The ecological employments, an useful proposal for the Copenhagen’s Summit

The mankind has not options. If this generation does not adopt the measures for preserving the environment in too few years the majority of the world will be a desert. The climate change, the garbage, the destruction of the water sources, the industrial pollution, is a true threat for the present and the future.
In Copenhagen still there is a hope. The development of a Global Program of Ecological Employments, through the reforestation, is an effective road for diminishing the global warming, protecting the nature and to attack the poverty.
Sponsored by the United Nations and the World Bank, and with the cooperation of the governments worldwide, this program might be a hope for millions of people in the entire planet. The decision is in the hands of the leaders that in this moment are in Copenhagen. God bless the world.

Difference between underdevelopment and poverty, how the mass media can promote the development

This is a common scene in the undeveloped countries. You can observe the different kind of cars; it reveals that that is not a poor community.

The poverty is the material scarcity; essentially, the lack of money, infrastructure, employment and natural resources.

The underdevelopment is other thing. The underdevelopment is the lack of basic education, but not of scholarly or academic education, no. It is the absence of the education that come from the family, the moral and the religion; the ignorance of the basic norms of life.

The development is an attitude toward the life. A poor nation is not necessarily an undeveloped nation. The poverty does not mean underdevelopment. There are poor but developed nations. In change, there are rich ---in terms of money-- but undeveloped countries. The difference between both is the concepts previously expressed.

In all the nations coexists developed and undeveloped sectors of the population. But in the undeveloped countries the last one is the majority. I would like to illustrate with some concrete examples the difference between one and other.

The main characteristic of the undeveloped societies is the ignorance or disdain for the basic rules of life.

For example, they do not respect the environment. It is common to see how the people walk and lead its dogs by the streets without chains, muzzles and the worse is that they do not pick up the excrement of its pets. You can appreciate this type of situations in many streets in many undeveloped nations.

Neither, they do not know or do not respect the essentials norms of health. It is also often to observe how the people sneeze or cough and do not cover its mouth; spite in any place; do not wash its hands with regularity, do not maintain the restrooms clean and do not follow the rules of food hygiene. The consequence is a high level o infectious illness.

The aggression to the environment is ever present. For example, in the undeveloped societies the peasants cut down the trees and burn the agricultural lands because they think that in this form they can obtain best harvests. The outcome is the contrary.

In the cities the controls regarding the autos and trucks contamination are very weak and the authorities do not make serious efforts to impose it.

The garbage is the other great problem. Usually you can appreciate it in the streets because the people throw the waste and, moreover, the systems of recollection are not effective. The garbage is not selected in plastics, glass or organic.

The industries throw their pollutants to the atmosphere or direct to the rivers, lakes and seas.

The deforestation is something ordinary and the people cut the trees without restrictions.

These situations happen exclusively not only in the undeveloped nations. Some of them also occur in the developed countries. For example, the industrial countries are the main generators of the dioxide of carbon emissions, principal cause of the climatic change. Other nations as China have the world record of the waters contamination.

The concepts previously mentioned reveals two aspects:

a) That the underdevelopment is not only an economic problem but essentially a cultural and educative challenge.

b) That for tackle the underdevelopment problem it is necessary to carry out a deep process of change in some negative custom that survive in the countries population. The mass media, and especially the radio and television, are the adequate channels for reaching the objectives of the development. They may be used for promoting a new culture of respect to the environment and in the promotion of habits of health, among other priorities. This is a form of creating a best world.

The responsibility in the creation of this kind of projects is essentially of the international agencies of development, as United Nations and the World Bank. Of course the governments of the countries has too a responsibility but it is necessary that an international institution assume the responsibility of coordinating the initiative.

In the next article I will explain what type of campaigns might be realized through the world mass media for promoting the development, protect the environment and create new habits of health.

The Ban Ki Moon and Robert Zoellick main challenges are combating the world poverty and preserving the environment

They are the leaders of the two most important political and development institutions, United Nations and the World Bank. And the mission of both is helping to build a best World.

The poverty and the destruction of the environment are the two great threats for the humanity.

I think that there is an effective form for helping the world to diminish the poverty and advancing in the preservation of the environment. The creation of a Global Program of Ecological Employments is a way. The first activity of that initiative should be to create a Global Program of Reforestation.

Which will be the benefits?

a) The creation of millions of new ecological employments that will help to millions of poor people worldwide and

b) The conservation of the environment, because of the positive effects of the reforestation on the climate change.

There are other alternatives for creating jobs. But the majority of them require a great amount of energy use, petroleum and/or coal. The effects of the use of fossil energy are well known.

In change, the reforestation does not need to employ great amounts of energy sources to be developed; that is one of its great advantages.

The reforestation is an efficient ecological way for combating the poverty and preserving the planet.

In the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference in December 2009, Mr. Ban Ki Moon and Mr. Robert Zoellick, have the possibility of developing concretes actions for helping the humanity. The Global Program of Reforestation is one opportunity for the world.

While millions suffer hunger other spend trillions in weapons and luxury

Dr. Josette Sheeran, Executive Director of the United Nations Food Program, has announced that the Agency has only one third of the resources that need for attending 108 millions of persons this year worldwide.
This means that millions of people will not have the minimum food for surviving. While this happen, the world spend trillions of dollars in weapons and luxury.
The problem of hunger is a shame for the humanity. All the citizens of the world have the right of receiving the necessary food for living. The governments have the main responsibility in the creation of the economic conditions: jobs and income for the population.
Dr. Sheeran said that the Food Program needs only $ 6.7 billion for the next year. This amount is something insignificant compared with the money used for saving the banks during the recent financial crisis.
The world leaders should reflect on this theme. Only it is necessary to make a review of the priorities. The peace and the human beings welfare deserve more attention than the war and the tastes, the preferences, of rich bankers.
I read recently that as a consequence of the financial crisis of the UN Food Program, only in Guatemala 100,000 children will not receive the food help. The figures in other countries as Bangladesh are unbelievable: 5 millions of affected people.
The food production is a priority. And this means that it is necessary to adopt measures to guarantee the environment protection. At the rhythm of pollution followed until now, in too few years the planet will confront serious problems for providing the food that the global population will need.
The scarcity and the lack of water is one of the principal threats. And one of the causes of this phenomenon is the climate change.
In Copenhagen, in December, the world leaders have the opportunity of to adopt the necessary policies to preserve the nature and the life of millions of persons.

United Nations should develop a global campaign of reforestation

That is the unique way to save the live in the planet. The figures on the destruction caused by human action are simply unbelievable. Disappeared and threatened species, water pollution, desertification, air contamination, overexploitation of the seas, rivers and lakes, atomic tests, are clear signs that the planet will not resist those abuses for much time more.
The leaders of the world have the duty of to adopt today the measures for avoiding the total destruction of the environment and the live. The United Nations should develop a global and strong campaign for the conservation and reforestation of the forests.
The forests that still survive ---and specially the Amazon Region--- are the last opportunity of the planet. The importance of the forests reserves as the Amazonia is something vital for the world. A similar natural reserve already does not exist in the planet. Man has destroyed the most forest reserves of the world in all the continents.
The forests are a source of water, oxygen and a natural form to combat the global warming.
For the United Nations this campaign would be other opportunity of to do something concrete to benefit the humanity.
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