8th Task: How green are you?

The truth is that I am not an ecological person, in the sense of the person's typical image in bicycle that recycles all that can, and it avoids to damage the environment to all thing. In spite of that yes I consider that I fulfill certain minimum standards that for the fact of living in society should complete, I eat for example, never to throw away garbage in public places.

But I find that it stops our current society, doesn't pay for cost of contaminating, but rather on the contrary, we always prefer that "another" solves the problem. Then we save ourselves a cost, but we generate a bigger cost for the Society and the State.

Although it is certain there is not a lot of education in this respect, since in the school or in your family they can become trained that it is the correct thing" (ecologically speaking), but if the incentives don't exist to act in a certain way, we don't probably act like we should make it.

This lack of interest is born of the example of the behaviors that make other people, because many times although you know that it is not good for the environment throwing away garbage, you think but everybody makes it"… there is Also other causes and they refer to the subjective valuations toward the things, people don't probably value so much to the environment, like they value its time, (time that they can dedicate to work, to rest, to leave purchases, etc) the money, the love, or other you interest. And this problem has practical relevance for example to the moment to decide among walking in bicycle or in automobile, and the excellent thing is that if I value more to the environment I will go in bicycle, but as the truth it is that our lives are limited, and the society imposes us to carry out many activities in little time, we prefer the speed that can provide us an automobile.

If people were rational as they say the books of Economy, would we probably take care more our environment, will the future home of the new generations be since, but apparently the economy yes is right in something, is the homo economicus selfish, and is to be selfish to be rational"…???? perhaps if, perhaps not.