Plants and our responsibility
When I talk about responsibility, I talk about how we consume. What we consume here is often produced elsewhere ..... but under what conditions? Slave children in cocoa plantations in Côte d'Ivoire to satisfy our desires, smartphones whose materials are extracted by children in Congo, then children working in production plants in China, rosewood giving rise to illegal trafficking and promoting deforestation in Madagascar, palm oil endangering bio-diversity and exploiting the orang-outang .... The list is long..Here, the goal is not to blame but to raise awareness ... and adopt some solutions:
Ex: refuse products related to crops that favor deforestation. Typically, palm oil and soy.
Choose a reasonable consumption mode that saves natural resources (water, energy, space), the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions (carbon dioxide, methane ...), the end of waste ...
Ne tirons pas trop sur la corde du bambou
Si vous pensez que le bambou est une plante tropicale, sachez que ce n'est pas le cas..; Plus précisément le bambou est un graminée tout comme le maïs. Malgré tout, elle est considérée comme une plante...
Plante aux Mille et une vertus: médicales, artisanales, cosmétiques, nutritionnelles,et utilisé en tant que matériau. Là ou elle se distingue le plus ces dernières années est dans l'industrie du textile. Et pour cause, les textiles de bambou sont largement plus écologiques que les polyesters faits à partir de pétrole. L'argument environnemental tout trouvé, malgré tout, ce n'est pas tant la matière première qui pose problème que sa transformation, son exploitation et les vices cachés...C'est ce que je vous propose de découvrir.
Deforesting to plant palm oil plantations decimates orangutan habitats and forces them to come into contact more often with humans. Deprived of natural fruit, leaf and shoot resources, hungry orangutans fall back on the young shoots of oil palms, putting them in direct danger, with farmers jealously guarding these plantations.
Europe, the world's second largest importer of palm oil with 7 million tons per year.
PALM OIL
Tropical forests are the lungs of our planet and host a great biodiversity.
But every year millions of hectares are destroyed. Giant trees are cut down for the wood and furniture industry, or to make way for huge plantations of oil palm, sugar cane and soya, not to mention gold and copper mines, electrical dams and oil extraction.
Tropical forests are the largest natural pharmacies in the world.
REQUIEM FOR FORESTS
The mangrove has many advantages:
- Naturally filter pollutants (heavy metals and other toxic) contained in seawater:
The different root systems of mangroves contribute to the filtration and retention of pollutants (heavy metals and other toxicants) in the water, as well as the retention of nutrients and suspended solids.
MANGROVE
Rosewood, source of money and lucrative illegal trade in Madagascar. The forest may disappear soon. This precious wood is very popular in China for the manufacture of luxury traditional furniture. Only in Madagascar, the cutting, transport, and export of this wood are prohibited by law since 2010. There is even an international ban on Madagascan rosewood since the uncontrolled rush has caused significant damage in the forests. forests. But despite these bans, traffic continues.