eco-chile

Chile it´s a country where lives a lot of people interested on the recycling subject, but there isn´t a real culture of this, in Santiago, people throw his trash to the streets, rivers and green zones like parks and squares and don´t care about it, because nobody teach them to be a clean person and that´s the base to protect the environment, be clean with it.

Also, there´s a few places to dump classified trash in order to recycle it, so it´s difficult for persons who  want to contribute to the cause, especially with technologic trash like computers, batteries.

This country needs more places to dump this kind of trash, and laws to create recycles systems in each town, and a better environment education to teach children to take care about the planet.

I have some habits to save resources, like unplug electric transformer, turn off lights and water when I don´t use them, and dump my trash in landfills, but I don´t recycle my trash, because there isn´t a place to do it near my house, also I never join or give support to a eco-organization because I don´t have the money or time to expend in it, but I know, when I finish my forestry career, I can will give my hand to protect the ecosystem with my own job.

Transgenics

A GMO or Genetic Modifie Organism it’s a life form altered by the human to make it stronger at a specifically or different pathogen or climates, in order to increases the productivity of a farm or forestry plantation making them cheaper, also can be altered the size of a vegetal, prevent seed´s expression or made another changes that may be attractive to people. This can be made by selective reproduction of the specimens with the characteristic that they want, or altering the specific genetic information. There is not problem in forestry to try both ways to get a better specimen because their uses are construction and ornamental, but transgenic food have a lot of problems, because there’s a lot of studies about disease produces by this kind of food,  most related to cancer. Some scientist defend this transgenic and have their own studies about it, but there are more proves about the disease.

As a forester, I can´t make a judgment about transgenic food, because It´s not my area of work, but I can make my opinion as a consumer: transgenics are a bad choice, even in the taste, natural vegetals are better, you can see the difference between a real fruit with strong taste and a chance to decompose and a “plastic” fruit.

Mi future as forester

I´m not very sure about what I will do once I finish forestry, now I like the laboratory work and investigation, but maybe I will work in another area of this career. But, I´m totally sure about where I like to travel and work, in Chile, must be at south because of the environment and the weather, I like both equal, mountains, dense forest with a lot of life, cold and rainy, with long nights at winter. Also I like to travel to north countries like Norway, Finland or Greenland bye the same reasons. At this day, I don´t really care about what kind of work I will do with my Forestry degree, even I don´t care about how much money I will earn with my work, just enough to survive on an single apartment because I don´t have plans to have family now, but this can change on the future, everything it´s possible.  

Pets

Hello everybody, today we have the animal´s topic, so I’m going to focus on pets and talk about my opinion about this.

Many people have pets in their houses, thinking they are good with them, but not all of this people share their time with their pets, leaving them alone grand part of the day and just feed them once a day and hopefully spend an hour playing.

A pet must been treated as an member for the family, I know people who thinks that a pet it´s equal to a salvage animal, so they leave them on the streets on their own fate, but a domestic animal have the need of human company and attention.

I have a cat and it suffer a lot when there is nobody at home, that’s why I don´t want a pet when I have my own home in the future, because I think it´s fun, a pet makes company and so, but that animal lives in a “jail” (unless you have a big house for him).

So, I prefer to live animals lives free, on their own habitat and if one of them wants to be your friend and live near of your home, it´s ok, but not force them to stay in a single place.