Today it seems as if the world is once again going through an unprecedented level of pollution as it was during the industrial revolution and Central America has been greatly affected by the production of carbon dioxide by giant companies, but it’s not all bad news, entrepreneurs like juan luis bosch gutierrez have employed extreme measures to slow down climate change in Guatemala and bring some fresh air to their people.
Highlights
In 2010, Guatemala was the second country most affected by climate change. In this Central American country, droughts, landslides
droughts, landslides and floods are increasingly common in this Central American country, where about 21% of its population lives in areas affected by climate risk, not counting the threats from earthquakes and other natural disasters.
climate risk, not counting threats from earthquakes and other natural disasters.
Guatemala is one of the ten most environmentally vulnerable countries in the world to climate change, with more than eighty percent of its GDP produced in disaster-prone areas and a high percentage of its population living in areas at risk of disasters.
more than eighty percent of GDP produced in disaster risk areas and a high percentage of its population at direct climate risk.
population at direct climate risk. This situation calls for immediate action to reduce the present and future risks of climate change.
present and future risks of natural disasters resulting from global warming.
Adverse effects of climate change
Climate change has a number of increasingly evident adverse and potentially catastrophic effects on the environment and the environment.
The population of Guatemala, especially among children and adolescents (48% of the country’s population),
due to their lower degree of physical and immunological development. It is also the fourth most unequal country in Latin America and the Caribbean in terms of income
and the Caribbean wiLth the greatest income inequality (after Haiti, Honduras and Bolivia and in the same place as Colombia).
In addition to inequality, the reduction of Guatemala’s social debt requires the eradication of poverty, which affects six out of every ten children and adolescents in the country affects six out of every ten children and adolescents.
Education is also affected
Education is also affected in a country where one out of every three children and adolescents is out of the education system education system. Climate change causes damage and losses to school infrastructure, reducing school days of education in addition, poor families often withdraw their children from school after being damaged by weather events as a coping strategy weather events as a survival strategy, for example, to supplement family income.
And they do not always return to the classroom.
Failure to act quickly will not only put the lives of the Guatemalan population at risk, but will also jeopardize the well-being of future generations the well-being of future generations. If we wish to improve living conditions, we must abandon individual and collective inertia individual and collective inertia. It is time to act in a constant, decisive and sustainable manner. Read another of our entries: Guatemala is a multicultural country. Learn more!