Ambientalista

Miembro de la organización The Climate Reality Project

Mentor de Climate Reality Leadership Corps

Profesor Adjunto de Ciencias del Medio Ambiente de la Universidad Fairleigh Dickinson

The Climate Reality Project / Climate Reality Leadership Corps

Con el ex-vicepresidente Al Gore en el Climate Reality Leadership Training. 11 al 14 de abril de 2024. New York City.

An environmentalist in the making

I lived in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina, for 38 years.

Over the last decades I lived there, I had noticed a rapid change, a weather related change that went from humid and sticky seasons that I remembered during my childhood to the tropical rainstorms and flooding I began to experience in my adulthood.

It caught my attention but I didn’t think too much about it at the time, until I started to learn more and more about the environment. At first I was alarmed about the “Global warming” and the “Greenhouse Effect.” They were empty words by then, I did not understand entirely the severity of the situation.

After my arrival to the US, I took advantage of my background in Medicine and I started to teach related courses in the university.

I also began publishing a local monthly Latino newspaper in my town and once a month I shared some news about the environment. At that time my concern about the environment had grown and I wanted to become more involved. I became a member of several environmental organizations.

One day my supervisors in the university told me that they were looking for some professor to teach a new course, Environmental Science. They asked me if I knew somebody, and I did not hesitate, I told them “I am the person you are looking for.”

Among the tasks that I gave myself to do before starting to teach was to get as much information as possible. I watched “An Inconvenience Truth” and that was a turning point. I made a commitment with myself to be an “environmentalist.”

Fifteen years have passed and I can say today that I am happy about my decision, and I am also proud of my role of teaching the science of preserving and recovering the damaged environment for the benefit of our mankind and the safety of future generations.

Sowing the seeds of environmental knowledge is key if we want to save and feel safe in the only planet that we have, this beautiful Earth that we share.