nature is finite, so we must think before we over-exploit the natural resources, or damage the natural habitat of some species, especially the ones that are in extinction.

But, we must give the same importance to the development of the industrial production or technology, because so many things depend on this development, for example the development of medical technology or food production.

So, the contradiction is how to reconcile the development of technology and production whit the care about the environment. I do not have the response, but I believe that the notion of sustainable development is an interesting way to achieve this balance.

Anyway, beyond these structural and political discussions we can change few things about our lives and help to the care of environment. For example, I have planned to buy bike and travel to my Faculty in this mean of transport. In the future maybe I will have a recycling ‘system’ in my home, and help to the environmental problem.

But, despite this individual acts I believe that the central problem is the environmental policies and the pollution that greatest companies in the world do. So, we must change our everyday practices but, in the same time, we have to do a political discussion and actions.

Wild Party!

Tuesday, 12 October 2010

First of all, I have to say that I'm not a guy who constantly goes to great parties or wild parties. But, anyway I have one or two stories of great parties that I remember.

One of the best parties of my live was the trip that I made to Parque Inglés the summer of 2008. Parque Inglés is a locality near to the Andes in the 7th Región, and have a nice landscape. One of the most interesting thing of Parque Inglés is that have a river, a very cold river that health any hangover.

But, this story is not about a party, in the strict sense of what means have a party, but, it was very fun and I have a great hangover the day after.

I went to Parque Inglés because my ex-girlfriend invite me whit her friends that, at the time, were my friends too. We were a group of seven people: Ignacio, Cristian, Sebatian, Pamela, Jaime, Javiera and me.

The thing is: we have many bottles of pisco and started to drink. In a moment, we were too drunk and without Coca-cola0 (necessary to make ‘piscolas’) that we started to drink pisco whit river water. It was very strong but healthy (lol). After that we started to hear a scary stories about the ‘mono-pajaro’ a strange animal that scare the campers of Parque Inglés. So, the mix between strange sounds of the forest, river water’s ‘piscolas’ and the story of ‘mono-pajaro’ had funny consequences.

Every now and then we remember that trip, and laugh of the things we made.