Diego Alejandro Albarracin Soto

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June 29 th 2020

Antonio Guterres
Secretary-General
United Nations
405 East 42nd Street
New York, NY, 10017, USA

Dear [Recipient]:
Currently the world has very serious problems that put at risk the survival of nature, animals and
humans. The most recent studies show that the main cause of this nature deterioration is the
pollution generated by cars with combustion engines, industries, factories, disproportionate
exploitation of natural resources and deforestation. I note with concern that people and companies
have done nothing to better the pollutant emissions generated by human and industries worldwide
activities. Every day the companies produce and sell more cars, airplanes, computers, Tv´s, fridges,
even clothes but the damage to the environment reflected in the tragedies that we now see daily
everywhere.

According to the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, the world population
was estimated to have reached 7.8 billion people as of March 2020. (2019)*. Stop and think for a
few seconds, how many people could host our planet? Had you ever thought that? As We can see,
the exponential population growth is a huge threat against the nature sustainability. As humans, we
are consumer animals! Maybe many people don’t think the same, but it is a real threat. Each person,
each child, each old man even each baby needs an electronic device to “live” in the actual world. The
baby would need an electric heat feeding bottle, the children will want the last videogame console,
the adult will surely need a mobile phone or laptop, the old man needs a device to measure his
blood sugar or arterial tension. The manufacture, use and disposal of each electronic device will
contribute to global pollution. The batteries, the screen, the materials that compound those devices
affect on enormous proportions the normal and natural live on earth. If current trends of
technology development and consumerism continues, we would should be able to survive in a
“new world” that would have a limit access to natural resources as water or foods to each person,
all as product of the actual pollution and naturals resources usage to keep our “commodities to live
better”.

I think that this world needs more people who give solutions, not problems. For all of us is easy to
see problems, unconformities or critics, now we need to solve the problem and not to be part of it.
I’ve reading a lot of articles and researches about how could we solve the huge problem of global
pollution, deforestation of the jungle and global heating, among others. The conclusion is that we
don’t have an efficient and quickly solution, the earth is breathing too slow, as a terminal patient
that will die. However, we have a little chance to save our environment, nature, animals and forest.
The main solution is on our hands, in our homes and in our little environment. It is necessary that
each person changes the way that develop their daily routine, I mean, we could reduce the car use
to go to work, gym or shopping. There are other ways to go there, it could be using public
transportation, bike or sharing the car. Another easy solution is to reduce the garbage from our
home, we could recycle many things and materials that could be usable in the future, when you are
visiting the beach, please, don’t throw garbage to the ocean, there are millions of wild lives that give
a perfect balance to our planet.

Other solutions are wherever you want, you can see people asking for governments and polices
solutions, asking for close big companies or protesting because the air quality is defeat by pollution
air. But if those people or each person don’t contribute to improve their little environment, the
solution will never arrive and our planet will continue breathing too slow every day.

Sincerely,

DIEGO ALEJANDRO ALBARRACIN SOTO

*2019 Revision of World Population Prospects. United Nations Department of Economic and Social
Affairs. 2019. Recovering from: https://population.un.org/wpp/

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