Knowing our environment is learning to protect it. How that knowledge is, more at the qualitative level than quantitative (how and not how much) our will depend greater or lesser capacity of understanding about their characteristics and needs. In this case, the best practice is a good theory although, in general, it will be of little use if we are not in direct contact with nature.
Ideally, that direct contact will allow us to have a experience completeapply what we know, in a practical way and without losing rigor. However, you cannot always go to action. Or quite the opposite, refrain from doing so, because in both ways it is possible to help the planet.
Yes, we can do it, apply theory and at the same time have direct contact, if we are curious with books (almost everything is in books and on the network …) and also with what surrounds us, focusing on our most immediate environment. To do so is to bet, symbolically, to save the earth. And it is that interest in what we have at the height of our senses to respect it and, even better, protect it, is the basis of change, a way of contributing your granite of sand to keep the hope of a world better.
Get closer to the most immediate environment
Knowing not just knowing. While knowledge helps us to know the ecosystem around us -whether the same balcony, the gardenthe house next to the house or the closest natural green areas, put out-, sensitize and respect more than knowledge is needed. Much more, really.
Knowing to protect means understanding that beyond becoming familiar with flora and fauna, with threats that endanger species or ecosystems, there is ethics and eco-friendly attitude that translates into environmental responsibility. It is, in reality, a matter of attitude and sensitivity, that which does not provide theoretical knowledge or the utilitarian approach, a connection with the environment that converts knowledge into care and protection.
Respect for life is something that is seen as natural, which is desired and carried out by a simple matter of justice. Far from utilitarianism, economic interestsof comforts and selfishness, taking care of the planet through the most immediate becomes an end in itself. Why do it? We owe it to the planet, our home, simply.
Respect, feel part of a whole
The most immediate environment, in effect, is a learning school to be better people, more respectful of other living beings, the Animal and plant world that lives close to us. Among many other possibilities, we can opt for in danger of extinction instead of exported plants, which demand a lot of irrigation and do not represent a refuge for the biodiversity of the area.
Help wild hedgehogs, Great night walkersto enter our garden by stirring obstacles is another possibilities. Or, of course, help control feline colonies through sterilization and food to convert a potential danger of public health into an environmental wealth.
When going to the field, it is obliged to practice respectful hiking, observe birds and other animals from distance, without disturbing them, not starting plants in general, especially if they are in danger of extinction and, in short, respect biodiversity. Likewise, these tips are applicable if we go free camping.
In addition to respecting it, it will be easy to promote it through gardening or a mini urban garden. Doing things well requires more than using products ecological and dock of pesticides and chemical fertilizers. Only when biodiversity is well known, organic farming can be done, both to turn it into our ally, because the environment will achieve a balance that will act on its own when preventing pests and obtaining a good harvest.
Solidarity and empathy
In everyday life we โโfind situations that test our critical spirit. Knowing is essential to give an opinion, no doubt, especially when we also know how to connect empathically and be supportive with abused animals and with exploited environments.
Again, we can cite many examples. The typical example of the frog that ends up open on the channel on the school laboratory table so that children learn anatomy is perfect. Knowing her in her environment would be much more sobering, that for discounted, and not only to learn about anifibians, but also to know of their importance for the ecosystem. Not using it in the laboratory is, therefore, a well -understood intelligence sign.
Incredible cases
Jane Goodall’s case is also paradigmatic. The famous primatologist That with his example now hits consciences to raise awareness about the importance of respecting wildlife, he was a great connoisseur of primates. His subsequent experience with them ended up transforming his life. Delivered to them, it is a clear demonstration that knowing them through science and coexistence is the perfect formula to get involved.
Rachel Louise Carson, precursor of environmentalism, also serves as inspiration in this regard. Knowing your biography is to understand how important the binomial of knowledge and empathy is. She felt fascination with everything related to the ocean and, although she lived in an interior area, ended up establishing himself on the coast of Maine, along with her beloved sea, a move that resulted in a huge success of her books worldwide.
They are famous cases that demonstrate the importance of being involved with the environment knowing it in full swing. The Nature It is only when it is not domestic. It is essential to know it as is, without dressings of or ngun type. Far from the zoos, from the gardens that put it in the waist, they pervert and mistreat. At this point, conservation associations are a good support point to learn and help demonstrating empathy.
Supporting them is to approach an unknown world, to different ecosystems of great wealth that are being exploited For the human being. The proximity, accessing information that the media do not usually underline, and that often even silencing, is a fundamental step to support the causes, for example against the hunting of seals or the vines, the production of pate, the deforestation, the plastic garbage that pollute the ocean, the use of animals in the circus …. and, of course, also to fight against animal abuse and death in the death.
Conclusions
Getting involved is making a difference. But for involve You have to connect with that injustice. The closeness, comes from information, from that SEmpathetic Entry that does not need words or that adhesion that causes an eloquent image, sensitizes and consciousness. The need to act will be the next big step. There are a thousand ways to help, and start is a point of no return. Our behavior changes, our mind, we are connected to the outside. Only knowledge, knowledge and feeling makes us critical spirits, free souls, and without those Ties It is easy to love neighbor, apart from its species …
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