How Green Am I?

I think about this stuff a lot, but I don’t do many thinks about it. I try to learn more about the environment and I read a lot of this stuff, especially about the pollution and the climate change. In my work I must read a lot of text about the development and the three dimension of this are: economic development, well-being and environment, so I have much information of this theme.

I’m worry about the pollution, the climate change and the consume of the resources of the earth, but I don’t participate in any group or green movement, although my sister is so green and she was participated in many activities of environment care and the rights of the animals. However, I try to don’t make much damage to the environment. I love ride in bicycle, don’t use many plastic bags or stock-market, etc. I think in Santiago must to be more recycling centers and the people must to learn much more about this stuff.

The earth is life and we are kill it today. I read an article few days ago, and in it was tell than if we continue consuming the natural resources how we do today, in the year 2030 we will need a new planet. But we don’t have another planet, so we must care the earth, because if we don’t do it, the futures generations will have a life like a shit.

Direct funding of the poor is the key to helping them deal with climate change

There is an emerging consensus that the impact of climate change will fall disproportionately on the world's poor, whose lack of resources makes them particularly vulnerable. But given the uncertainties and pitfalls of spending heavily on climate change adaptation, how to we make sure the money ends up with those on the frontline?
Cash transfers – whereby small but significant amounts of money are given directly to the poor – could be one way.
The book destroys various myths about cash transfers, the biggest being that the money makes the poor lazy, allowing them to maintain a basic subsistence level without working as hard. In fact, evidence shows that, by providing a route out of poverty, the money can encourage participation in labour markets and productive investments. Moreover, cash transfer programmes can be tailored to circumstance. Some are specifically aimed at particular groups within the poor. What's more, cash transfers can stimulate local economies, because the poor tend to buy a large amount of their products locally.Cash transfers cannot reduce vulnerability to climate change directly, and it is unlikely the poor will use them specifically to prepare for climate related events. But by putting more assets and resources in their hands the cash transfers will increase their capacity to adapt. The result will not be perfect, but it may be preferable to strategies which aim to predict climate-related phenomena. That transfers must be accompanied by parallel improvements in services such as health and education, which should be the responsibility of governments. In the long run, the poor will also need to become better informed about the threats posed by climate change. Nor will cash transfers address broader adaptation issues.

By Rachel Godfrey Wood.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/poverty-matters/2010/oct/14/climate-change-adaptation-finanace-poverty