Manos Unidas Zamora wanted to convey to society how the environmental crisis affects millions of peopleespecially from the Global South, and violate their most basic rights such as the right to food, drinking water, health, a dignified life, a healthy environment, “and thus create a great life.” climate injustice”.
With this new campaign they want to raise their voices to protect the planet, because this is the only way they can fight for human dignity. Under the motto “The Humanity Effect”The aim is to raise awareness that the mistreatment of the planet has greater consequences on the other side of the world, and to highlight the dual power of humans to change it, for better or for worse. Are “the only species capable of changing the planet”.
While Causes of climate change They are mainly linked to the growing economic activity of the most developed countries; its risks, impacts and most serious consequences are borne by the vulnerable peoples of the South, who have contributed little to the emergence of the problem.
Climate change doesn't affect us equally, they say: “While some of humanity is coping with the adversities of climate (there are more resources to mitigate the damage), millions of people are much more vulnerable to the negative impacts of climate change.” According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)“Between 2010 and 2020, human mortality from floods, droughts and storms was 15 times higher in highly vulnerable regions than in regions with very low vulnerability.”
This high vulnerability is reflected in the impact of climate change on the right to food, with prolonged droughts leading to famine Central American Dry CorridorHe Sahel either Madagascar; in the increasing pollution of waters, reducing their availability for human needs and the health of ecosystems; in sea level rise resulting in loss of agricultural land, land erosion, disappearance of traditional fishing grounds and destruction of homes and infrastructure; and in the There is an increase in forced displacement due to all of the above causes, which has already affected more than 800 million people.
For all these reasons, too United hands, The real fight against climate change must come from the conviction that Pope Francis has expressed so often that there is something authentic “ecological debt” between the countries of the north and those of South.
ACTIONS IN ZAMORA
• CAMPAIGN LAUNCH
Thursday, February 8th at 7:30 p.m. in the auditorium
Seminar.
• SNACK OPERATION
Friday, February 9th from 12 p.m. in the Plaza
Castile and Leon
• EUCHARIST
Friday, February 9th at 8 p.m. in the Church of San
Lazarus.
• NATIONAL JOINED HANDS DAY
Sunday, February 11th, at all fairs in Spain, the donation from this day will go to Manos Unidas projects in the poorest countries.