A few months ago a fire – apparently caused – devastated “La Montañona”, a surviving nature reserve in the north of our country. Days later another fire in Morazán consumed animals, trees and hundreds of hectares of forest. As one chronicler believes, the human species has become a plague against nature. We are facing impunity for environmental crime: felling and burning of forests, as well as open dumps in streets, villages, towns and cities of the country. An environmental law is urgently needed to combat the brutal aggression against nature and health. In the rest of the world, logging and mining industrial expansion devours billions of acres of forest every day. Let’s go back to the 19th century: In 1892 woodcutters in Ohio, USA, proudly displayed the demolition of a thousand-year-old Sequoia, 1,310-year-old, 128-meter-high natural treasure! The predators had to use a 30-foot-long saw to complete the ecological crime in 8 days. According to chroniclers, the majestic sequoia tree was healthy, and may have lived for many more years. How much longer will the biosphere of our planet survive in the face of the current civilization? “Trees die standing up” says the adage, if it is not the human hand that first cuts off their greatness and majesty. <“Éxodo del Sapiens Estelar al Universo” C. Balaguer-Amazon>
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