HEROES 2011-2015

(Introd. Voice off) (18”) YFSE has denounced in the last seven years through hundreds of briefs that international scientific experts, the UN, OXFAM and other specialized organization, anticipate a Central American region without forests for the year 2015…. (Director 1) Kathryn Arbenz (30”) Just in the Central American area alone, approximately 44 hectares of forest are felled per hour, without any thought for reforestation or some plan that makes the activity sustainable… If we allow this forecast to become true, the future of Central America will be a desolate one…..The responsibility of achieving a solution is now ours, sine a serious and effective position should have been taken a long time ago, in the face of the magnitude of the crisis in which we find ourselves. (Director 4) Jeremy Ayales (40”) The Central American people live in a region in a desertification process… This process initiated with the indiscriminate felling of forests forty years ago and now we find ourselves before an ecological catastrophe….Of the thirty urban civilizations that preceded us, non has been so brutal and cruel as ours, felling forests and annihilating life in its path….That is why it is convenient that we remember the French politician, diplomat and writer François-René de Chateaubriand when he said….“Forests precede civilizations, deserts….follow them”. (Special screen with quote and picture). (Director 5) Kathryn Arbenz (25”) One could think that there is a lack of interest or indifference before the environmental problems which the world population is going through and that nothing will be done to solve them. However, the social reality is another….Recently, in a sampling carried out in twelve countries, it was noted that 65% of the world population demands from its governments a commitment with the climate agreement and recycling in all its extensions.. (Director 3) Gregory Braibant (40”) The study, denominated Environmental Confidence Index, shows that 7...

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