translated from Spanish: Greta Thunberg and the Ocean March

Mr. Director:
After a 15-day march on the Atlantic Ocean, Greta Thunberg, the environmental activist, arrived in New York City.
Many marches in history have led to profound social changes. Gandhi for The Salt and Freedom of India, M. L. King for Civil Rights and The Equality of the African American People and the Feminist March in our country for non-sexist education and against gender-based violence have been examples at sea of human claims.
Today we live in times of great uncertainty where the future more than showing us prosperity and progress as in the 1960s teaches us a difficult path, which is the product of climate change and environmental degradation induced by our model of development that has ignored that there is a global balance and that nature has a limit.
Despite the pessimistic scenarios shown by science in the latest reports from the IPCC, UN and FAO regarding our climate and environmental future, I believe that it is still possible to bring about personal action, which is profound, agrees to reverse the effects of change and the deterioration of nature that we have provoked as a human species.
As young Greta Tunberg said upon her arrival In New York, “we don’t need to all march across the ocean by sailboat as an action against climate change.” We just need to get out of our comfortable terraces and move on to active action in the person and community, which can be a hope for the future for generations to come.
Dr. Marcelo D. Miranda
Associate Professor
Department of Ecosystems and Environment
Centre for Applied Ecology and Sustainability (CAPES)
Pontifical Catholic University of Chile

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