Blog #4

Our moral obligations to take action for the future of our planet would mostly just look like not contributing to it. Most of us are not millionaires or have extreme power where we could pressure politicians or corporations to start sustainable practices. This means we cant make changes on a macro scale. Instead, we can stop our contribution to the problem, and live sustainably in our personal lives. We can make changes on a micro scale, and if enough people take part, our massive amount of micro changes will make a macro change. There isn't enough being done by world leaders. Trump still denies climate change is even a thing. He is loosening restrictions on emissions and overall pollution for huge corporations in the United States. Same with the Chinese and Indian governments. China has air they sometimes can't even breathe because of the amount of pollution in it.

SalvaNATURA is an environmental group out of El Salvador whose mission includes many aims, including implementing sustainable development policies, and protecting and conserving El Salvador's natural areas. Greenpeace El Salvador is mainly just on Facebook. It looks like they are mainly focused on recycling and people getting money for recycling.

Larsen responded to the claim that a place has agency in full support. He felt that the Cheslatta indigenous people, and they land he spent a lot of time on, to be extremely connected to his soul. He understood that Cheslatta lake meant so much to the people and that they all understood from early on, all of their ancestors came from the lake, and all of the creatures around also came from the lake. He felt that the lake was the source of life and it had a certain ancient wisdom about it. Like it had been around for a lot of time.