ENVIRONMENTAL CRIME

On april 17, 2008, the biggest crime against the environment happened in Argentina. A group of harvesting field owners decided to burn weed that was useless for their business. This situation triggered 292 small fires in Buenos Aires and few towns all around the city.

According to argentinean laws, burning weed to reduced cost is a crime; in addition it brings terrible consequences to environment, especially to air. And that’s the reason why triggering fires turn into a big crime against nature. The fires extended over forest near Buenos Aires and not only destroyed kilometers of fertile soil, but also they created a big smoke cloud over Buenos Aires sky, affected health of all citizens and tourist.
Additionally, the magnitude of the tragedy brought several consequences to the ozone layer, increasing global warming and accelerating the effect of this phenomenon in Argentina.

In conclusion, I can say that the lack of consciousness about the importance of environment could become a serious problem if we don’t do anything to create a sense of responsibility with the caring of nature.

ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION IN ARGENTINA

Environmental pollution is one of the new deadly sins, and it has been violated by Argentina. According to the investigation made by argentinean government, air Pollution is increasing, and the main pollutant source are vehicles. Every day 8 million cars and a large number of buses function in Argentina, which is a big number. But this problem has a solution, if the argentinean government applies new laws to protect the rural sector from car contamination or it promotes the use of clean-vehicle technology, maybe air pollution will decrease, and Argentina will not only reduce the serious health problems that argentines are suffering, but also help in the preservation of the environment.

EVA PERON

Eva Perónn, better known as Evita, was born in poverty in 1919, in Los Toldos, Argentina. She was the second wife of Argentine President Juan Domingo Perón and the First Lady of Argentina from 1946 until her death in 1952.

She left school when she was 16 and went to Buenos Aires to pursue her dream of becoming a star, but when she met Juan Peron (the Secretary of Labour and Social Welfare at that time), she decided to star a relationship with him and helped to win popular support to become president.

Eva and Juan were married in 1945. Juan won the elections in 1946 and Evita became the Secretary of Labor, supporting higher wages and greater social welfare benefits. She increased her popularity visiting factories and hospitals, and holding meetings with those whom she was trying to help. In addition, she started a project, Eva Duarte De Peron Welfare Foundation, which distributed money, food and medicines to those most in need.

Unfortunately, she died at age of 32 from cancer, but she will always be remembered as “the most extraordinary woman Latin America has ever produced”

GLOBAL WARMING: WHAT WE CAN DO ABOUT OUR PLANET’S GREATEST THREAT

Global warming is an environmental problem that refers to the increment of the normal temperature conditions as a result of contamination and other factors like the high use of appliances and water. Although global warming has had a big impact on the planet there is still a hope, and to reach it, there should be a following by the humanity to some of the strategies that scientist developed to make its effects slow or even find a solution.

First of all, scientist began studying hoping to determine some of the minor causes of these phenomena, and so far they have been able to come up with some answers. The overuse of appliances all around the world, for example, has a heating effect on our planet’s atmosphere, thus increasing the temperature of the gases in the air. Another important cause is the greenhouse effect. This last one is the result of the accumulation of certain gases in the atmosphere, where due to their properties they keep the radiation given by the sun “locked” inside the earth, causing a significant increase in the temperature. After reviewing these causes, it was very simple to come up with different ways to slow down, or maybe in the long run even stop Global Warming. Some of the solutions include campaigns which move people to use their appliances in a moderate way, use their cars a lot less (to reduce the production of greenhouse gases), etc. Some scientists state strongly that by following these simple solutions, Global Warming can still be stopped.

On the other hand, there are scientists who state that the effects of Global Warming on our planet are unstoppable and that they are only going to take a turn for the worst. Some of their theories say that life on the planet could actually “extinguish” as a result of the changes in the atmosphere, while others state that only some animals might be able to adapt and live on the new and completely different environment.

In conclusion, by understanding the current situation of our planet, people will create a self – preserving consciousness and start taking into account all the possible preventing measures, giving the Earth a slight chance of stabilizing the temperature again, and making all the “extinction” theories a simple report inside the planet’s history