The Factory
Nothing out of normal happened during year 2017, but we
got to know the story of girl named Emily who was from Colorado who lived on a
farm among her parents Chelsea and Roderick. They were members of a very
well-known family in Colorado and were very respected by the people.
At any store of a public place, Roderick and his family
stepped into and they were greeted and treated very nicely. Their routine had
nothing out of normal: at 6: 40 am they would wake up to get ready, in order
for Emily to be at school on time, since classes started at 7: 30 am. Emily
didn’t live too far away from school, she attended the town’s public school for
her classes and then at 3: 30 pm her father would wait for her in order to take
her back home.
Once at home, Emily would start to do her chores. She liked
flowers and nature a lot, so she enjoyed helping her parents on the farm or
with the gardening, which was her mother’s favorite thing to do. She had grown
seeing that was in love with beauty of nature, so she was very involved in that
aspect; moreover, her favorite subject at school was science and that engaged
her a lot more.
One day, some investors were observing and checking the enormous lot from
the family’s property and were expecting to build a factory in that terrain. They
thought it was the perfect place to do it because it was far enough from town,
but they would sell the products in town stores, and it was a very wide space,
so the properties would be far away from each other.
Months passed and the factory started to work, so everything
looked right, nothing changed much, in the moment. But as time passed, the air became lot heavier, and suddenly Emily started suffering from allergies, she
had never had health problems before, but doctors said it was a consequence of
so much exposure to the farming environment. This really bothered her and made
her realize how silently the new neighbor had started to damage their lives.
Little by little, the changes started showing the deterioration: the harvest
started to be smaller, animals began to have problems too, and some even died
after a couple of months. Emily’s family
got aware about this and they
took some measures into their own hands, so they used the power they had in
town to take down the factory.
I took this story as
an example of how we had damaged the environment and ourselves and somehow we
all contribute to the global warming that is affecting us every day. We don’t
pay attention to the problem until we see the repercussions in our daily life,
affecting us in ways that continue to harm either someone else’s or especially
our own health.
This story would have been different if from the start the
factory wouldn’t have been allowed to open in there, but the damaged was done
anyways, so at least we can try to amend it. Why don’t we think like that for
all the damage our beloved planet has suffered from and still we continue
contributing to it “silently, but still we notice its destruction...”
By María Camila Montes, Step 9
