The media reports from yesterday about the terrible fire that consumed at least 60 wooden houses and much of the infrastructure lakeside population of Riosucio (Chocó). Although the news is paradoxical, because people live Riosucio and literally immersed in the water most of the year, fires are not uncommon in the Pacific Coast. Since I have memory, many towns in this region have been affected by heavy fire, starting Quibdó. This fire Not only has the existence of Riosucio the attention of many people in the country, but showed the extreme poverty in the community under discussion.
Coincidentally, the New York Times supplement circulating today with The Spectator, an article on Martin Fackler entitled "What does fall into poverty in societies like Japanese? ".
The article ends with the following paragraph:
"Over 80 percent of those living in poverty in Japan are part of the so-called working poor, who have temporary jobs with low wages, without any security and few benefits. Usually have enough money to feed, but not to participate in normal activities like eating out with friends or watching a movie. "In a prosperous society, poverty is not to live in rags in a dirty floor," said Masami Iwata, a professor of social welfare Women's University Japan in Tokyo. "These are people who have cell phone and car, but are isolated from the rest of society."
The Chocó communities are part of some of the richest ecosystems on Earth's biodiversity, which plays an important role in their cultural characteristics. However, the biodiversity of the forest and the sea are being severely affected ('ecological impoverishment'), with strong effects on survival and identity.
In the case of Japan which is evidenced in the chart above we have called "cultural poverty" or "cultural impoverishment", one of whose Causes and manifestations is affective and emotional impoverishment.
The loss of core values \u200b\u200bsuch as solidarity, reciprocity, sense of belonging and of collective purpose, and sense of identity, is another serious form of "cultural impoverishment" that affect affective and emotional stability.
few years ago (2003), demonstrated that the shocking number of deaths (over 52,000!) Occurred during a strong heat wave that hit Europe , much corresponded to the elderly who had stayed at home alone, while the rest of the family was out of town vacation. became clear that what was attributed to the increase in temperature, it was really lack of human warmth.
Community Portal Oasis, which is dedicated to the entry below, lack of money, but surely it is much richer in terms of solidarity, trust their own abilities and in love, that many companies "rich" in Colombia and the rest the world. That love, my friend says Misael Murcia seeing the pictures, clearly expresses the joy of the houses and plants. I think now that houses are a maximum of two floors ... but in many plants.
MAY 5
The National Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Science in Colombia has just published the report Forensis 2009, according to which "in the country recorded 1,845 cases [of suicide] in 2009 and of this total 844 were between 10 and 29. There were 65 suicidal children. "( Weather - Page 1-5)
" Although suicide has not grown in Colombia in 2009-one of every ten murders, there alarm among the authorities on the profile of people who are resorting to this desperate decision: last year, according to Legal Medicine, nearly half of suicide victims were under 30 years. [...] The majority of suicides are men between 20 and 24, single and basic schooling. Many had problems or drug or alcohol dependency. "
E here a concrete example, with updated data, what we call up cash and emotional impoverishment.
suicide 65 children! This is the generation that will have to start paying bills more expensive climate change. And what strengths and what mood? Cultural adaptation, affective and emotional dimension of the first importance, which rises in the bosom of the family. It is also a dimension which is never spoken. (What penalty put well, but so far I've only heard me touching that subject climate change).
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