Environmentalism In Nicaragua

Both images were taken this year during Spring Break or Semana Santa, how we call it back in Nicaragua. I miss the days at the beach, the sun touches my skin, the breeze hitting me with sand, but most of all, I miss the colorful sunsets at the Pacific Coast of Nicaragua. Every time my family and I would make a trip to the beach, I would photograph the sunset and the clouds changing colors. It would be my favourite part of the beach. On that particular day of the week of Semana Santa I photographed the sunsets as I usually do, but had an epiphany since then. These two images made me realize the importance of nature. Nature grants us more than just resources for our basic needs. At the precise moment when I captured the photos, I began to view …show more content…
Nicaragua is one of the poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere with very little interest in the environment. We’re a country that ironically depends our economy on our biodiversity and tourism. There has been so many controversies about environmental policies since the end of the Sandinista revolution. Looking back at these images, I started to realize how in Nicaragua nobody cares about the environment. Everyone liters, companies pollute how much they want, the environmental policies are not enforced, and there are stray animals everywhere in the country. There is no connection nor harmonic relationship between Nicaraguans and nature. As I began my small research, I began to observe at the environment on a bigger scale. In a very brief conclusion, most of Latin America does not care about its environment or they do, but don’t enforce policies until great consequences occur. The biggest example is in the capital of Paraguay. Asuncion, Paraguay had a huge forests and biodiversity. Now, they’re known as the hottest city in the world. This is due to global warming and now they have to deal with the consequences. We can’t toll with the environment because we have no other planet to go live on and start